Restore new ipad air from iPad 2 backup
I backed up my ipad 2 to iTunes by USB cable with no problem a month ago. I bought a new iPad Air and want to restore it from the old iPad backup. When I connect the new Air by USB to my iMac (late 2012), running 10.8.5, with iTunes open, no device shows up, and a window says that iTunes cannot connect to the device "Peggy's iPad" because the device timed out. The operating system and iTunes version are the same as when I made the backup from my old iPad. What happened?
If you don't have teh most current version of iTunes, you probably will not be able to sync the iPad Air.
Also, from the error message you give, it sounds to me like it's trying to sync via wifi and not via the cable, is this how your iTunes is configured for the new iPad Air? I have no issues syncing my iPad Air to a MacBook Pro running Mavericks (OS X v10.9) using the USB cable, although I did intentionally set mine up as a new device rather than as a restore of my iPad 2 backup...
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