Can’t Sync iPhone Photos: ‘The iPhone “Name’s Phone” cannot be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.’

When trying to sync photos between your iPhone and your Mac, you get an error:

The iPhone “Name’s Phone” cannot be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.

To resolve this issue, you will need to delete the iPod Photo Cache file on your Mac.

1. Go to your Pictures folder (~/Pictures).

2. Hold down the Control button on your keyboard, click the iPhoto Library file and select Show Package Contents.

3. Locate the iPod Photo Cache folder and delete it.

Now try to run through the sync process. Hopefully it works now.

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Last modified March 22, 2012

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Colin Thames July 9, 2011 at 11:12 am: I know this is a late reply, but for those using Windows the Folder to delete is in your My Pictures library, or wherever you have chosen to sync your iPod or iPhone.

Many thanks for the solution
Grateful December 11, 2010 at 1:49 pm: Woa!Thanks mate! you’re good at this. Saviour!
Gabriel August 23, 2010 at 9:56 am: I was having this problem, only when i was trying to sync the album from my iPhoto. I even went to the genius bard this saturday and the only told me to restore as a new phone, and of course it didn’t work. After thinking for a while i went to the iPhoto cache and deleted the “iPod Photo Cache” folder and that was it!
To find it go to the finder, select the iPhoto application and right click and then select “Show Package Contents”

FIXED
sam March 28, 2010 at 1:14 am: …urghhh..THANKS A LOT..YOU SAVE MY IPHONE…