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KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

I didn't see this mentioned over the last few pages but it seems to be a well-known issue: I've got the thing where occasionally, maybe once a month or so, syncing my 5th gen iPod touch with iTunes gets stuck on the "waiting for changes to be applied" stage for an inordinately long time. If I have the time to let it run, it will eventually end but it might take 20 minutes, might take two hours. This isn't about it taking a long time to copy a music library; I'm talking about a routine sync where basically nothing has changed except maybe a handful of podcast episodes. If I interrupt it (even with the "x" button and then ejecting, not just unplugging), there's a good chance my library gets corrupted and some/all of my music and podcasts will be unavailable until I let it sync completely and recopy everything. Really annoying, since syncing is often the last thing I do before I intend to step out the door and I don't have time to let it run as long as it decides to.

It's happened with both iOS 7 and 8. I nuked my iTunes library on the PC as best I could, reset the iPod and restored everything from scratch, and that seemed to fix it for a month or two. I'm not doing anything unorthodox with it, no third-party programs to sync music or anything like that. Google turns up a lot of people with the problem across various devices but the only solutions offered are the kind that sound coincidental and don't work for me. Anyone beaten this?

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