Sync taking forever and freezing

Can anyone help? Normally my iPod touch syncs in seconds, but since yesterday it attempts to sync... then freezes and takes hours... I end up unplugging it. Some songs will be on my iPod touch, some won't.
Any idea whats causing iTunes to be so terrible?

Some folks have found that podcasts or voice memos were causing this. Delete them off the itouch itself, then plug it into your PC.

Similar Messages

When my Mac battery dies and I turn it back on, it always crashes on the grey screen with the progress bar, then it restarts (taking forever) and does not remember any of the programs I was running. MacBook Pro 13 inch running Mavericks

When my Mac battery dies and I turn it back on, it always crashes on the grey screen with the progress bar, then it restarts (taking forever) and does not remember any of the programs I was running. MacBook Pro 13 inch running Mavericks

http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/17/os-x-yosemite-installation-stuck/
also use the Command-L to view logs during installation

Upgrade to iOS 6.0.1 is taking forever and can't cancel on iPad

Upgrade to iOS 6.0.1 is taking forever and can't cancel on iPad

iPad Frozen? How to Force Quit an App, Reset or Restart Your iPad
http://ipadacademy.com/2010/11/ipad-frozen-how-to-force-quit-an-app-reset-or-res tart-your-ipad
iPad: Basic troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3274
 Cheers, Tom

Calendar Sync Taking Forever (iCal)

I'm trying to sync my iCal calendars and its taking forever to sync. I left it running for several hours and it did not stop. I fear burning the green battery in on my new iPhone's screen so I've stopped the sync several times.
I tried it on my other computer (overwriting the old information) and it worked fine. On my powerbook I can't seem to get it to work.
Could it be a problem with iCal? Is there any reset options in iCal or iLife that might help me? It's only my calendars. Contact, Bookmarks and email sync with no problem.
Thanks in advance

I experienced this problem as well, and after looking at various potential fixes, I found that I had to delete certain .plist files to make the sync function work again. This is a problem that the casual user should not have to address, and something that Apple will probably address (at least I hope) shortly.
I'm up and running again, but I do note that my troubles didn't appear until I subscribed to some calendars off of the internet. I'm not going to do that again until this issue has been resovled. There are some other threads on this board that address the specific .plist files, so I'd go there first. If you don't understand what that post tells you to do, then I'd stay away from the fix.

HT1386 Syncing taking FOREVER

why is it taking forever to sync my ipad? its been syncing for about 45 mins I cant eject or anything is it ok to disconnect from computer??

You're welcome.
You won't lose everything.
All iTunes content on your iPhone - all music, movies, tv shows, and 3rd party apps should be in your iTunes library on your computer.
All photos and/or videos in your iPhone's Camera Roll should be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera. Did you read the info included with the link provided? If so, have you imported all photos and/or videos from your iPhone's Camera Roll followed by deleting the photos/videos from the Camera Roll after the import process is complete? If so, any change with your iPhone's backup time after doing so?
Contacts, calendar events, and Safari bookmarks are designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer, so none of this data will be lost either.
If your iPhone's Camera Roll is empty and no change with it empty, you can try deleting the existing backup followed by manually creating a new backup. Go to iTunes > Preferences and under the Devices tab select the current backup followed by selecting Delete.
With your iPhone connected, right click on your iPhone under Devices in the iTunes source list and at the menu window that appears, select Back Up to create a new backup.

Time Machine taking forever and backing up extensive files. Help!

Ever since we upgraded my spouse's iMac, Time Machine has been acting up. My Mac store/guru guy migrated all the files from her really old G5 to her "new" (refurbished) aluminum iMac... NOT from the external HD she used for her Time Machine back-ups. When we connected the external HD to her new iMac, Time Machine automatically made a new back-up folder and did a complete back-up to that new folder. That was unexpected but understandable. After that, however, subsequent back-ups take forever, and Time Machine insists on preparing tens of thousands of files for back-up every time it runs, even though the great majority of said files had not been touched and did not need to be backed up. I will periodically check Time Machine preferences during these interminable back-ups, and sometimes it will be stuck in the "preparing" phase, and sometimes in the "finishing up" phase. The poor external HD just cranks and cranks and cranks.
I've read many of the Time Machine-related questions and responses, but none seem to address this particular problem. I tried putting the external HD on the Spotlight Preferences/Privacy/Indexing exclusion list, quitting System Preferences, then opening it up again and reversing the process to see whether Spotlight would re-index the external HD (per one communities suggestion I read), but that didn't seem to take place.
I have yet to visit the site referenced several times as the Time Machine FAQ gold mine; will do that next.
Any other ideas, anyone?

Thanks, Joe. My software is up to date. I forgot to mention that, after this first began happening, I erased the external HD and had Time Machine start all over again. It did the first, complete backup overnight, but subsequent ones still take longer than they should and it still prepares 90,000 - 120,000 items when it should be doing no where near that many files on an hourly basis. I'm wondering whether the cable needs to be changed out, as well. We're running OS 10.6.8.

Lightroom mobile syncing taking forever

Lightroom 2015 and Mobile for Android are set to sync automatically. I have 95 photos on my mobile, and 6 more have just been added. The 95 are showing on the desktop, and on the nameplate it is saying "syncing 96 photos" and only one of the new ones has shown up so far. It has been syncing for an hour. I have previously tried disabling and re-enabling syncing, disabling the virus/firewall scanner, exited LR and restarted, restarted the computer and each time it has been stuck in sync mode for ages. My broadband connection is 20Mb/s. How long should syncing be reasonably expected to take?

Hi. Did you trigger a delete data via LR preferences ->Lightroom mobile.
I'm not seeing a catalog connected to your account.
Did you import originals via the connection-kit?
Thanks
Guido

ITunes 11.3 does not sync with devices and freezes

I am using iTunes 11.3 on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.9.4) and every time I connect a device (iPhone 5S or iPad) it freezes and I have to quit the application. It's been happening for some time now and I simply can't sync my devices. I can sync my photos because iPhoto is working fine, so I believe the problem is related to iTunes.
I searched in the support for similar problems and usually is solved by deleting the "SyncServices" folder, however I can't find this folder anywhere. I need to get my sincyng working again.. What can I do?
Thanks

Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Quit the application if it's running. Move the selected item to the Trash. Relaunch the application and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

9900 syncing taking forever

Having been served well by the 9780 for 2.5 years, I got a Q10 and immediately sent it back because of it not syncing with Outlook, So now I have a 9900 and I like the model but it is taking me 2.5 hours to synch calendar & contacts thru 7.0 software . I won't apologise for fact that I have a huge amount of calendar entries going back years because 9780 synced in 5-10 mins. I am desperate to know how to remedy this as I cannot keep updating device & outlook calendar if it will take this long. Can I go back to 6.0 software or another idea please?!

Hey belinab,
Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
Thanks for the question.
If you have thousands of contacts and calendar entries, then yes it will take longer to synchronize in BlackBerry Desktop Software 7.0. However 6.0 can not be used with BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone.
With regards to the BlackBerry Q10, currently there is only import to BlackBerry available and two way synchronization will be available at a later date.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Cheers.
-ViciousFerret
Come follow your BlackBerry Technical Team on Twitter! @BlackBerryHelp
Be sure to click Like! for those who have helped you.
Click Accept as Solution for posts that have solved your issue(s)!

Manual Syncing taking forever.......

My G3, purchased 8-28-08, was replaced last night because it had lots of issues, even after upgrading to 2.1 and updating my MacBook to 10.5.5. One of the major issues was around Mobile Me, not working. In the midst of addressing these issues, my manual syncing is now taking an excessive period of time to sync. I've been spending far tooooooo much time in the Apple Store, and on the phone with Apple Specialist. Does anyone have any idea why it's taking sooooooo long to do a manual sync? I've pretty much given up on Mobile Me. I had Palm TX, which I thought was from the stone ages, but at least it did a sync in record time. So far, G3 has been a nightmare. I just want to be able to at least manually sync it in a reasonable time. Thanks for listening.

As mentioned, I will just confirm seeing a lot of blogs and comments in blogs about the USB port you use and it effects Mac users more so than Windows users.
1. Make sure it is USB 2.0.
2. Make sure it isn't a Hub.
3. If it is a HUB, don't have any 1.1 devices on the same hub.

Syncing taking forever

I plugged my IPhone into my Macbook Pro to sync about 2 hours ago and its still syncing. This happened yesterday as well so I had to cancel the sync so I could go out. What could be causing this? I did purchase about 40 songs from ITunes on my Macbook and add a couple things to my calendar but this is crazy.

Hi Mo Morrill,
i had the same thing some time ago when initially syncing my phone.
It was because i clicked around in the Settings while the sync was starting up and i accidentally clicked away the window which asks to access my keychain for my eMail accounts.
Rebooting the host machine solved the problem. Some iTunes sync service was get stuck.
Please try to reboot your machine (i did also reboot the phone at the same time)
Regards,
somi

My new iphone 5 s never finishes a sync. it stays on the "finishing sync" stage forever, and I ultimately have to click the done button without getting finished.

anybody else having the problem. I can't get my iphone to finish a sync. it just keeps going on and on.

Take it to an Apple Store for testing. If you don't get immediate satisfaction, exchange it for another one, which you can do at no cost, no questions asked, within 14 days of delivery.

What do i do when my itunes says itunes could not restore the ipod "ashley's ipod" because backup session failed. my ipod will not sync any songs and freezes my itunes. this has all started since i had updated it. are there any solutions on how tofixthis?

please help

Try moving the existing backup file to a save location and try again. It is located here:
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

HT2822 Setting up date and time is taking forever and failed to do it automatically or manually.

Hello:
When I tried to configure my new Apple TV for some reason it kept trying to set the date and time automatically but wasn't able to. I tried to do it manually but couldn't do it either. When I tried to skip this part and log into my iTunes account it said I had to set the date and time first. So it seems like I'm stuck in this loop. Any hints?
Ricardo Ortiz

Assuming this is not the first time you have used your Apple TV
You might try restarting the Apple TV by removing ALL the cables for 30 seconds.
Also try restarting the router. (Also try removing it’s power cord for at least 30 seconds)
If the problem persists, try a restore, you may want to try the previous procedures several times before doing this.
If restoring from the Apple TV doesn't help, try restoring from iTunes using a USB cable.
If this is a new Apple TV, in addition to trying the above, it may also be that your network router is not allowing access to the timeserver, check that your router allows access over port 123.

IPod won't sync and freezes iTunes

I am no novice user. I have an iPod Classic 120 GB. I had my iPod in disc mode and updated 1 song and shutdown the computer without ejecting the iPod first. Now all the songs disappeared. I tried to reconnect the iPod but everytime I plug it in iTunes freezes. It will sync a few hundred songs and then just stick on one for hours. I have 41 on there right now.
I've tried reformatting in Windows, but it fails. I tried doing Quick Format and that works. Every time I open iTunes it says you need to restore your iPod. So I restore it and it says everything is fine. It tries to sync the iPod and freezes again. I've uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes. I've checked "sync only checked songs" and selected about 150 to do. I've reset the iPod multiple times (by holding center button and Menu). Nothing works.
I've searched the Internet for the passed 2 days looking over every topic I can find. I need help.

Here's a little update. I had tried a quick format again. iTunes restored the iPod and I had the options to manually manage music. I dragged about 100 songs at a time to the iPod and it sent them. I ejected the iPod after the first couple hundred and they were there. I plugged it back into iTunes and did about 300 more. I had a total of 500 songs. I finished syncing and didn't freeze. I ejected the iPod no problem. After it said OK to disconnect I look through the songs and it says 0 songs. Now it's freezing up iTunes again. >:(
Message was edited by: Jerry cherry pie
Message was edited by: Jerry cherry pie

Sync taking forever and freezing

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for