Strange Sync Problems

I had purchased new music via itunes through my new Mac laptop, and some from CDs. In the past, i had it hooked up to my desktop PC. I had to sync my ipod on my laptop to get the music i recently got. I did that, and now ALL but 11 songs have been removed from my ipod. I do not understand how or why this even happened. I have no idea how to get all these songs i had purchased back onto my ipod either.
Does anyone know how to get all my music back? I have no idea, and i am very very upset because of this.

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Exchang, Mail, Ical - strange sync problem

Hi
I have a very strange problem... i guess.
After installing Snow Leopard both on my MacBook Pro and my Imac I've set up Exchange 2007.
It all works just fine on the MB, both mail and calendar. Downloading mails and syncing my calendar events. I can also subscribe to my co-workers calendars, all good.
However, on the Imac it's downloading my mail, and syncs with my calendar, but I cant subscribe to my co-workers calendars, and I can't find any differences in the setup in Ical. It wont even show which calendars that's available...
Is there anybody who had similar problems? :o/
Kind Regards, Michel

Here is what I would do, as a test.
1) Check to see if you selected within iCal's preference the "Show Birthdays calendar" option. If so, close the preferences window, select the Birthdays calendar and Export to your drive (Desktop) for backup. Then return to iCal preference and uncheck the Birthdays calendar option.
2) Create a new calendar named Test (or whatever you choose other than Birthdays). Create a bogus all-day event for the new calendar like you would have for someone's birthday in the Birthdays calendar, and place it on a day that you have one of your appointments.
3) Sync to your phone and see the results. If the events show up correctly on your phone, then return to iCal and change your new calendar's name to Birthdays, create another all-day event on the day of a current appointment and again sync with your phone.
4) If this too is correct on your phone after synching, then the culprit would be the iCal's Birthdays setting. I would then leave this option off and then import the backup export I made in step 1 into my new Birthdays calendar.
5) Once again sync w/ the phone to see if the issue is gone. If so, you have your workaround.
If not, or if during any of the other steps the issue arose, I would say the problem lies within your Nokia or maybe even another calendar. That be the case, somewhat repeat the steps above in creating a new calendar, exporting the "bad" calendar, test a new entry in the new calendar to sync w/ your phone, and if successful, import the "bad" calendar's data into your new calendar to see if that is successful.
A bit of work, but it just might resolve your issue. Good luck and I look forward to seeing if it works.
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Very strange syncing problem

My syncing has not been working properly for a few days - mainly events from iphone not appearing on iCal on my iMac. This morning the problem got much weirder. I entered an event in iCal - a meeting for 9.00am. I then had the meeting confirmed for later and edited the initial entry, making the time 9.30. My phone had not been connected to the computer while this was happening. But then I synced my iphone and appearing on the phone were both the 9.00am meeting entry and also the 9.30am entry - in different calendar colours. Just the 9.30 meeting was on the Mac when the sync took place - what's going on???

Yes, only using MobileMe would leave an entry in the log.
Did you try to replace the calendar info on the phone with the one on the computer (info pane, advanced section) and try to sync a new entry after that?

Strange syncing problem with iPhone 3GS

I've got 2 user accounts on my windows box, one for me and one for my sister. Both of us have 3GS's. I can sync my phone and transfer music to it without any issues.
I haven't synced my sister's phone in quite some time. I plugged it in last night, and iTunes pulled down all her music, contacts, and applications. So far so good. I noticed, however, that I could not drag any music to her phone. Normally with mine, I can drag music straight from windows explorer right to my phone, or I can drag it to my library music folder, and then I can drag it to my phone.
Even worse, after it synced her phone, all the music was gone from her phone (fortunately, it seems to be safe on the computer; she tends to do everything from the phone and hardly uses iTunes). However, her contacts and applications were all still on her phone.
Her phone is "authorized" on her account.
I'm using iTunes 9.0.2.25, and both phones are running 3.1.2.
Any ideas, or further bits I can tell you guys to aid in assistance?

Was the phone unlocked prior to updating, and if so, how?

Strange audi sync problem & different, stranger video sync issu in sequence

I have two strange occurances with one particular set of media that was downloaded from the same original source mini-dv (recording in dvcam) tape. I have not found the same issue on any other footage.
1) when the media is imported into FCP, the audio is out of sync. it is slightly out at the beginning and then gets progressively worse.
2) when this footage is used in a sequence, the video that show in the sequence is not the same as the video that is exported when this sequence is exported as QT movie (or any other export option) Like the audio the video out of sync gets progressively worse.
- The original media is perfectly in sync looking at the digitized source ie: in Quicktime. There is no audio out of sync problem.
- the only difference I could see in the file was that this media is 3.5mb data rate whereas all the others are 3.6mb.
- other tapes from the same camera do not have a problem
- I do all my downloading from a firewire deck and not from the camera
- I upgraded from 6.0.1 to 6.0.4 (as did the QT 7.5 upgrade also) to see if that fixed the problem but to no avail.
Very perplexing. I managed to work around this problem in a sequence whos deadline was looming by manually slipping the footage in the sequence the required number of frames. This is where it also gets odd. I was able to do this by
- double click the clip in the sequence which then loaded that into the viewer.
- position the playhead at the beginning of the clip
- from the canvas select the go to position in master clip option which then loaded the masterclip into the viewer. the position in the masterclip was always the correct frame (ie the frame I expected to see as per my edit). The frame showing in the canvas was also the correct frame (but this would not be the case when exported)
- the next thing i did was to use the slip tool, as soon as i held the slip tool over the sequence clip, the frame in the canvas would be the wrong frame (the frame i would see when I exported).
- then i would just carefully slip the sequence clip back to the matching correct frame. So watching in the viewer, I would align the frame that showed in the viewer to the frame in the canvas.
When done the frame showing in my sequence would be a completely different frame but when exported, the frame that I expected to see would be the exported frame.
I could find no logic to the amount I needed to slip each time (I am sure there is logic but I couldnt figure out what that was). the clip at the end of the footage needed to be slipped -10:09, and this got progressively smaller to the clip at the beginning of footage needing to be slipped -:16
Hopefully that wasnt too confusing.

btw, i have tried recapturing the footage and i have offlined it, copied it to another location and onlined it in the new location to no avail. still have the sync and video in sequence issues.

Major "BUG" in Imovie 9 - Audio Sync Problem on Export !

Well I'm a hard-core Apple user from day one, but unfortunately today I'm not to proud about the latest version of Imovie 9.
It seems there has been a "MAJOR audio sync problem on export" in Imovie 9, since July 2009. Apple knows about this bug for a long time now, but didn't release any bugfix yet!
Here's what it's all about:
It seems if you use the (custom /manual) speed-adjustments and not the preset slider speeds, you will experience (after exporting your movie) annoying bursts of audio from clips that had been set to mude. The strange thing is that you will only experience this audio-bug after exporting, you will NOT experience it in the project playback mode!
Here's what you can do:
Find ALL the clips in your Project that are Speed Adjusted.
Instead of using a "Custom Speed" percentage, use any of the "Preset Speeds"
Preset Speeds on the Slider = 12.5%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%, 400%, 800%
Then, export your project as usual.
No more sync issues.
Really hope That Apple will come up with a real BUGFIX soon.
It's a shame that a major bug in a otherwise GREAT PRODUCT, hasen't been fixed yet!
What's wrong with Apple?...this is not one of their finest hours.
Still A BIG fan from Imovie HD,...I'll chance to Imovie 9 when the bugs are finaly fixed!

This is TERRIBLE! I have spent so much time working on this project, and I really don't want to adjust the speed settings to the preset levels, BECAUSE I need to motion of the video to match certain musical points. I can't re-film my video, and I needed this project done TODAY. I made a music video with some kids at summer camp, and today is the last day- the day we were supposed to all watch it together, and now, I've got NOTHING!!!! (Because I can't export it without all those glitches!)
I am MAJORLY DISAPPOINTED on this one. I've made movies in windows movie maker before, and purposely used imovie, because you know, everything on macs is supposed to be better. Well, I guess I was wrong.

How to solve sync problem between Outlook calendar and iPhone when reminder is set to _some_ non-standard values?

Hi,
I am having a sync problem between my iPhone/iPad and Outlook calendar events (Outlook 2010).
Here is the description of the problem:
1. In Outlook - please create a new event/appointment (e.g. "Test").
2. Reminder is set by default to 15 minutes. You can change it by using a dropdown menu - please select: "0,5 days".
3. Click on "0,5 days" and change it manually to "14,5 days".
4. Click on "Save & Close".
5. (Do not snooze or dismiss the reminder.)
6. Sync with your iPhone/iPad.
7. Open this new event on iPhone/iPad - you can see that alert is set to "15 minutes before" instead to a correct value that was set in Outlook.
The same problem can be seen if you set the reminder to e.g. "3 weeks" (standard value is "2 weeks").
However, it is interesting that non-standard values like "1,5 days" (and all other until "13,5 days") are synced without any problem.
Does anyone have a solution how to solve this problem (different than the trivial solution of not using those strange values)?
Thanks!

Thanks to another post (https://discussions.apple.com/message/17501071#17501071) I reset the sync history, here is what to do:
Launch iTunes.
Before you hook up your iPhone to the PC and iTunes do this: Go to iTunes Edit menu > Preferences… > select the iPhone > click the Reset Synch History button > click OK.
Connect the iPhone to the PC and let iTunes recognize it.
In the top right corner is the iPhone icon, click on the left side of the iPhone icon > the iPhone menu launches.
In the menu along the top click on Info > make your selections > click Sync button > it gives you a dialog at the top with the steps it’s going through during the sync.
In the top left of the iTunes app > click Exit.

Premiere removes black footage on import causing audio sync problems.

Hello,
Strange problem at the moment. I've exported DSLR footage and audio from Premiere as H.264 - works fine - its my usual export and one I'm allways happy with for most uses. No sync problems, but some black footage (or blank footage).
When I import this into Premiere again, the black footage seems to be removed and thus the audio is completely out of sync. Any thoughts?

I'm inclined to say observer/operator error here. I don't believe it's possible for PP to do as you claim, so I'm skeptical of your conclusion.

Notes syncing problem

Mini ipad 7.1; Mail 4.6; iTunes 11.4; Mac os x 10.6.8 notes syncing problem
I type a lot on my ipad. Some of them I update daily.
Problem:
Mail only sync SOME notes, not all, randomly. (Strange)
The ones that synced, sometimes get updated sometimes don't, in Mail. (Strange)
I don't sync with icloud or whatever. I just click sync on iTunes.
Tried creating a test note from the Mail app. Works, but a second sync creates a duplicate note. Delete one of them, edit the note from ipad, doesn't sync anymore.

Plug ipad to my mac. Open itunes. Click sync. Open mail. Some new notes created in ipad are in mail, but not all notes.
No additional software. No updates nor upgrades.
Changes on device:
Created new notes, click sync on itunes. No new notes in mail. Days or weeks later, sync again in itunes, some new notes visible in mail but not all new.
Allow me to repeat again:
Mail only sync SOME notes, not all, randomly.
The ones that synced (which I update in ipad), sometimes get updated sometimes don't, in Mail.
Tried creating a test note from the Mail app. Works, but a second sync creates a duplicate note. Delete one of them, edit the note from ipad, doesn't sync anymore.

FCP: AUDIO SYNC PROBLEM

i have audio sync problem -- of the finished product which didn't have that problem before. does anyone know how this could have happened? in my earlier posting, there was a warning window which i played around w/ and now i have an audio sync problem in my prior projects.
please help me.

The Reels, are indeed the 5 surround channels. I have a feature that is broken up into 8-10 minute sections. I did this because the composer was using a G3 at the time and couldn't handle the whole movie at once. They are 16bit 48khz aif files exported from ProTools. The biggest thing here, is that at one point everything was in sync. I am trashing the preference files now to see how that works.
It's not a playback issue as well. When i scrub one frame at a time, the sync has drifted off later in the clip. It's very strange.
In my previous post I said the one of the Reels was in sync. That was because I recreated it, by making a new project and copying the video from the timeline, and re-importing the 5 audio streams. It didn't work for any other reels though. it is still out of sync in the main project.
Trashing prefs did not work.
Also, I tried a lot of the things in that technical doc, but non of them worked including trashing prefs.
The real weird part is that the Audio file SAYS it is the same length of the video, but the audio ends later. It's in sync in the beginning but not at the end.

Repeated Syncing Problems

My iPhone within the past few days (prior to the release of 1.1.4, even) has been having some strange syncing issues.
After connecting iPhone to my computer and completing a normal sync, within a couple minutes or so, it will light up again and begin to sync once more. And then more times within the coming minutes. This has been taking place for a while now. I am wondering if anyone else has been having this problem, or if it might be something involving the dock connecter.
I have already tried three different USB cables and still gotten the same result.
Please let me know if any of you have experienced this, and what possible actions could be taken to prevent this from continuing.

brian lugo,
There isn't an easy way to see what is changing SyncServices. SyncServices is an underlying framework used for syncing. .Mac Sync uses it for example, as does Address Book, Entourage, Mail to read addresses from Address Book, Missing Sync, iSync, etc.
Do you have any applications on your computer set to sync automatically with .Mac or with other applications?
Thank you,
Nathan C.

X6 and ovi suite sync problem - usb connection

i recently bought an x6 and set up ovi suite etc which all worked fine! yesterday i updated maps and the x6 operating system using ovi which again seemed to work fine. Now however when i connect phone to my pc the pc comes up problem with hardware installation and ovi suite only occassionally recognises phone - even when it does it will not sync music! help please - wish i hadn't updated anything as it all worked fine before !!!!

I have a similarly frustrating sync problem with my X6. It's my second phone too.
I've had Ovi Suite installed on my computer for about 9 months. I had difficulty getting it to sync with my X6 phone at first but after some troubleshooting I got it working reasonably well.
However over the last few months it doesn't initiate the syncing process after I connect my device. I can open Ovi Suite and click the sync buttons but it doesn't do anything.It doesn't freeze or crash either which is strange considering it is not processing the request.
I've tried everything including reinstalling the software and resetting my phone. This worked once and since went back to it's old tricks.
The only thing that works is removing the X6 device in OVI suite, rebooting the PC and adding the device again. This is real pain in the backside as you can imagine doing this each time I want to sync it.
In contrast the previous version - PC Suite - worked well with my old Nokia phone.
Nokia support have provided some guidance after pushing for a reply but you dont get expert or timely help from them.
Come on, we cant be just a few people having these issues? I reckon lots of x6 owners aren't getting full value from these devices.
It's at the stage where I'd not recommend a Nokia x6 or other Nokia phone to anyone wanting the PC connectivity which is one of the major benefits of a phone these days.
Go on Nokia give us some love!
One frustrated owner counting down the days to my upgrade option.

Strange wifi problem on a brand-new MacBook Pro

Hey there, I'm new here. Desperation has got the better of me, and I hope I can get some advice.
So, last sunday I bought a brand new 13" MacBookPro with 2.8g i7 processor and 10.7.2 OS (I can't update to 10.7.4 because System Update tells me the download has been tampered with or corrupted after I waited 2 hours for it to finish, but I'm trying a direct download from the website). Here's the exact product: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD314LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B005CWIZ4O/ref= sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1340301247&sr=8-5&keywords=macbook+pro+13
Everything is all perfect except for a strange wifi problem. Note that the wifi does not turn-on or off, it doesn't disconnect after 'sleep', it doesn't get less speed, it doesn't constantly leave a preferred connection (once I chose my home wifi it always connects to it no problem). The wifi bar is always full. What is wrong is that the internet is kinda 'glitchy'. The best metaphor I can think of is that it's like a car that has to be pushed down the road before the engine can start. Please, bear with me because this is kinda hard to explain and I'm not good at tech lingos.
One of the symptoms is browsing can get really slow and inconsistent, almost as if the wifi gets turned off in the middle of browsing. For example: if I look something up on Google and then open 5 new tabs, probably only 2 or 3 of those tabs will eventually load while the other two will not get past the long 'http:.......google.....etc etc' address and will eventually show one of those 'error loading page because there's no Internet connection' notice. This happens a lot. Sometimes I have to refresh/retry loading a page a couple of times before it finally loads, then usually everything will get back to normal and I will be able to open multiple tabs with no problem, but in a couple of minutes I would try to open another site and the problem will start again.
So I tried to see how it does with downloading using iGetter. Fortunately I also have a Macbook (white-plastic casing one) and my brother has an old 2006 MacbookPro so I can compare. With those two older Apples iGetter starts receiving data in less than 8 seconds after I click Start, while my brand-new Macbook Pro can take up to 15-20 seconds, sometimes it doesn't even start at all and I have to re-click the start button. But once the download actually starts (on my new MacBook Pro), it downloads like normal, it doesn't stop and the speed is also as good as I can get. Strange huh? Hence, like a car that has to be pushed before the engine starts.
I also tried 'speed testing' from a website with all 3 laptops. On my old MacBook and my brother's MacBook pro, once I click 'begin test' it takes only a couple of seconds of 'ping' before the download/upload speed measurements start, but with my new MacBook Pro (just like with iGetter) it takes up to almost a minute before the measurements start, sometimes it won't start at all and I have to re-start the test.
Well, thanks for reading. And hope you can help me shed some light into this. Because it is really preventing me from really enjoying my new MacBook Pro. And if this is most likely a hardware problem, I'd better get back to the store and try to get it replace or something while it's only been 5 days. *cheers*

Hey guys.. Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, I bought the MacBook in Indonesia where there are no such thing as an AppleCare. The only option is to leave the Apple product to one of the 'Authorized Apple care centre' and have whoever do whatever to it without guarantee of success. As for returning it and getting a brand new one, I also don't know if there is such a deal here, but that's actually a good idea, will try to go to the store tomorrow. Although, I'm worried that the problem might be with OSX Lion or something and getting a new one won't help.
mark75090, I've tried resetting the router when I first noticed te problem, didn't work though. I've checked my new MacBook's wi-fi (option+click wifi bar) and it says 'PHY Mode: 802.11g', so does my MacBook and the old MacBook Pro. I don't know what those mean though, and I don't know whether or not my router is an N., can you tell me more please.. I have tried with the other two turned off, and only the new MacBook using the wi-fi but the problem persists. I have also tried connecting directly to the router, but as I described, the problem is too subtle for me to notice the difference.
Also, if I create a brand new Wi-Fi connection in network preferences and connect to my router through the new Wi-Fi profile, the problem seems to be gone for an hour or so, then it always comes back though. I have also just finally installed 10.7.4, but it doesn't help either.

After iOS 8 upgrade, contacts and calendar strangely syncing

After upgrading my iPhone 5 to iOS 8 (and just recently 8.0.2, which I hoped would fix it, but didn't), I'm seeing strange sync behaviour with Google contacts and calendar. Here is what is happening:
Calendar
Creating an event on the phone shows up on Google. However, I cannot edit it like I used to be able to.
Creating an event on Google does not show up on the phone.
Contacts
Creating a contact on the phone does not show up on Google.
Creating a contact on Google shows up on the phone. Editing this contact changes it on Google too. (this seems really strange to me).
This is driving me nuts!

I have similar behavior. Contact sync with google works fine, not calendar though.
I connect to Google using Exchange protocol. Have worked excellent before, but after 8.0.2 (I suspect) calendar is only partly synchronized.
Not all events gets synced from Google calendar.
I used a workaround and connected to the calendar using CalDav, which is not nearly as good as exchange protocol

I have set up my new iPad 2 on my windowsn 7 computer, but experienced syncing problems from the start. It seems that it doesn't recognize the iPad, although it appears in iTunes.It only gives set up as new or restore options.

I have set up my new iPad 2 on my computer (Windows 7), but experienced syncing problems from the start. It seems that although my iPad is regognized in iTunes as it appears there, it only gives met the options to set up as a new iPad or restore from the backup, no synching options. What do I do?

File>Devices>Transfer Purchases will transfer the itunes purchases to your ocmputer.
You should sync your ipod to your computer regularly.

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