HT1535 When manually syncing, iPhone gets stuck on "preparing to update files"

When attempting to add songs via manual sync, ITunes indicates "preparing to update files" and becomes stuck on this.

Somebody on twitter mentioned temporarily turning off their passcode before syncing and that seemed to help.

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Now I can add no songs at all.

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Anyone else seen this? Adding songs, then it got stuck.

Disconnect the iPod from the computer.
Reboot the iPod
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I have an iphone 4, everything was fine until I updated to iOS 7.1 I believe. Every time I try to transfer a song to my phone it gets stuck on preparing to update forever and it never actually updates anything. When I go to "on this iphone" and search for the songs they appear greyed out. It doesn't matter how many songs I wanna transfer, it takes forever even when it's just 1. I manually manage music. Anybody can help me? This is really frustrating.

Hello there, I'm just a newbie here so please bear with me. I'm 1000% sure it's a compatibility problem between iOS 7.11 and newer models of iphones plus ipod touches. I've encountered the same annoyance many times- ipod touch 5th gen syncs perfectly for an entire month then gets stuck on the dreaded "preparing to update". Please don't hit me for saying this, but the best option is to wait: it once took me literally 15 minutes to get 2 bloody songs on my device- it WILL update eventually. Still, if you (as a perfectly reasonable human being) can't accept that, try re-installing itunes- this has worked for me in the past, but is fairly sporadic, only effective 60% of the time. Finally, I have a hypothesis that has to do with album art- I once sat my arse down and noticed that the "updates" usually ends with a painfully slow "updating files". I also noticed after running some experiments that songs WITHOUT album art sync much, much faster. I highly suggest you try syncing your tracks without the album art, then fixing it on your device, as inconvenient as it is.
I sincerely hope my advice would be of use. Sorry for the useless rambling.

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I connect my iPad 2 (iOS7) to the most recent version of iTunes (11.5) ... and when I try to add songs or video, it gets stuck at PREPARING TO UPDATE.
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Yes I have this problem too.
When I drag my music over to my iPhone, iTunes says "Preparing to update" for a few minutes. There is a spinning wheel on my iPhone, but then iTunes just gives up after a few minutes. The spinning wheel on my iPhone disappears, and absolutely nothing has happened; no files have been transfered, no songs have gone from iTunes to my iPhone.
The only reason I turned iTunes Match off on my iPhone is so that I can quickly add some music to my iPhone to listen to whilst I'm in the shower.
I sometimes need to add music to it that I just created myself and then go listen to it in the shower, car or whilst talking a walk somewhere with my iPhone.
i.e. I don't want to to 2 hours before iTunes Match decides it wants to sync up these freshly made mp3's!! Sometimes Match doesn't even work.... or I have to wait a week!!!!
That's what manually managing songs with iTunes should be for; for when you haven't got an age to wait for Match to decide whether it's going to sync your freshly-added songs or not!!
So many exclamation points but if ever exclamation points were needed it is when describing iTunes and iTunes Match usability!!
It totally *****.
Apple, you should be ashamed of this product.

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I can't seem to update icloud's calendar via my iPhone's calendar. Also, iCal on Mac follows iCloud so when I sync iPhone to Mac it becomes a even more confusing situation...

Pardon my ignorance. I have scoured the forums and no one seem to touch on the exact subject I am talking about.
I can't seem to update iCloud's calendar via my iPhone's calendar with all connectivity turned on (sync,push,pull,slap whatsoever).
Also, iCal on Mac follows iCloud (sluggishly and not due to connection problem, so i'd nice to have a status bar telling me whether or not it's active and doing some updating) so when I sync iPhone to Mac it becomes a even more confusing situation...
Simplified version:
-Events created on the iphone doesnt get on icloud.
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What is selected under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes?
If you have chosen selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres - if Pulp Fiction is available under the Albums section to be selected as an Album to be transferred to your iPhone, is it selected?
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HT1535 When manually syncing, iPhone gets stuck on "preparing to update files"

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