IPod won't sync "too many files currently open"

Every time I try to connect my iPod there is an error that says "cannoy sync iPod too many files currently open." I'm not sure what this means because I only have iTunes open and it still will not sync. Please help! Thanks!

I had the same problem. I just turned off my shared playlists and restarted my itunes. it worked after that

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I'm working on a 60 pg. document, and when I hit 'save', I get this annoying msg.:
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Copy and paste your entire Word text into the TextEdit window. Save the TextEdit document to the desktop. Now that you've at least gotten your work saved, you can try some other things.
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If you've managed to at least save your file as a rich text TextEdit document, then shut all of your applications down and restart your Mac. Launch Word and open the TextEdit file. You may lose some formating if you've done tables or other things TextEdit can't save in Word's original form.

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I have been trying to sync my Ipod with Itunes and I keep getting an error message that says basically it can't sync because the files or directory has become corrupted and unreadable.
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Performance tip: Keep the Desktop clutter-free (empty, if possible)
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Iphone syncing, Keep gettting error cannot sync to many files open currently

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After reading many suggestions, like turn off sharing etc. I discovered why iPod-iTunes sync is suddenly not working.
Too many push notifications!
When a application is installed you are often asked "do you want push notifications?", to which most answer "yes". However, each time an app. uses-up resources.
Solution: Go the iPad/iPhone notifications and turn the least useful off.
(Turning off sharing might work when you have almost enough resources left!)
Paul

I moved my music from the c drive to the d drive. All of my music is in itunes but my ipod won't sync with itunes. The syncing process is taking much longer than usual too. I left my ipod over night to sync and it didnt finish. Fails to sync every time.

I moved my music from the c drive to the d drive. All of my music is in itunes but my ipod won't sync with itunes. The syncing process is taking much longer than usual too. I left my ipod over night to sync and it didnt finish. Fails to sync every time. I tried to restore my ipod and it didnt help.

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I havent had any trouble syncing my ipod until last week when i purchased a song. When i dragged the song to a playlist on my ipod, it appeared grey in my playlist (because it was still loading) and then disappeared. I repeated this until i gave up and I reported this as an issue to itunes. When i tried again it worked and i thought maybe the problem had fixed itself, but i tried to add a CD to my ipod a few days ago and it only synced half of the songs. Now when i try to sync the leftover songs an error box pops up saying "The iPod (name of ipod) cannot be synced. Required file not found."
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When the iPod shuts down and you get the error message, quickly click through the dialog boxes on iTunes so when the iPod comes back up iTunes will attempt to sync again.
When the sync starts again after the iPod reboot, click the little X in the bar that shows how many tracks have been loaded. This will stop the sync and you'll be able to eject your iPod.
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