Itunes cannot read the contents of the iphone??

[muchuchu]

Thank you so much! I deleted the "Itunescdb" file because i don't have the "ItunesDB" file. When I restarted itunes, my ipod touch 4th gen with iOS 5.0 is successfully syncing!! thanks to all you!
I started to get the error "Itunes cannot read the contents of the iphone. Go to the summary tab in IPhone preferences and click restore to restore this iphone to factory settings" when I deliberately halted the syncing of my iPod because I needed to be somewhere. While it is still syncing, i clicked the "x" button many times and closed iTunes without properly ejecting my iPod.
Lesson Learned:Do not shortcut everything. It messes up things..

Thanks again guys!

[KiraXD]

so i just had this problem with my Jailbroken iPhone 4 on iOS 4.2.1

deleted the iTunesDB and iTunesCDB and the iTunes Music so im back to clean filespace. Synced phone to itunes added about 30 tracks.


next day... i try to sync again... and i get the same error AGAIN. even though i got it working the previous day... do i have to clear the itunesdb and cdb EVERY time i need to sync my phone to itunes? whats the underlying cause? am i doing something wrong?

[scc4fun]

FYI, this worked for me. I had not synced my phone in quite some time otherwise I would likely just restore to iOS 5.0.

I deleted iTunesCDB from /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control/iTunes/. I used iFile to do it directly on my iPhone. I had been able to view all the music on my phone previous to this. I also deleted all the folders under Music (F00 through F49). This got rid of most of the Other that iTunes was showing.

I am currently re-syncing my phone.

iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) running iOS 4.1 Jailbroken
iTunes 10.5.0.142 (latest version as of October 30, 2011)
Windows XP

FYI, these same instructions work with my
iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) now running iOS 5.0 Jailbroken.
iTunes 10.5.1.42 (latest version as of December 4, 2011) on Windows XP

[Adem09]

I have deleted the iTunesCDB file from /private/var/moblie/Media/iTunes_control/iTunes. I have also deleted all of the folders from my music file. iTunes still tells me that i have 8gb of other data. Am I missing a step? Where else would my music data be stored?