ITunes freak-out
I just downloaded and installed the latest version of iTunes and now I can't access any songs through iTunes when I plug it into my comp. Everything is light grey and I can't organize or delete or add new songs onto my phone. My only option is to delete and restore. This is new to me. It's never happened with any other i product before. I'd really like to not have to restore my whole 14 gigs of songs. Thanks
Me too - any solutions greatly appreciated.
Ever since I upgraded to iTunes v8 there have been weird little problems. Is it possible to install an old version of iTunes until Apple get their act together?
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Bought a new iMac in November and finally got around to backing up my iPad to it. All software is up to date on both, but when I plug my iPad into the computer it starts freaking out. On the iPad, a message pops up about trusing or not trusting the computer, however it flashes multiple times on the screen and I can't hit trust. Also, the battery icon flashes charging/not charging. Really, the whole screen keeps flashing. On the computer (screen shot attached) this pops up. I hit continue and then the second picture pops up. To top it off, once I unplug the iPad I literally had to click "Ok" in the second picture 37 times before it went away. I've owned three iPads and 4 or 5 Macs over the years and have never had something like this happen. I can't connect via wifi either. I have tried restarting the computer and iPad. I have not tried another lightning cable because I do not have one. The cable I have works fine if I plug it into the wall to charge it. Oh yeah, I also tried using all of the USB ports on the computer.
I'm running an iPad with Retina (Model MD511LL/A) wifi 32gb on iOS 7.0.4, a 27" iMac with OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 and iTunes 11.1.3
Any ideas? Thanks!
I hit continue, and this comes up every time.
Notice how it says iPhone instead of iPad? I have to hit ok multiple times after I unplug the iPad. If I leave it plugged in, this does not go away.Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.) No data/files will be erased.
Not normal. Take it to an Apple Store for evaluation.
Make a Genius Bar Reservation
http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
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Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
I wasted about 1.5 hours with Apple on this issue. It all started happening after I updated to the latest version of iTunes. I haven't been able to sync my iPhone 4 in 1 month and am freaking out about possibly losing my pictures, video, text messages and music.
Windows XP user.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1If might be helpful if you actually told us what the problem is.
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I owe iTunes money I am freaking out!!!! Please help
If I owe iTunes money can I pay it back when i can? I don't have the money right now. Im freaking out about this. And can you pay it back will an itunes card?? Please I didn t mean for this to happen it was an accident. Oh ya i live in the USA
Yes, you can take all the time that you need. They will not do anything other than wait for you to pay. Your account will not be closed nor will it go into collections.
You can pay it back with an iTunes card or any way you wish including prepaid credit cards. -
Help meeeee.... iTunes is freaking out!
ITunes keeps locking up (spinning beachball) whenever I:
1-try to eject my nano
2-Try to quit iTunes
3-My finder freezes too sometimes
I also cannot add music to my nano without it freaking out: beachball spins for an eternity. I've had tp manually shut down my computer several times. I've had to pull my iPod out when it says "do not disconnect." I tried TP2GO's solution here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1239525#1239525
But when the screen came up from booting with COMAND S held down, it kept timing out every 5 seconds and I simply did not have a chance to type in /sbin/fsck -fy as I he directed.
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I keep my iTunes music folder on an external. Recently I noticed some songs were not being saved there, so I manually moved them and then i went into iTunes preferences and confirmed that my music was still being saved to that folder. It was....I think.
Ever since, I've had lots of problems.
Can anyone help????
PowerMac G4 DP 1.42, 2 GB DDR, 120/160 GB internal HDs, 250/350 GB external HDs Mac OS X (10.4.6)Hello. Is there anyone there?
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ITunes 7.1.1 freaking out on coverflow view
Like the subjact says, I downloaded 7.1.1 last night, and now when I go into coverflow view (windowed or full screen), when the mouse is over the window, it starts freaking out and counting down (jerkilly, not smoothly) all the way back to the first album.
Does anyone know what the problem is?Philip Henry,
What type of mouse do you have, it should say on the bottom?
Can you test with another mouse?
Thanks,
Generik -
Hi Guys,
I am using the full width video widget on a site. The widget was working perfectly however I have just added additional content to the site and re-uploaded and now the video is not working! Please help I have tried everything and am freaking out as this web-site has been payed for by my client.
AlexMany thanks.
With those symptoms, I'd try the following document:
Apple software on Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
(If there's a SpeedBit LSP showing up in Autoruns, it's usually best to just uninstall your SpeedBit Video Accelerator.) -
[N97 mini] phone freaks out when I want to pick up...
Is there some sort of workaround, tweak or app available that can prevent my phone from freaking out when I want to receive a phone call? It is simply impossible to see who is calling because the display will not display anything for a few seconds when it's rotated. It is also not possible to use the slider keys to pick up or decline the call. Is there some way to prevent the display from rotating without disabling auto rotating all together?
1. iTunes Menu > Store > Authorize This Computer
2. iTunes Menu > Store > Sign in
3. iTunes prefs > Devices > Prevent .... from syncing automatically
4. With iTunes open, connect phone
5. iTunes Menu > File > Devices > Transfer Purchases
6. iTunes Menu > File > Devices > Backup
Now safe to sync. You will lose any music/media on the phone that was NOT purchased from the iTunes Store (i.e. ripped CD's, MP3's from other sources) -
FREAKING OUT HERE!! videos not playing in 4.0.3
I have a major presentation to give in 3 hours and I am having a MAJOR freak out here. I've had trouble with movies not playing properly before (black screen with just the audio playing) but either clicking on the 'Allow Expose, Dashboard....' button in preferences, or reloading them (insert, choose) has fixed the problem. Now nothing seems to work. Tried rebooting the machine, even trying to play a single movie in a new document. Nothing. I'm sunk if I can't get this wretched program to work very very soon. HELP ANYONE!!
What's the format of the videos? Do they play in QuickTime, iTunes?
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Freak-out after system restoration
Hi everybody! This is my first post here, you all seem very helpful and I hope you can help me because I'm freaking out a little.
This summer, my hard drive and motherboard got fried and replaced. Happily, I had everything backed-up on an external hard drive, it was just geographically far from me. I just got back to it (about a month later), and successfully restored all my missing files and apps. The only catch is now I can't find anything I had saved during that month between hard drive replacement and restoration, including some pretty important photos. Is there somewhere I'm not looking? Or did I do something horribly wrong? Any help you can throw my way would be incredibly appreciated.
Thanks!
SaraHey guys, thanks for the quick responses. I was out of town for the weekend, and now I'm back and freaking out less but still curious. To answer/clarify some points:
How did you backup your stuff to an external HDD?
Did you use a backup utility? If so, which?
I used Apple's "Backup" application, which I had to download again to access my info off of the hard drive.
Did you backup/clone the entire HDD, the Users Folder or individual files?
I backed up my users folder, a few applications I don't still have the installation disks for, and my Word, Photoshop, itunes, and iphoto library folders, I believe.
So, both the HDD and the logic board were replaced. Right? In other words, same computer, only >now with replaced logic board and HDD?
Yep. Exactly.
successfully restored all my missing files and apps.
How? What method did you use?
I found basically the instructions how to do it in Backup Help, except for some probably critical information. It told me to click on the links below for restoring files to iphoto or itunes, except those links didn't exist anywhere.
In retrospect, I think I figured out what I did wrong. They give you two options, one involving replacing missing files and the other involving overwriting files. I took that to mean that if any duplicate files existed on both my computer and the hard drive, it would replace the existing ones with those from the hard drive. However, I think it really meant that it overwrote all of the information on my computer with the information being imported from the hard drive. If this is really what I did, can any of that information be retrieved?
OK, so after the HDD was replaced you were working on the computer and saved some photos on >it, is that right? Then, since you restored your backed up data you cannot find those photos and >other stuff you saved before restoring the old data, is that right?
Yep. That's this gist of it. I hope this info clarifies my possible boneheadedness. Thanks again for the help.
Sara -
can i connect a external hard drive to apple tv 3 generation, for see my movies itunes with out use streaming or icloud? in apple tv 3 and 2?
That i want to know is i can connect a external hard drive to apple tv, for see my movies that i keep in my external hard drive, i dont want to see then whit the streaming and icloud, or used my laptop o pc for access de movies and stuff.
i put iny spanish to, because i feel my english is not so good, but i hope you understand me.
if i can´t connect a external hard drive, wich others media players divices you know that can see itunes movies?
¿quisiera saber si se puede conectar una memoria externa al apple tv, para ver el contenido de itunes que tengo guardado en esa memoria como peliculas, ect?
lo que no quiero es usar la icloud, o el servicio streamig para ver mi contenido, ni tener que usar la computadora para ver mi contenido el la tv?
y de no poderse conectar que otros dispositivos media pleyer conoces para ver peliculas de itunes en la tv?Welcome to the Apple Community.
can i connect a external hard drive to apple tv 3 generation
Unfortunately not. -
My Ipod touch is freaking out!
This just started happening about a week ago...it seems to be ok when you first turn it on, but after a few moments..it freaks out. For instance, my keyboards--with whatever app, beit email or notes or a game..I try to type a letter--it types everything BUT that letter. And none of the erase buttons work to go back. On the Music--I keep trying to go to Playlists and it keeps flipping to Artists and pursues its own songs! Sometimes I don't even have to touch the Ipod--I just get my finger near it and it picks up the button it thinks I'm trying to touch and goes to whereever! It's like its possessed! It will cut in the middle or beginning of a song and go to whatever other song. It's not on shuffle or genious or whatever...I did a full reset by holding down the two buttons, but that only temporary fixes it. I can't type anything on it because it presses its own letters uncontrollably. Please help..this is a brand new Ipod I just got for Christmas. I didn't get it wet, I've been very careful with it. I do not want a refurb! I have lots of stuff on this 32G! :((
Basics from the manual are restart,reset, restore:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPod_touch_3.1_UserGuide.pdf -
I just finished using iTunes, closed out and then tried to get ack in. Got this message "The iTunes library .9tl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file." How can I get back ino iTunes ?
I actually figured it out...I had to go to the iTunes Library Extras.itdb file and give myself permission to have full control. THEN, I could go and estore a previos version. Once I had done this, I got the same message for iTunes Library Genius.itdb . . . I did the same thing with it and Voila'!!
Hope this helps...
SVT -
So, I have had an Ipod touch (fourth generation) for a little less than a year now, and I have never had any problems with it until the latest version of itunes came out. Now, my ipod never can sync (I left it up for an hour before and it only got to step 2 out of 7), and I can't add any more music to my ipod! To make it worse, about 100 songs that I had deleted off my ipod, but could still be found in my itunes library, appeared again on my ipod! But, they are grayed out and I can't listen to them so they just take up space.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device. -
Can find my iPhone be turned on remotely? I had it turned off, and twice in the last month I've found that it is turned on and someone was tracking my location. I'm a little freaked out! Is there any way that someone could be turning "find my iPhone" on remotely? I was under the assumption that the only way to turn the service on was from my phone itself.. Is there any way that my phone is somehow resetting itself to a time when the app was turned on? I'm just grabbing straws here... I have no idea. I just know that the location arrow came on at the top of my phone, and it showed that someone was tracking my phone at that very moment... Any help would be appreciated!
Welcome to the Apple Community.
Find my phone can only be enabled from the device itself.
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