Sync problem and more

When I attach my new Ipod to my computer, it indicates it is syncing, but then it shuts off and the Ipod no longer shows up on the device list. Also, there are no playlists listed. Not all of the podcasts I've added to my library appear on the Ipod after synching. What could be the problem?

Have you tried restoring your iPod? Restoring will erase the iPod's hard drive, reload the software and put it back to default settings. Once the restore is complete follow the on screen instructions and it should connect to iTunes and give you a prompt to automatically update your library onto the fresh installation: Restoring iPod to factory settings with iTunes 7

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Sync problem and unusual amount of "Other" in memory usage

I have an iPod touch with 8.1.2 installed.
I will begin by the sync problems I was experiencing two days ago. First, some songs I tried to manually add were greyed out in the list. Then the sync got stuck at "Waiting for chagnes to apply". Then, all the songs in the iPod seemingly got corrupted. After some restores, the memory usage bar showed DOUBLE the amount of memory used, and half of that was "Other". 48 GB of "Other".
After restoring a copy from the day before, and then installing 8.1.2 (I had 8.1.1) the iPod seemed to sync right. Then, I noticed two things. First, many songs and albums didn't had the artwork. Second, many songs were missing. (I should say that I manually manage the music in my iPod). Today, I started manually adding songs and albums. After syncing many album covers were still missing. Then, after adding some abums, almost 10GB of "Other" appeared on the usage bar.
I would like to know how to solve this issue.

Restore the iPod since you have to remove the corruption and also:
stuck on waiting for changes to be applied
Waiting for changes to be applied solution
Re: "Waiting for changes to be applied"

Pearl syncing problems and unspecified errors

Hello all,
I have had this bbpearl flip for about a month now, and over christmas I added email and total internet to my phone package, so I am in the process of setting up all of that. Ever since I enabled the web and whatnot, I have been having sync problems. I tried to add email addresses to my outlook contacts by importing a .csv file, which gave me a box that said "Unspecified Error occured" during the sync. I have reinstalled the desktop manager software (v4.6) and the device software, and restored my harddrive to an earlier version. Everything seemed fine until I tried to use my bluetooth adapter to sync with my laptop. Turns out that the adapter doesn't work very well with Vista (which is what I have) so I have abandoned that idea for now. This morning when I plugged in my phone to sync, I am getting an Unspecified Error again. The last time I synced this way it worked just fine, and I don't know of anything I have done in the meantime to mess it up. Any ideas?
Specs:
BB Pearl Flip 8220 w/ T-Mobile
Toshiba Satellite running Windows Vista
Microsoft Outlook 2002 and Office 2003

no1khan wrote:
I have the same problem, i think its record 55. However i am sync'ing from the device to outlook. How do I find record 55 and how do I inspect from device...
Hello,
I haven't had to do so in quite some time, but I recall that if you do an export from Outlook, the order the data is in will be the same order that the sync process uses...which should enable you to find the record in question. However, that's from Outlook to the device...and you say you are doing the reverse...
Perhaps if you use the Desktop Software to perform an export from the BB, the records may well be in the order needed?
Good luck!
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GF4 AVI Capture/sync problem and solution.

1.9ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 2x80GB hds, G4 ti4400 128MB card, SBLive Xgamer sound card. Win98SE OS.
Now that I've fixed my Mpeg2 capture in WinProducer 2 and WinDVR, I've still had a problem with raw AVI capture. Audio/video sync is usually off with programs like VirtualVCR, iuVCR and even Adobe Premiere 6 (when it recognizes the WDM drivers at all) irregardless of resolution/sound encoding.
However, http://www.virtualdub.org/">VirtualDub works perfectly... I've managed to record 720x480 uncompressed or lossless compressed (HuffyUV codec) video with 48khz stereo PCM sound, no sync or frame drop problems.
Hope this helps. Too bad FAT32 doesn't let me capture more than a few minutes of full video before it hits the 4 GB limit and WinXP is impractical for me to upgrade to. :(
Can't win 'em all, I guess

Welcome to the forums
A battery pull is recommended:
1. Remove the battery while phone is turned on
2. Wait a few seconds before inserting it again
3. Allow the long boot up process to finish (takes a few minutes usually)
This clears most software issues that occur on blackberries from time to time. You could also use Quickpull, a free app that simulates a battery pull without physically removing the battery: http://software.crackberry.com/product.asp?id=27660
A battery pull reclaims memory lost during application usage and clears minor software errors that creep in over time. The blackberry runs an OS just like your PC runs windows and the battery pull is the equivalent of a reboot/restart on your computer.
Kijana
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Itunes sync problems (and wish list)

No doubt the iPhone is the most beautiful mobile phone with the greatest (and most consistent user experience). Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for iTunes! This tool (and being forced to use it) is the single greatest frustration in the iPhone experience!
I am sure many may not agree with me, especially considering it works fairly well as long as you don't change computers, want to sync two different iDevices (with same account BUT different content), temporarily remove apps/songs because of storage limitations, use app folders and expect iTunes to respect their content and placement, or try anything else outside iTunes limited scope. In short, iTunes is either incredibly non-inuitive, I am an idiot for not figuring it out, or it is absolutely the worst part about the iDevice family.
My problems began when I changed computers and since then, I have not been able to sync to my new computer. The problem is (or seems) that iTune is insisting on syncing in *one direction only*, with the message, "Are you sure you want to sync apps? All existing apps and their data on the iPhone "xxxxxxx" will be replaced with apps from this iTunes library." This message appears when I attempt to check the Sync Apps check box.
So what do I do? I have already deleted iTunes and reinstalled it.
- Yes, I have right-clicked on DEVICES, and selected BACKUP and SYNC and TRANSFER PURCHASES (why so many options AND what the heck are the differences?)
- If I ignore that dire warning and select Sync Apps, the preview window shows all my apps in a jumbled mess. In stark contrast, my iPhone apps are arranged in my own logical order and placed in organized app folders. I am afraid if I click SYNC, this is the mess that iTunes will send to my iPhone!
All I want to do is start over... I just want to back up (or sync) the contents of my iPhone like I have done for the past two years.
Can someone please tell me how to sync iPhone ---> iTunes?
I love iDevices... if I have to purchase another tool, I am happy to do so.
What about Touchcopy? http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php?gclid=CPqksPK0wbICFYdxQgodV EQAGQ
Or is iTunes more capable than I realise?
Thank you for your kind assistance!

Oh yes, my wish list for iTunes:
- Clearer messages that are more intuitive than what appears now.
- The ability to store/swap apps/music/etc. temporarily off-line (because of iDevice storage constraints)
   A backup/offline storage area that is ignored when syncing
- iTunes should respect apps and app folder content and placements
- Allow for multiple iDevices (with different content) on same iTunes account
   I have an iPod, iPad, and iPhone - I want to be able to independently sync them on a single computer
with a single iTunes account.
- Make it easier to sync in either direction (and change sync direction)
- Allow syncing (or backing up) of apps content. For instance, QUICKVOICE app! I cannot sync the content of this app! Apple doesn't allow access to the datastores (like Android) - very frustrating that I may have to resort to backing up this audio analog via an audio cable! Ridiculous!
- Allow us to use the iDevice as a temporary USB storage device! Grrr... this is frustrating that I cannot do this! I admit, this has little to do with iTunes
   However, it is the forced requirement of iTunes that is frustrating. This means that I cannot easily place documents to/from my iPhone (documents too large to email) when I at work because iTunes is not an allowed software.

Address Book Syncing Problems and Won't Restore

I sync address book between two computers using .mac, and also publish it for another family member to use. This was working fine under Tiger, but I've recently noticed some issues in Leopard. Occasionally, instead of merging records, it will double them up. This morning, I noticed I had twice as many contacts as I should. For some reason, it added my entire .mac address book again back to my computer. Other times it had done that with only a few of the contacts.
Fortunately, I had done an Archive my address book just the other day. Unfortunately, it didn't help. I went to restore from the Archive using "Import" and "Address Book Archive". It warned me it was about to replace my entire address book with the Archive, but then nothing happened. All my contacts disappeared, but then all of them came back again, still doubled. I know it was not doubled when I did the archive, so it didn't really restore my Archive.
I finally fixed my doubled contacts problem by doing a one way sync from my second computer (which had not yet been affected by this) to .mac and then a one way sync from .mac to my laptop. I then turned off .mac syncing.
Then, a little while later I had 20 more contacts! I realized that this came from the fact that the address book is published and the subscriber has editing rights. But she did not add them. It was again a doubling problem, this time in the sharing function. So I turned off editing in sharing.
All is back now but I won't turn .mac syncing or shared editing back on until I understand what happened.
Anyone else see these issues?

leopard 10.5.1 on macbookpro. instructions to fix missing sync for my treo 650 including backing up (exporting) then restoring the address book. i also am unable to restore.
the backup archive shows 6 MB.
i click import, choose the archive, verify that i want to replace all. the address book then shows only the address that was highlighted before import, still shows 1152 cards, but no other cards are visible. verified the search box is empty.
if i quit and restart address book, the original version of the address book is still there. apparently unable to import address book.
-db

NEW Album Artwork Problem and MORE!

Once I puchased a laptop, I attempted to copy the library on my main computer to the laptop. This worked fine. The problrms arose once I synced my Ipod to my new laptop. After I synced it, alot of the album artwork is not correctly positioned. What I mean by this: the artwork is with the correct songs, etc. but the actual artwork is all whackey. For example, instead of the artwork having the correct, individual sizes, they are in the same black box no matter what the size of the artwork, meaning artwork that is tall and wide is missing the top and bottom with black boxes on the sides.
That is the best I can explain that.
Another problem arose when I attempted to update my ipod. I got an error (-43) when I updated it on my laptop. After it failing over and over again, I just moved back my stuff from the laptop to the main computer to update it there. Now after I sync it to the main computer, the album artwork is still garbage and glitchy on my ipod. Moreover, I am still getting the error (-43) message.
*** itunes?
So now im thinking, "well, i'm going to have to save my library somewhere else and sync the ipod without a library." What makes me reluctant is if I move my library, which has the album artwork messed up, will it stay like that after the update considering the music is not being updated with it?
Well, this *****. I have no idea what to do. Why must iTunes have so many problems?

Well, It updated and synced fine. The album artwork sizes were fixed too!
But now the artwork looks add like the pixles are not set in properly....
Oh well.
Thanks to anyone who read this.

[SOLVED]Video problems and more

Some months ago, I posted about my video problems in trying to install Arch on several different computers. Getting no good results I gave up, but recently made another attempt. Right now, I have Arch installed on my test computer which is a MSI Celeron, with onboard S3 ProSavage video, one monitor. I do not use a desktop, only the JWM window manager, no icons, wallpaper or any other crap. Here, Arch is great. Ultimately, I want to get Arch set up on my workhorse which is an Asus P4, with no onboard video using dual monitors. I might add that this ASUS board, with two old nVidia cards, AGP and PCI ran dual monitors with FreeBsd and Debian.
Herein lies the problem:
I want Arch NOT to mess with the video until I start xorg regardless of whatever AGP and PSI card I might be using. Please stick with the BIOS resolution. This is how it was with every other linux I have installed. I have tried several video cards, AGP nVidia, ATI, and Matrox, as well as PCI nVidia and ATI, all with different results. Using most of the cards, I get a console (no, haven't messed with xorg yet) that appears in the upper left corner so small I can't read it. Or else, there's a white square that obliterates the upper left of the console, The only time this doesn't happen is if i use the matrox AGP card or an ATI PCI card not in conjunction with another card.
I read to use the vga=xxx in the grub menu list as well as kernel boot option set to nomodset, but either I don't know how to do this, or else it doesn't work for me. What is KMS, and how to use it?
I want to resolve this issue before attempting to get dual monitors set up on the Asus board. Any help is appreciated
Last edited by Ron74 (2011-03-18 16:17:45)

bohoomil wrote:
Ron74 wrote: What is KMS, and how to use it?
KMS
I don't quite get it: does the picture get messed up as you described after the kernel loads? Do you have normal BIOS logo / text before the bootloader starts?
As Arch takes over the boot process, the resolution becomes somewhat higher, and then when comes the logon screen it's so small, in the upper left, that I can hardly read it. This problem is well documented on the search engines. I have read where some users want a higher console resolution, and others want a lower resolution. I have installed Slack, FreeBSD, Debian, TinyCore and others, without this problem. Apparently, Arch is deciding what screen resolution a user should have in the console. This would be more understandable were it not that there is no consistancy between various video cards. Yes, I'm guessing that this happens after the kernel loads. But how come the discrepancy between different video cards?

ICal, Google Calendar, syncing problems and duplicate entries

Hi everyone:
I could use some help. Oy.
At work, we use Google calendar, and that hosts my appointments. I find the Google web-interface impossible, and would like to use iCal to access the data on the Google servers. I have no problem doing that with iOS--my iPhone and iPad manage to sync up fine, and syncing works in both directions; i can add and delete either on Google or on the iOS devices and everything is fine.
But on my desktop machine, I have problems of two sorts. First, once I follow the steps to add a calendar, the syncing seems broken; I can add and delete from the Google web interface, but nothing deleted from the desktop gets passed to Google. Second, I have many duplicate entries that show up on my desktop and some very old appointments that no longer should be on the calendar show up out of no where.
What I'd love to do is a full reboot, eliminating all calendar data everywhere (except on the Google servers, of course, where the work stuff is stored) and start from scratch. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance--
Roger

Keith Murlless wrote:
My issue is that when I follow directions and go to iCal/prefs/accounts, and click the "add" button.... I don't get (anything). No pop-up windows in which to enter my google account information.
Have you tried rebooted your Mac? (Not needed often, so we Mac users often forget to try this. ) Are you logged on with an admin account or a standard account? (Or one with Parental Controls enabled.)
Sometimes I'll find the dialog window "behind" my other windows. Try not to click or move your mouse after you click the plus button. Or try moving windows around or minimizing them so that any windows that are hidden behind other windows are then shown. (In fact try closing all apps and Finder windows to reduce the possibility of this issue in the first place.)
(BTW, your question really is separate from the original question, since the OP already has their Google account added to iCal and you are having trouble adding the account. In the future you'll want to start your own thread so that you can also mark posts answered or helpful.)

Installation problems and more.

i have a macbook that is currently running leopard and vista by bootcamp, a few weeks ago when i booted up and went to select my mac os, the screen wouldn't come up, power on > option > and then nothing, no choices of HD's just a blank grey screen, i've tried everything to get mac up and running (vista works fine), after many failed attempts, i decided to just erase everything and start over.
so, i went to reinstall tiger, then leopard, then bootcamp, then vista, but while i was trying to install tiger about half way through it will just stop installing and say, a error has occurred, installation failed. so i restarted the computer and tried two more times and the same thing just happened again.
i called apple support and the woman i was speaking to couldn't help me, she was only telling me things i already knew.
please help.
thank you.
by the way, this is not a new computer, nor new software, and it has all been used before and i've never had this problem until now.

Hi kaiileen, and a warm welcome to the forums!
It sounds like a failing Hard Drive.
If you have no data you need to save on that HD, then...
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the Erase tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type... MacOS Extended Journalled, select the Security Options button, choose Zero Out Data, Erase... after completion hopefully you'll be able to install.
after highlighting the drive, click on the Partition tab, Options button will be down below...
How to format your disks...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
(To Install OSX on an IntelMac the Drive it needs the GUID Partitioning scheme mentioned at the bottom.)

Audio problems and more after updating to 10.4.3

After taking an OS X update to 10.4.3 from 10.4.2, I've got static instead of audio. This happens no matter what program I'm using: Bias Peak 4.14, iTunes 6.0.1, Apple DVD Player 4.6, QuickTime 7.0.3. I'm even getting static on system sounds (empty trash, delete file, etc). If I open 'Sound' in System Prefs, I'm treated to continuous static...
My sound card settings have not changed - it's an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 running driver version 2.0.4. I've tried contacting M-Audio tech support but they're closed on weekends.
Everything was ok before I took the update. Now i've got the static and other weird problems as well:
If I try to play a .vob file from a commercially pressed DVD using VLC Media Player, I get the following error message "read failed - permission denied". Anything from a recordable DVD is fine (except for the audio).
If I try to backup any file from a commercially pressed DVD, the file doesn't copy and an error message appears: "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items". I double-checked with a DVD that I had previously backed up successfully using the same method and now it doesn't work.
Any thoughts or suggestions will be most welcome.

This was resolved by repair disc

IPod nano with computer connection problems and more

My iPod Nano is always stuck at 1:06am and on the completely wrong date. The time will not change. If I try to change the date and time, it freezes up and I have to do a hard reset so I can get it to function. This problem it has had for quite a while now, and I don't view as a very pressing issue.
The following problem however is new to just yesterday. It impedes me from updating the iPod or adding new music. I added new music to it a month or so ago and yesterday was the first time I have tried to do anything with it on a computer in 2014.
It will not connect to a computer. The moment I try to chord it up, my entire computer runs slower, and iTunes crashes. My computer also doesn't always recognize that it is plugged into the it even though the iPod will have a "Do not disconnect" screen and is charging.
Another interesting thing to note is that I have tried to synch my iPod up to a few different computers and the results are the same, and if you try to shut down or boot up a computer with my iPod attached to it, it won't. It'll stop mid process and refuse to shut down or boot up.
I have followed some of the troubleshooting guides on similar sounding problems to no avail.
I realize that my iPod is also fairly old as far as iPods go (2008) and I will probably have to just get a new mp3 player. However, I would like to avoid that outcome as long as possible.

first off , i don't think there should be any issues updating the router's firmware on a vista machine....
the other things that you can try are :
changing the MTU size to 1365 ,
under the "advanced wireless settings" subtab, change the beacon interval - 50 , fragmentation and RTS threshold - 2304 ...

Syncing problem and battery

My 1st gen shuffle has been waxing and waning on length of play. It is less than a year old and used infrequently. I recently recharged the thing to full charge. I cannot play a song on my external player. When I sync to my pc I get the follow error "The iPod xxxx cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to." (I love those dangling participles). Also, when I push play on the the shuffle I have blinking orange and green dots. Any ideas?
PC Windows XP

My 1st gen shuffle has been waxing and waning on
length of play. It is less than a year old and used
infrequently. I recently recharged the thing to full
charge. I cannot play a song on my external player.
When I sync to my pc I get the follow error "The iPod
xxxx cannot be synced. The disk could not be read
from or written to." (I love those dangling
participles). Also, when I push play on the the
shuffle I have blinking orange and green dots. Any
ideas?
PC Windows
XP
Try the Reset Utility:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305204%3E%3Ca%20href=

Startup Problems (and more) with my G5 PowerMac

OK, here goes...
This started this morning. I came into my office and found that my G5 had finished burning the DVD I had started last night before bed (some avi's in Toast, for what it's worth). Removed the DVD, shut down Toast and tried to drag the avi's to the trash. Instead of behaving normally, this (just to be clear, I mean dragging the avi's to the trash) restarted the dock and "disappeared" any open folders on the right side of the dock (as well as the open folder with the avi's on the desktop) All the folders opened back up on the desktop in a few seconds. I was able to send the other folders back to the dock, but any effort to put the avi's in the trash (one at a time or together, by dragging or right-clicking for the menu) repeated the same scenario.
Then tried to restart, which went normally until the blue bar (in the "Starting OSX window") reached the far right side. At this point, it just hung (although the blue bar still seemed to be "moving"). Tried several more times, same thing.
Then I tried resetting the SMU (unplugged it for half an hour. Didn't try the SMU reset button, as I believed that to be redundant, correct?) -- Nothing. Reset the PRAM -- Nothing.
I then tried an "Archive and Install" from my Tiger DVD. After it does it's thing (well, almost does it's thing - it doesn't finish), it has a "There were errors installing the software" message at the top of the installer window. So again, no luck.
Then I moved on to Disk Utilities and tried a Repair DisK. After writing "Overlapped Extent Allocation" (with a parenthetical file reference) about a thousand times, and "checking multi-linked files", as well as "checking catalog hierarchy" it quickly scrolls to a stop, showing "Volume Bit Map needs minor repair," "Invalid volume free block count," then "Volume Header needs minor repair," followed by 'repairing volume" and "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired." Finally, it says "Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit" (as well as some messages about "the (HFS) volume could not be repaired because of an error." The First Aid Failed window says that Disk Utility stopped repairing Macintosh HD because "the underlying task reported failure on exit." And that's all I could think to try.
So, any ideas on how to proceed?
I'll point out, just in case, that this was the original, pre-installed hard drive. I have another internal in there, as well as five externals.
Hoping someone can help, but dreading what I anticipate hearing.
TIA,
Warren

Karl,
This is just a note to say thanks for your help. I don't know if you'll read this, but I thought it would only be polite to make the effort.
In case you're interested, the drive is back up and working. Something you mentioned about using Tech Tool Pro (which I do have) to recover data, sparked a thought about another path to try before giving up and starting over with a clean install.
I went out and picked up a copy of DiskWarrior, and that did the trick. It was able to rebuild the directory, and from there I was able to successfully do an "Archive and Install" from my Tiger DVD. It seems most of the damage to the OS was minor, and it was just one or two of the overlapped files that were the culprits. There are a few minor things I'm still fixing: a few programs that had to be reinstalled, some drivers that needed replacing, fixing the settings for the network and one or two other minor things. However, weighing that against the idea of having to do everything over from scratch makes me feel like I got off very lightly indeed.
There are also a few other benefits that I've accrued: A new, bigger hard drive to use as my startup disc, so I don't have to struggle for space with the old 150GB one; a copy of DiskWarrior (an invaluable program, if there ever was one); and a renewed sense of urgency when it comes to maintaining my Macs. It's all to easy to become complacent when you're using a machine as stable as a Mac. And, also, a great reminder of how insidious the "creeping OS damage" can be. All-in-all,,,
So thanks again for your efforts. This wouldn't have had as happy an ending without your help. I hope you see this.
-W

Equium A60: graphic problems and more

ive had so many probs with tis equium a60. it was overheating, stand by wasnt working and now the graffics were messing up! I rung this place pcworld recommended n they said try formatting it (great). so anyway i restored it to the factory settings so it was exactly how it was when i first got it. stand by is now working properly :) but it is still overheating (i mean it really does get hot) and the graffics still are messing up.
what happens is the screen freezes for a few seconds and then it goes to the worst display settings possible, so everything is massive and the colours are all wrong. and a pop up says windows as encountered an error please reboot.
This just happens at random times, i dont understand why ive formatted. I dunno if the graffics card itself is knackered. any help or ideas much appreciated. cheers

Hi Dave,
I think it must be assumed that your problems stem from the over-heating. It is very common for dust and debris to build up and block the passage of air through the CPU Heat Sink. I would suggest trying to remove any such accumulation either by blowing through the heatsink (towards the cooling fans), or by sucking out any debris with a domestic vacuum cleaner. If all else fails then you can remove the heatsink and clean the dust out before replaceing it. Beware that this may invalidate your warranty.
Normally a thermal trip will shut off the power if it detects the CPU getting too hot, but this does not mean that some other problems may not arise.
If you still have problems with you display after you have dealt with the over-heating issue then please post again.
HTH

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