HT1535 I was able to manually synch music and video previous to IOS 6

So I've upgrades both my Iphone 4s and Ipad 3 and of course the new itunes 10.7
I can synch but I'm unable to manually drag and drop music and movie file onto my devices. Always has worked in the past now nothing.
I'm using mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro.

Did you check to make sure the Manually manage music and videos option was still enabled from under the iPod's Summary tab in iTunes?
B-rock

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