So last night I got in from work and did the usual – went straight to my computer and plugged my iPhone in to sync it up. I came back to the comp after my dinner and noticed the I had an error on the screen: ‘The sync could not be completed, the disk could not be read or written to’. No biggy I thought. Just do it again. Same error. Gulp. Change the USB port. Try again. Same story. Blind Panic.

Started googling the problem. Usual generic responses on apple threads ‘roll back iTunes, Restore, take to apple store’. Fuck all that man. I’ve been there and it ain’t nice.

In my desperation I unplugged the phone and went back to my Spectrum +3 days when I used to blow on the metalic strip of the floppy disk if a game wouldn’t load. In this case, the pins on the bottom of the iPhone. I noticed a wee flutter in there when I blew. Cue me pulling out a massive nasty collection of fluff with a paperclip.

Plugged the phone back into comp. Sync succesfull.

My life is back on track.

Phew.