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Problems with iTunes opening automatically when connecting an iPhone
By Jesse Hollington
Social Media & Software Editor, iLoungeGoogle+
Published: Friday, September 30, 2011
Articles Categories: Ask iLounge, iTunes
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I am running Lion on my 27” iMac. I have the box “Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected” checked, but iTunes has to be manually started to synch my iPhone 4. ANy clues why this rather simple problem occurs?
- Ernie
A: The first thing to check is to look in your iTunes Preferences on the “Devices” tab and ensure that the option to “Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically” is not selected. This option serves as a global override to the individual options for each device, and if enabled will prevent ANY device from automatically syncing with iTunes, regardless of whether it is a new or existing device.
If this option is not enabled yet you’re still having problems, try UNchecking the “Open iTunes” option, syncing your device, and then RE-checking it. This option is actually stored with the device and it’s possible for the option in iTunes and the setting on your iPhone to mismatch, particularly if you’ve connected your device to other iTunes libraries.
Failing this, the only remaining option is a potential problem with your operating system or installation of iTunes. Removing and reinstalling iTunes can sometimes solve this—to do this simply move the “iTunes” application to the trash, empty the trash and then download the latest version of iTunes and install it. Note that you can do this without losing any of your iTunes preferences or content as you only removing the application and not any of the data.
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“... you can drag and entire folder to the iPod and all of the playlists in that folder will be transferred in one step.”
Unless something changed in the last year, you cannot drag and drop a playlist folder to a manually-managed iPod. In fact, playlist folders cannot be used at all with a manually-managed iPod unless you auto-sync the playlist folders first and then change the iPod to manual mode.
Posted by rockmyplimsoul on October 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM (PST)