Ipad gets stuck in "backing up" during sync. How do i get sync to work?
I updated my version of Itunes. I plugged in my Ipad to sync and it also needed an update to its software. It extracted the software and then moves to "backing up", but gets stuck for hours w/ only appx. 5% of back up complete. I have cancelled sync and tr-tried this several times and the result is the same. I deleted the old back ups. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? Itunes is version 10.4.0.80. Version on Ipad shows 4.3.3
thank you
This happens to me often. I am unable to pin down what exactly causes it but I have discovered how to get it to sync. I delete the iPad backup from within iTunes and then hard reset it (by holding the top button and home button until the screen turns off) and then I force quit iTunes. I then restart iTunes and plug in the still-turned-off iPad allowing the connection with iTunes to boot up the iPad. From here, the sync will almost always work, albiet after a long backup process. This is normal, I believe, because iTunes needs to rebuild the iPad backup from scratch. By the way, I'm assuming you're on Mac OS X. I have no idea if this would work in Windows.
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