My itunes freezes when I sync my Itouch

HELP! My itunes account freezes at step 3/3 determining tracks to sync, whenever I plug in my itouch 2nd generation. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling itunes and I don't know what to do! I can't call tec support because my warranty is expired. I did download some youtube to mp3 files onto itunes but it worked after I did that so I don't know why that would be the problem. I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions on how to get my account to stop working!
Thank you!

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My itouch use to work fine but recently when I connect my itouch, itunes will freeze and not respond. When I disconnect the itouch, itunes will unfreeze and work fine. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling itunes as well as completely reseting my itouch. Neither have solved this problem. Please help.

I just had this problem also. While I was searching for a solution, I left the ipod plugged in to the computer (with iTunes spinning it's ball of doom) - eventually (after five minutes or more) iTunes started to sync to the iPod, and now all is well.
Only thing I'd done with the ipod recently is download a bunch of stuff from AppStore...
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Itunes freezing when I connect my itouch

Hi there
So I've had an itouch 32gig for a month or so and its been fine up until this week. Now whenever I try to connect it to itunes it seems to lock up \ freeze itunes. The ipod is fine. It shows on the screen that it is recharging when connected via usb but it locks itunes.
As least it locks itunes for approx 98% of the time. On a rare occasion itunes will recognise the ipod and try and synch, although the synch can be very slow and eventually just lock up. I'm running V2.2 on the itouch and have re-installed itunes for a second time today but there has been no change.
If I remove the itouch from the usb connection, itunes unfreezes and works fine again. But connecting the too together is close to impossible!
Argggg, can aony one suggest some ideas here of whats going on and how to fix?
thanks

Sounds exactly like the problem I had with my iPod Touch. I found the problem to be corrupted applications on the iPod Touch itself. Try this and let us know if it works for you too. Perhaps it's the solution for many frustrated iPod Touch owners.
1. Diconnect your iPod Touch
2. Open iTunes
3. From the menus click 'Edit' => 'Preferences'
4. Click the 'Device' tab
5. Select 'Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods' and click 'OK'
6. Connect your iPod Touch
7. Click on your iPod device after it appears under 'Devices' in the left panel of iTunes (this may take upto 20 minutes depending on the severity of your corruption)
8. Click on the 'Applications' tab
9. Ensure 'Sync Applications' is selected
10. Click 'Selected Applications'
11. Deselect all of your applications
12. Click 'Apply' - This will sync your device and remove all of your applications from the iPod Touch. When the sync is complete, disconnect your iPod Touch
IMPORTANT - On your ipod Touch you may find some application icons that were not successfully removed. This is because they have some level of corruption. Don't worry, this is a good sign. Continue on.
13. On your iPod Touch hold down one of these icons until all of the icons begin to wiggle
14. Those icons showing the small 'X' in the upper left-hand corner should be deleted by touching the 'X' on the icon
15. Delete each of these applications one at a time - Don't worry they'll come back after you sync with iTunes again
16. Once they are all deleted, power off the iPod Touch by holding down the power button on the top of the device for about 4 seconds and sliding the red arrow to the right
17. Wait about 60 seconds or so
18. Turn the device back on by pressing the same power button for about 1 second
19. Now reconnect the iPod Touch to iTunes
20. Click on your iPod device after it appears under 'Devices' in the left panel of iTunes
21. Click on the 'Applications' tab
22. Ensure 'Sync Applications' is selected
23. Ensure 'Selected Applications' is still selected
24. Select each application you want transfered back to your device - Select just a couple this time around as you can add the rest in later syncs
25. Click 'Apply' to sync these applications to your iPod
26. Disconnect you iPod Touch
27. Confirm the applications you selected are available on the iPod Touch
28. If application corruption was your problem then future sync process should return to it's normal speed - which will feel super fast!
Let us know how it goes.

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Yesterday all my music, photos, and video vanished from my 60 gb iPod. Naturally I tried to re-sync, but ITunes freezes every time I plug it in and immediately unfreezes when I unplug. The error message says "The iPod cannot be synced. The required folder could not be found." I went into preferences and checked "prevent devices from syncing automatically," but the iPod still tries to sync when I plug it in and it is impossible for me to adjust any settings within ITunes.
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- Try a reset. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- Try just backing up the iPod by right clicking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and select Back Up. If successful then you can restore the iPod.
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