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One possible fix for an iTunes -50 sync error
Authored by: kevinolive on Sep 29, '07 11:14:06AM

I had this same problem (-50) error and really thought that I had screwed up my iPhone because of using AppTapp. I'm happy to find that wasn't the problem. I did an awful lot of things to try to remedy this and should've recognized that it wasn't a problem with the iPhone but iTunes or iPhoto.

It turned out that using xmllint uncovered a ctrl-Y embedded in the AlbumData.xml file. I used vi to remove the bad data, resaved the file into the iPhoto library and it started working again.

I suspect there was a sharing error that caused data corruption. My iPhone was syncing via iTunes at the same time I was importing/deleting photos from the iPhone. Of course, I'll never know if this is really what happened. It is possible that the AppTapp modifications had an effect but I think that's a slight possibility.



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