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Top Tip! Fixing iTunes Error - "The iPod Cannot Be Synced. The Required File Is Locked"
Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 09:41.
If you are receiving "The iPod [iPod Name Here] Cannot Be Synced. The Required File Is Locked" error while trying to sync your Apple iPod using iTunes as shown below the fix could be pretty simple.
All the error means is that iTunes is unable to read/write to the database file inside your device, their could be several possible reasons for the error which might be recoverable depending on the cause of the error.
There are two common reasons for this error, first being database corruption due to syncing error or physical media corruption and second being library getting locked out for writing due to read-only attribute.
In most cases this error can be solved as follows:
- Open My Computer and navigate to your iPod disk, now Right-Click the iPod_Control folder and remove the read-only attribute if on.
- Now, Open My Computer, Right-click your iPod disk drive and click Properties.
- Goto Tools and click Check Now button from "Error-checking section".
- Check "Automatically fix file system error" and Click Start.
- Let the scan complete, eject your iPod and reconnect.
- If you still receive the error, try restoring your iPod from iTunes.
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Unable to sync iPod due to locked required file
Finally, after weeks of not being able to sync my iPod and spending hours researching the reason and trying every suggestion(I hadn't locked any files)I found this site. After following the steps shown here my iPod is syncing as I write this. I had added new music and pictures to my pc and was unable to add them to my iPod. Thank you for this solution.
what do you mean by that?
I don't get what you mean when you say navigate to your iPod disk, now Right-Click the iPod_Control folder... what if it doesn't show that when you click on my computer... and i'm not good with computers so i don't really know what to do... but my ipod touch won't sync on my iTunes it says error and shows numbers... so how do i fix it?
Reply to Anonymous
Dear Anonymous,
Ipod_Control is a hidden folder that contains the songs and movies that you put on your iPod. For it to show, you may do this: select "Search", click on "All files and folders", type "iPod Control" on the text box marked "All or part of the file name", click on "More advanced options", check "Search hidden files and folders", click "Search" and you're all set!
When the iPod_Control folder appears, right click that folder and select "Properties". Uncheck the "Read-only" check box and then follow all the other steps above.
To the author of the thread above, thanks a lot! You're a really big help!
xoxo,
Nadine
SAME ERROR WHILE SYNCING MY IPHONE
CAN U TELL ME HOW TO RESOLVE THE SAME ISSUE WID MY IPHONE....I TRIED THE ABOVE STEP BUT COULD'NT FIND THE IPHONE DISK IN MY COMPUTER.....SO I WASNT ABLE TO PERFORM ANY FURTHER STEPS.....LETMME TELL U MY PHONE IS GETTING DETECTED AS I CAN SEE THE CHARGING SIGN ON MY PHONE AND ALSO WHEN I OPEN ITUNE......IT IS ABLE TO DETECT......SO CAN U PLS TELL ME HOW 2 FI THIS?
ERROR: "THE IPHONE CANNOT BE SYNCED THE REQUIRED FILE IS LOCKED"
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