ITunes not Opening when iPhone is connected

My iPhone is synced to my home computer (Mac), but I often use my work computer (PS) to charge while at work. Before I was doing this, I had no issues with iTunes and my personal computer, but now when I connect my phone to my personal computer iTunes won't open on its own. I've read on another post that I needed to reinstall iTunes. I reinstalled iTunes, plugged in my phone and it iTunes opened. Problem solved! Two days later problem is back. I know that it can be fixed again by reinstalling iTunes, but I don't want to do this each time. Any help/ideas?

In iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > click Reset warnings and Reset cache buttons.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3927
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ITunes not opening when iPhone connected

Hi
My iTunes used to open and start syncing immediately I connected my iPhone - now it does not.
I've made sure the 'open iTunes when this iPhone is connected' box is ticked, switched off the iPhone and restarted it, restarted my MacBook, reset the sync history, deleted podcasts, restored the iPhone - nothing works.
Is this an iPhone OS 4.1 issue?
I'm running an 3GS iPhone with 4.1, iTunes vers. 10, on a MacBook OS X 10.5.8

I'm having the same issue. There is an "iphone assistant" walk-through page I've gone through but the steps ave not seemed to work for me. I deleted and reinstalled the latest iTunes, but when I plug in... nothing. The most I get is when my iphone is off and I plug in to my mac, it will turn on. No charge.

ITunes *always* opens when iPhone is connected -- Make it go away!!!

Ok, in iTunes 8.2.1, under Devices, I have Disable automatic syncing checked, and under my iPhone's Summary page, Automatically sync iPhone when connected is both unchecked, and for some reason, disabled.
Yet every time I connect my iPhone, iTunes bloody opens anyway. This only seems to have started happening with the last update or two of iTunes. Does anyone know how to stop this... it's driving me and a bunch of other folks crazy.

Hi Jeffery,
Try removing the iTunes Helper Login Item, as Allan suggested in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1888589
-Jason

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I have a 120GB iPod Classic. Has not been jail broken.
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This has happened previously, but I managed to fix it and my content appeared again. When I fixed it before, I was able to get into it via My Computer> etc, but now when I try to open it in windows explorer it says something along the lines of "Please insert storage device into Drive G". After this, it comes up with a window saying "You need to format Drive G: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?"
I can't even delete the folders manually in windows explorer because it's saying it needs to be formatted.
When iTunes finally decides to display the iPod, all it says in the side panel is "iPod" with the 'eject' button next to it. No "Music", "Movies" etc. The screen that comes up says my iPod is corrupted so I need to restore it.
I can't do anything with it. I've also tried to see what I can try to fix with it in disk mode, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Is there any way to solve this problem? I've looked in forums online, but nothing seems to be working or able to do. I've scanned my iPod for any viruses (with Kaspersky Internet Security), and apparently it's clean. I will also be scanning my laptop for anything.
I've had the Classic for three years now. I have the latest iTunes, and I run Vista.

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
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from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take the action that isn't working the way you expect. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Itunes not opening when connected

Although I have the "open iTunes when this phone is connected" option checked on my 3GS - it is not happening. Any suggestions ?

I misunderstood your first post, I thought you had an "iTunes is getting confused" problem, but now I think it is a "Windows recognises the iPod but not Itunes" problem. There is help on that here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
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If you start iTunes yourself and then plug in your iPod, does iTunes recognise it and if so what are your settings in iPod options?
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Both the MacBook Pro and the iPod touch are running the latest OS and iOS available and iTunes is up to date.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
JAClay

Hi again,
I couldn't find the answer to this question when I searched for it using the title, but once I entered the question correct answers from previous users' questions appeared. Seems to be a problem with the search engine...
Anyway, I haven't tried Jolly Giant's solution because the following solution worked before I saw it. Here's how I fixed the problem:
1) Open System Preferences/Accounts,
2) Click Login Items tab,
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4) Leave the Accounts/Login Items window open and navigate to the iTunes application, probably in your Applications folder, then Right or CTRL-Click the application icon,
5) Choose 'Show Package Contents' from the pop up menu,
6) In the new Finder window that opens, open the Contents folder,
7) Then open the Resources folder,
8) Find the file named 'iTunesHelper.app' and drag it to the Accounts/Login Items list,
9) Close all windows and log out of your account, then log back in.
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-JAClay

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I tried resetting the iPod--no change. Restarted computer--no change. Restored the iPod--no change.
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That tab was already checked. In the meantime, I kept looking around.
I found a "run diagnostics" item in the iTunes help menu. I selected "iPhone/iPod connectivity tests." It showed that iTunes Helper was not installed. It linked to a web page that gave more instructions that seemed pretty drastic. So...
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