How Does One Fix The Error "The iPhone cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-54).

I recently got a new computer along with a new iPhone 5S, and downloaded iTunes to the computer today. As I tried to sync my library to my iPhone to get all the music on there, I received an error message after a little bit stating "The iPhone (Name) cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-54)." After doing some research on this error, I found out that it had to do with files being locked and things of that nature, but I don't really understand that whole concept. So if someone who understands would help me through this error step-by-step, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Error -50 is a very unhelpful generic communications error with a number of possible causes.  Something between the drive to which you are downloading and the drive from which it is all coming is not working correctly, which probably leaves several hundred options.

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