| I'm kinda glad I don't have (nor have ever had) any work that could be considered "life-and-death" work! I have had some work that was pretty important to both me and a client or employer, however, and Windows machines have let me down more often than Apple devices have. Now that I'm semi-retired and do a lot less work-type tasks and more personal things, I depend on my iPads for the things that are important to me, and they don't let me down at all. Or, at least, so far they haven't. In fact, I consider myself lucky in that most of the electronic devices I use are very dependable, and I certainly wouldn't call them Rube Goldberg devices or--horrors!--expect them to malfunction! I guess I shudder less when I think than you do, David. ;-) Things work for me far more often than not! Once after a big iOS update every one of my devices that had been updated stopped working thanks to the overwhelmed Swiss servers. When I say they stopped working, I mean they were 100% unresponsive. Nix! Nada! Nothing! All of them completely GONE! What a feeling! I called Apple and after about 15 min. the rep told me to go to the Apple Store to get assistance. I was told that the problem was known to them and that in a couple of days an update would come out that would "fix" this. (It was only later that I found out that it was due to overloaded servers that my devices were all fried. That update eventually appeared, but it didn't have a thing to do with the problems I had had.) So I had no other recourse but to go to the Apple Store. The genius was able to restore my iPhone and told me to go home and put a backup on it and it would be fine. HA! When I got home the iPhone was back to unresponsive mode. Luckily I had watched the genius like a hawk when she was working on my phone, so I was able to do the same thing and "get it back" to a working mode, but it didn't last long. So there I was, left to my own resources. Determination and perseverance saved the day, and a lot of Googling also got me some ideas. A couple of days later I had actually gotten my iPhone, iPad, and iPad Mini back to "normal" and was pretty happy about it, needless to say. (I have to admit that I patted myself on the back a couple of times, too!) I haven't had any more issues with any of them, but I figure if I ever do, I may be able to solve them, with or without help from Apple. With the above in mind, my advice to you, Jim, is to NOT give up until you are sure that the situation is hopeless, and then try one more time. ;-) Before you erase everything and start anew, try re-booting your iPad over and over again. Don't ask me why, but this has helped me in the past, strange as it sounds. I'm assuming you have the latest updates on your devices and iTunes. Another thing that has helped me is to be really super-patient and compare every single thing in my settings to make sure that some "dumb little detail" that I didn't even know existed isn't causing the problem. Check any app that has anything to do with photos especially thoroughly. Do the same with iTunes. Sometimes an option will be changed for some reason without our awareness, whether thanks to an update of some app or something else. And you might also try Googling your problem and see if anybody else has had a similar thing happen and has figured out what to do about it. Good luck on getting this fixed without too much more hassle! Carlee /\„,„/\ ( =';'= ) /*♡♡*\ (.|.|..|.|.) /\__/\_____ (=-.-=),,__,,_)~~~~ -------Original Message------- Date: 13.05.2016 05:16:52 Subject: Re: [iPad] iTunes photo sync weirdness I am hoping NOT to have to completely erase and reinstall everything as new. Actually, that might be the easiest way. But beware - it still might not work. I'm very glad I don't have to depend on any of these gadgets - with any software and hardware - for real, life-and-death work. They're all impossibly complicated Rube Goldberg devices. We expect them to malfunction. And it will only get worse. One shudders to think. But, since for me it's all just fun and games, I'm going with the flow and enjoying it immensely 😎 I have an iPhone 6+ and and iPad "Baby Pro", both with 128 GB of storage. On my Mac, I have a directory with selected photos, mostly in sub-folders, to be sync'd to these devices when I perform my regular cabled sync. For reasons I cannot fathom, the complete selection of images has properly synced to the iPhone, but not to the iPad, despite the settings within iTunes being identical, and despite there being about 50 GB of free storage space on each device. I do NOT do anything with Photos in iCloud (option is UNchecked in Preferences). I've tried re-booting the iPad, with no apparent effect. If I UNcheck "Sync Photos" in iTunes, I am given 2 choices: "iTunes will no longer sync photos to [this iPad" Do you want to keep or remove photos previously synced to your iPad?" <<Keep Photos>> <<Remove Photos>> If I <Keep>, then when I later turn "Sync Photos" back on, the remainder of the designated photos still do NOT sync. If I <Remove>, then the existing ones do NOT disappear from the iPad, nor do the missing ones appear when I turn "Sync Photos" back on. Has anyone any useful suggestions? I am hoping NOT to have to completely erase and reinstall everything as new. | ||
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