How to fix -48 error when syncing iPod with iTunes for Mac - Computers - Data Recovery

iTunes makes it quite easier for you to sync media from your Mac computer to your Mac iPod, and the other way around. You can update song, videos, podcasts and other content on your iPod without much hassle. It is because of this unique feature that an iPod has soared the popularity charts. Though, at times you may face some problems while syncing your iPod to Mac machine. This behavior can be seen in many instances including corrupt iPod software or a possible iPod disk corruption. In both the events, you would be required to restore your iPod, followed by quick recovery of lost data from an updated backup copy. However, in absence of a backup, you must try using a Mac iPod recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you connect iPod to your Mac machine in order to sync new songs and videos, and instead receive the following error:

"Attempting to copy to the disk "Customer's iPod" failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)"

As a result of the above error message, you cannot add any new content to your iPod. At other occasions, you could also get subject to data loss from iPod.

Cause

The above error could surface in the following scenarios:

If your iPod has a corrupt softwareOr if your iPod's disk is corrupt or damaged

Resolution

The issues with the iPod and iTunes can be resolved completely by restoring the iPod using the latest version of the iTunes for Mac. You can download the latest version of iTunes from the Internet and connect your iPod to your Mac machine via USB port in order to restore it.

Restoring brings an iPod back to default factory settings and hence, all the data from it gets completely wiped off. In order to recover data, you must either use an updated backup or an Mac iPod data recovery software.

Such tools employ effective scanning algorithms and extract data from a restored iPod in an efficient manner. Moreover, these iPod data recovery mac tools, being read-only, do not even modify the original data.

Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery is a user-friendly yet powerful application which recovers lost, deleted or formatted iPod data - songs, videos, audio books, podcasts, photos - from both Classic and Shuffle models. This Mac iPod data recovery application recovers all audio(MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG, RPS, M4P, AU, WMA, MP3, WAV), video(MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG, RPS, M4P, AU, WMA, MP3, WAV) and photo(JPEG, TIF, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RAW, JPG, NFF, CD5, PNG, PGM, PNM, Exif ) formats.

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