Syncing video seems long!

[Mickeylittle]

I could be wrong but it seems that when I sync movies they are taking a good bit longer than before. When I sync it's good and fast and the backup takes less than a minute it's just the video. I timed it today and for 750 meg (3 NCIS episodes) it took 18 minutes after it started copying the 1st video. I seem to remember putting on a gig and a half for a couple movies in about 10 minutes. Is it me or is this slow.

imac 20 with 2GB ram
authentic cable
usb cable plugged into computer

[iphonewarrior]

Syncing video does take a while, if you are putting episodes onto the phone it's going to take a while, as it syncs in sections. Just be patient ;)

[psylichon]

18 minutes for that size sounds like it's connecting at USB 1.0 speeds. Have you tried another cable?

[Mickeylittle]

Thanks, I tried a second cable, then I tried a different USB port on the back of my iMac and it's consistently 17-18 minutes for 3 episodes and each episode is in the 270-275 MB range. It really seems like I was transferring 600-700 MB movies in the 5-6 minute range so I'll mess with it some more.

[Mickeylittle]

I just put 3 movies on my phone and it took 32 minutes. They totaled at 1.6 GB so I guess that's what I'm gonna get. Somewhere around 10-12 minutes a 2 hour movie around 6 minutes for a 45 minute episode. I do know that putting movies on an SD card for my old iPaq took about 1-2 minutes. Oh well.

[psylichon]

I would give Apple a call and see if they have any advice. That's definitely way slow. Are you running the latest firmware/iTunes version?

[Mickeylittle]

iTunes 9.0.2 (25)
os 3.1.2

I think it's slow too but just a regular sync is really fast! I guess I can just restore it and try without the jailbreak.

[psylichon]

Is it only certain video files or all video files? And are these files that used to sync quickly?

[Mickeylittle]

Dave I just copied a movie from the iMac hard drive that was 1.1 GB in 1.5 minutes! All these other movies and show episodes I have on an external hard drive!

[psylichon]

Ah... the external is USB? It's probably running at USB 1.0.

[Mickeylittle]

I have 2 externals. My new external just let me move a movie in 1.5 minutes so it is my old 500GB iomega that's the problem. I have 400+ movies on there that I guess I need to move to my new 1TB drive. I looked at doing that but it's saying 72 hours! Will that damage these hard drives for them to work so long?

[psylichon]

Naw, not at all. Is USB the only type of connection that the iomega supports?

[Mickeylittle]

Problem solved! I had the iomega plugged into one of those adapters which gives you 4 USB ports instead of one. I plugged it straight into my iMac and stuck on 3 episodes in 1 minute not 18! Sweet! So I'll just plug my new HD in with the firewire connection.

Thanks!:dft003:coolkid

[psylichon]

Yeah I hate USB for hard drives because of issues like this. Firewire FTW.

[Mickeylittle]

I've got to buy a new cable as my new HD came with a 400 Firewire and I think only an 800 will plug into my iMac. Hey but I just started the process of copying those 400+ movies to my new HD and instead of an estimated 72 hours it says about 2 hours! Sweet! Thanks again!