Voice Memo Won't Sync from iPhone

Ugh!
I've been syncing voice memos from iPhone to iTunes for more than a year with no problems. Now this morning I can't sync the latest one I made last night.
I've:
-- Restarted my iMac
-- Tried File>Sync
Nothing works. The file I need just sits on my phone unable to move to iTunes so I can do something with it.
I thought Apple things "just worked?"
Any ideas?
Thanks.

The following steps worked for me:
- Disconnect your iPhone from your computer.
- Quit iTunes
- Relaunch iTunes
- Select "Oragainize Library..." from the File/Library menu
- Check the "Consolidate Files" option and hit OK
- Quit iTunes
- Relaunch iTunes
- Plug in your iPhone and sync
- Your new voice memos should now be in iTunes.

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