My voice memos don't sync from my phone to iTunes

I Am having trouble syncing my voice memos from my iPhone to my PC. I have flagged the "sync voice memos" in the "sync music" module and that always used to allow my memo recording to come into iTunes on my PC.
Interestingly, when my iPhone is connected to my PC, iTunes doesn't even recognise that there are voice memos on the iPhone.
I Have reinstalled iTunes, and I have the latest update on my phone.
Any suggestions would help as I would really like to bring some lectures I heard and recorded into itunes

First of all what PC type do you have, then what IOS are you running and finally what Itunes are you running.
Oh and if this helps, check it out how to upload voice memos from iphone to iMac.
Kind regards,
Bluestormy

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Ugh!
I've been syncing voice memos from iPhone to iTunes for more than a year with no problems. Now this morning I can't sync the latest one I made last night.
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I thought Apple things "just worked?"
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