IPhone :: 3GS - Getting An Error "backup Cannot Be Saved On This Computer" When Sync To ITunes
May 3, 2012
I am not able to sync my iPhone 3GS on iTunes. I keep getting an error "backup cannot be saved on this computer". I have tried to sync my phone to both my old desktop and my brand new laptop running the lastest version of iTunes but I keep geeting the same error. I have also tried deleteing the old backup file from the backup folder I'm trying to backup my old 3GS because my friend game me a new 3GS in perfect condition and I would like to transerfer everything over to it so I can start using it. My contacts, text messages, and photos are the most important things I want to transfer to the new phone. This shouldnt be hard to do but I get the error everytime I try to sync my current phone.
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 4
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May 30, 2012
My original computer died, and I don't have a phyical back up of my data. If I try to sync the device to a new computer will I lose everything currently on my phone? If so, is there a way around this?
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iPhone 4
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Apr 4, 2012
I have apps with files in the app. Wonder if they are saved in the backup?
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iPhone4, iOS 5
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Jul 1, 2012
I have the iphone4. My laptop crashed back in February, so that was the last time I backed up my phone and was synced to a computer. I have no way of accessing anything on this computer. It doesn't turn on or anything, it is basically just a shell now, so I can't release my iphone from it's authorization with that computer and itunes. I am trying to finally sync my phone to a different computer. I went to both Verizon and the Apple store and they told me to go under my itunes preferences and make sure that the iphone does not automatically sync to the computer, so I did that. I plugged my iphone in and thankfully it didn't sync... but then they told me to manually save all my information and apps and pictures and contacts and what not from my iphone to my computer so that I had it incase everything got lost. However, there is no way for me to do this!!! I transfered my itunes purchases so it saved most of my apps, but I have no way of saving my music and photos and contacts. I'm not sure if I am supposed to backup my iphone to this computer? Or will I lose everything? And I know if I sync that I will lose everything since there is nothing saved to this computer. If someone could please help me that would be great!!! I have gone to both Apple and Verizon and read around on the internet trying to figure this out, but no one is giving straight steps on how to do this. I don't know how to save my contacts and photos and everything manually to the computer like they told me in case the sync loses everything. And this has been 5 months like this trying to get help and figure this out, and I'm definitely fed up to say the least. I also haven't even been able to update to ios 5 yet so I don't have iCloud or any other way of backing up everything.
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iPhone 4S
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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May 4, 2012
I have restored my phone settings and now trying to restore apps & music from Itunes on my computer but is asking for my backup password. I tried my password that I have always used when getting new apps, etc. but that didn't work. I'm loss as to what to do.. I can't even use my phone at this moment because there is nothing on it..
Aargh!
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Jul 3, 2010
While we were on vacation my brother in law upgraded to an iPhone 4 and I bought his old 3G and jailbroke it using Spirit. I also unlocked it to use on TMobile. Now that I'm home, I wanted to sync it or back it up so that I wouldn't lose apps and such. I don't have any music or videos on it but would like to do that eventually also.
1. I tried to sync some TV shows and it said that this iPhone was associated with another iTunes library so the sync would erase what was on the phone and replace it with what's on my Mac. My question here is, does it just erase things like videos and music, or will it also torch my apps and erase the jailbreak?
2. I notice when you right click the iPhone icon in the left side pane in iTunes there's a "Back up" option. Does that backup all of my apps to iTunes without erasing data on the phone or messing up the jailbreak?
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May 15, 2012
How do I back up & sync my iphone to iTunes?
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iPhone 4S
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May 5, 2012
I continue to get an error message without a specific error code when trying to sync and update my iPhone 4S (5.1) to iTunes (10.6.1). This started after an Apple Techincian had me restore the iPhone because I was having WiFi issues, which continued even after the fact. This is a replacement iPhone 4S. My original 4S had battery issues and had to be replaced. Unbeknownst to me, Apple replaces with refurbished iPhones, a practice I do not agree with. I experienced the WiFi dropping from the get-go with the replacement/refurbished iPhone 4S, but hung in there hoping it was just a fluke. It appears this iPhone 4S will need to be replaced.
Back to the issue at hand. I have removed all backups from iTunes. Of course now I have no backups stored on iTunes or iCloud.I have run Disk Utilities to repair permissions. I have reset the iPhone. I tried to restore it, but it will not restore since it cannot backup current data. I have made sure all OS software is updated. I have made sure permissions are unlocked in Backup folder on my HD.
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iPhone 4S, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 31, 2012
My iphone 4s will not backup as it says error in itunes?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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Jul 12, 2010
I had to replace my old computer with a new one and I downloaded the new itunes, but when I plugged in my Iphone and it sync'ed the two, it only transferred the purchased songs, not my long amount of playlists. How can I import all of the music i have on my ipod and iphone into itunes?
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May 22, 2012
Can I sync itunes without a computer?
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iPhone 4
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Jun 2, 2012
I dropped my iPhone and now it won't sync with my computer or iTunes. Is this something I can fix myself?
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Aug 14, 2010
1) Can I backup and sync normally in itunes now without hurting anything? What If I have jailbroken apps in folders with normal apps from apple. Just want to make sure I can sync and backup without hurting anything.
2) If I ever want to update to a newer apple firmware down the road, I can't believe you have to restore the whole phone to do this! Then you lose all your jailbroken content! Isn't there a way to back up the jailbroken stuff? Its super easy to jailbreak it, you would think you could uninstall the jailbreak just as quick, but I guess that isn't the case.
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May 6, 2012
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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Jun 16, 2012
I recently updated my iPhone 4 to 5.1.1 and updated my iTunes to 10.6.3. Today I tried syncing my iPhone and after letting iTunes create a backup, it showed me this dialog: "iTunes cannot backup iPhone [name] because an error occurred." There was no error code included. I tried everything, I deleted my backups (i backed them up first (backupception lol)), I uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, I rebooted my PC and iPhone.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Mar 21, 2012
My iPhone is telling me to plug it into the itunes on my computer but when I do plug it in nothing happens apart from the sound which recognises that it is plugged into the computer and it starts to charge but stops after about 10 seconds, what can I do to stop this happening and to get the phone to syncronize to itunes?
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iPhone 3G
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Jun 5, 2012
I got a new computer and a new itunes acct. It trys to access old email from original setup and new email from new itunes acct. I cannot sync this without loosing everything. It won't let me set up and iCloud acct either because its trying old account.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 26, 2012
I have two I phones an old 3G and 4S.I use the 4S in the US and I planned to unlock the 3G in order to use it in France.I have itune on my computer and I would like to know if I can sync my two iphones on the same itune?
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iPhone 3G
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Jun 26, 2012
I have a new computer and have continually had problems syncing. Now it says computer is no longer authorized to play purchases on my iPhone. When I put in password etc. to authorize, it says it is already authorize. Then it syncs up to step 5 and repeats again. I have tried entering my password about ten times. Same thing. It is already authorized. But then when I try to sync, it says it is not authorized!
Info:iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1.1
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Apr 17, 2012
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The system is as follows:
Jailbroken iPhone 3g firm 3.1.2
iTunes 9.03
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Apr 25, 2012
My windows vista laptop has stopped recognizing my iphone and it doesn't show up in itunes. I can see the phone through windows explorer and I have used multiple cables, but it still won't recognize the device.
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iPhone 4, Windows Vista
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Aug 25, 2014
I reset my iphone 4 now it told me to connect to itunes I did that it restored and everything but it still saying counted to itunes and my computer shows a error ....
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iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.2
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Jul 7, 2010
I've got a 16GB 3GS running iOS 4.0 and all of a sudden today the phone refuses to back up. iTunes is giving me the error "iTunes cannot back up the iphone because an error occurred."
It continues to sync after that and move apps and music around, but it won't back up. I tried again after that and it wouldn't sync calendars, contacts, notes, etc. Whats going on here?By the way this is on a Macbook with the newest updates for Snow Leapord and iTunes.
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