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Greyed out Back up button on itunes

Hi,

I am trying to back up my ipad 2 (not using IOS 7 yet) to my PC. For some reason the 'back up to computer' is not avaiable and it says that 'your ipad has never been backed up to this computer'. It has never geen me the option to as the icon/button is unpressable. Anyone else had this?

You should be able to back up to your computer by connecing your iPad to your computer, opening iTunes, clicking on the name of your iPad in iTunes, going to the Summary tab of your iTunes sync settings and clicking Back Up Now.

Is that what you're doing?

is your itunes up to date?

edit-preferences-devices:  are there other backups?

I had the same problem as well and it looks like a lot of people have this problem.

I tried everything including deleting preferences list from library, restarting phone etc.

This seemed to do the trick:

https://hoschie.org/2013/02/itunes-idevice-backup-not-possible-greyed-out/

Because this guy's iTunes isn't in English I wasn't sure if I had the same problem. I don't recall disabling backups but maybe I did by accident one day. Anyway the ENABLE BACKUPS line is what you want to use. Close iTunes then open up Terminal, copy paste the line that starts with "defaults" and press enter. Reopen iTunes.

to ENABLE backups

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled

Not sure if this helps others but it helped me.

I entered that line in terminal exactly as typed, and it gave me this as a response:

Thanks this helped.

OS X 10.11.4

iTunes 12.3.3.17

Thank you. That fixed it.

OS X 10.11.5

iTune 12.4.1.6

Works like a charm! THX!

Thanks! That worked!

Thank you!!  Still works.  There ought to be a switch setting for this.

最後更新：2017-09-17 17:33:15

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