HT1386 my ipad gets stuck on step 6 everytime when syncing
all i want is for my ipad to contain some songs i just purchased on my macbook but the sync wont complete, just gets stuck on step 6, i have restarted everything multiple times
You can download the songs directly on your iPad for free using the same Apple ID.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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Trying to set up my new iphone 5c using the iTunes back up from my iPhone 4. It keeps getting stuck on step 2 of 5 "syncing calendars" Considering I hardly use the calendar I don't know why it would take so long. (18 hours and counting)
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IPhone sync using iTunes gets stuck on step 3 of 7 syncing calendars
I am getting stuck on step 3 of 7 when syncing my iPhone 4 using iTunes. I have had this happen before with iOS5 but it seemed to sort itself out after I deleted the backup from iTunes 10 > Preferences > Devices > iPhone backup and synced again a couple of times. I recently installed iOS6 and the sync problem has come up again. Apps and contacts seem to backup fine. I have tried deleting the backup and a reset (by holding the sleep & home buttons down) but I still don't seem to be able to get past step 3 of 7 sycning calendars. I noticed that a few users seem to have this problem from time to time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I had it hanging on Calendar sync as well ...
This worked for me:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
I also had crazy dupes of calendar items previously except on my iphone, so the idea was to get the singular calendar of events synced back to my computer. So ...
I made sure Calendar was empty on my computer: ~/Library/Calendars/
Cleared out. Emptied Trash.
Then per above link, cleared sync services from terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync .pl full
Plugged in iPhone, set my prefs again, sync'ed. Went thru the sync quickly and got everything back to normal with only single events.
The key here (on dupes) is to have at least ONE version of your calendar in good shape. And that may be thru your iphone backups.
(sorry I know I switched thread topics, but sync and dupes seem to go hand in hand)
Hope this helps.
Rich
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IPad get stucks on Step 2 (Back up) of sync
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HT1386 my ipad is stuck at syncing data step 6. Wont progress. What is wrong?
i have been trying unsuccessfully to sync my ipad for a month or so. just gets stuck at step 6...syncing data. How do i get it to progress or how do i tell what is making it get stuck?
You can download the songs directly on your iPad for free using the same Apple ID.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store -
HT201253 what do you do when you sync gets stuck at step 3 of 7?
what do you do when you sync gets stuck at step 3 of 7?
i don't know why it happens. but i know how frustrating it can be. the same thing happened to me. i posted a few inquiries in different apple forums and didn't get any ideas of how to fix it. i did however find a solution on my own.
i found that if i did a "restore my ipad" that it fixed it. i was hesitant at first because i was afraid of loosing valuable information. but much to my relief i didn't loose any thing. other than an hour of my time.
this seemed to fixed my problem of being stuck on "waiting for items to copy". my ipad now syncs both wired and wirelessly without any hang ups. however i would suggest that if you are syncing a large amount of data (movies for example) that you do it wired and not wirelessly. i found that it takes a lot longer to sync movies wirelessly.
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when syncing ipad2 to my PC iTunes gets stuck at step 7 of 7 with "waiting for items to copy" - does anyone you know why? The rest of the sync seems okay
i don't know why it happens. but i know how frustrating it can be. the same thing happened to me. i posted a few inquiries in different apple forums and didn't get any ideas of how to fix it. i did however find a solution on my own.
i found that if i did a "restore my ipad" that it fixed it. i was hesitant at first because i was afraid of loosing valuable information. but much to my relief i didn't loose any thing. other than an hour of my time.
this seemed to fixed my problem of being stuck on "waiting for items to copy". my ipad now syncs both wired and wirelessly without any hang ups. however i would suggest that if you are syncing a large amount of data (movies for example) that you do it wired and not wirelessly. i found that it takes a lot longer to sync movies wirelessly.
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Based on what someone else said, I am getting the "rotating ball of eternal sadness". Yup. That about describes it.
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QUESTIONS: I have an iphone 3gs.just updating to ios5. am at the stage where I chose to restore iphone via itunes. sync seems stuck at step 7 of 7: syncing artwork. Is this necessary and if not how do I get around it?
When I use find file http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30073/find-file (which does tend to find files that "Finder" can't), it's not coming up with any other itunes library files that have been modified in the past week, which I know it would have been - unfortunately, I don't have a very recent backup of the hard drive. It would be a few months old so it wouldn't have the complete library on it....any ideas? I'm wondering if restarting the computer might help but have been afraid to do so in case it would make it harder to recover anything...I was looking at this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4211589?start=0&tstart=0 in the hopes that it might have a helpful suggestion but it's definitely a different scenario.
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1) ensure iTunes is authorized for your iTunes store account(s)
2) connect your device and right-click or control-click it in the iTunes Source list, then choose transfer purchases from the shortcut menu that appears.
3) sync the device
iTunes will wipe the iPhone but, since you transferred your purchases in the previous step, your content will be in your library and you can re-populate the iPhone with it.
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My iPad gets stuck...cannot cancel or send message in mail
My iPad gets stuck...cannot cancel or send message in mail
Try closing the Mail app completely and see if it works properly when you re-open the app : from the home screen (i.e. not with the Mail app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Mail app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
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I'm going to wait it out til tomorrow. Or whenever.
The REASON I was synching is that ever since the iOS 5 "upgrade" photos that were in albums synced from iPhoto had disappeared. Not all the photos, just all the photos in some albums. Weird.
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Restore as new.
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