Hi Guys,
Would love to share this with you.
I got this error several times and looks like iTunes software stuff things up.
To get around this error do the following
- Shut down and unplug your iPhone or iPad or iPod.
- Quit iTunes Software.
- Plug in your iPhone iPad or iPod.
- Open iTunes if it does not automatically open.
- It should start to sync now If not then.
- Shutdown your iTunes software and Open it again without unplugging your iOS device.
The above steps worked for me and I am sure they will work for you too.
Another thing that you can try if the above fails is to take a snapshot of your Backups and then delete them all. Your backups are generally located here
C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
After deleting the Backups try your sync again. BUT please take a backup of your Backups before deleting them
Cheers
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Thanks for the tip – it worked….
I have an iPod Touch the software and everything is updated. But everytime i try sync it always says “The session has timed out” or “The iPod ‘Brooke’s iPod’ could not be synced because the sync session has failed to start.” I have this problem everytime i try to sync my songs. Sometimes it will even be halfway syncing apps and it will just freeze, and it wont do anything. I have told my friend about this situation and she said maybe there’s a gliche in it, and that i should just reset my iPod. But i dont really wanna do that because i’m scared that if i do that, that it would take FOREVER to get the songs that i already have on there, on there again. I have tried everything! PLEASE HELP ME!
Well I am really not sure If I can be of any help unless I can see what’s happening. I sort of don’t want to give wrong advice to you. I can only recommend to move your backups from default folder to some other folder and try again. Sometimes if there are duplicate BUPs that could be a problem.
thankyou so much for posting about to fix that syncing problem, i’ve
been looking everywhere on how to fix it and people were all over the
place. thankyouu so much
i end task on itunes, i’m running win7 ul 64bit restarted itunes, backup and sync went fine, thanks buddy
Thank you very much. It works for me.
Thanks, works like a charm