Phone will not sync with iTunes (5 and 6)

I posted this about a month ago and didn't get any help. Maybe a second time around will do the trick. Below is the original question. I don't want to keep restoring my phone to factory settings in order to sync music, so any other insight would be helpful. Thanks.
Hi - I'm sure this is more of a software or iTunes question but whenever I connect my iPhone to my computer, iTunes for some reason won't sync at all with my iPhone. I noticed this when I had the iPhone5 and recently upgraded to an iPhone6. I tried importing music and photos but it will just not work. I also tried checking sync w/ wifi and sync selected songs and photos only, but it won't even go as far as saving those settings on my iPhone. My iTunes indicates that it is syncing for about 1 second and then it'll go back to normal like nothing happened. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! By the way I am currently running mac os x version 10.6.8. My laptop is a little outdated and won't let me update iTunes or my software to a more recent version. Unless I'm being naive and missing something else here.
Thanks again,
Gerardo

I was able to fix a problem where iTunes 12.01 would not recognize my iPhone or iPad but the device WAS recognized in iPhoto.
Another website gave me the hint to download and re-install iTunes.  I did this and it worked.  (I also restarted both the Mac and iPhone and iPad afterward for good measure). 
Here is the URL for download:
http://www.apple.com/in/itunes/download/

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