ITunes will NOT sync with my iPhone 3G
Hello
I've performed a CLEAN Restore on my iPhone and I did not restore data.
I've installed my 86 applications and used a few of them. I've decided that I want a "backup" incase i need to restore my iPhone and I don't want to lose my text messages.
So I plug my iPhone into my MacBook USB port using the Apple supplied USB cable. iTunes detects my iPhone and I click SYNC.
iTunes indicates that it's syncing but after waiting 48 hours, iTunes cancels the Sync and tells me that there was a problem with 100 items. At this point, I realize that iTunes for some reason forgot that my machine is already authorized to play the iTunes content so I have to deauthorize it then reauthorize it.
Then I perform another Sync and this time iTunes skips backing up and says "Syncing with <name of phone>..." and it doesn't do anything.
I restart the MacBook and the iPhone 3G and try again but same message.
I look into the preference pane and then view the backup list and I don't see ANYTHING that is even close to 8/26/2008. I find my other iPhones on the list but not the one in question.
What can I do to back it up?
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