iPad won't sync photos

Try here > iTunes: Understanding the iPod Photo Cache folder

For those of us for whom the "Delete the iPod cache" tip is no help, here are some clues I found out from going to a Genius Bar in NJ. The genius and level 2 genius were stumped but some progress was made that might offer some light on what the base problem is.

- They created a brand new ID on my MacBook (runnning Lion) and then imported my folder of JPGs into a pristine iPhoto environment. In the process of bringing in about 800 photos it relected about 80 of them saying they were ill formated. These same pictures display well in iPhoto under my primary ID and have also displayed on the iPad2 and iPhone4 but now are being rejected.

- The ~720 acceptable pictures sync to the two iOS devices under the new ID okay but if I ever try to sync under my usual ID it'll ask if it's okay to delete the existing photos - which won't be okay -- so until I actually need to sync some pictures this solution will be okay.

- In order to continue along with the new, working iPhoto environment I'll have to configure evey application and every bit of customization on my MB under the new ID and use it as my primary. I don't want to do that.

==> So why are these pictures now being rejected? What's going on between the old ID and the new one that the iPhoto environments won't import them?

Sounds like a software change / bug / "feature" that I hope will get fixed. Maybe I'll hunt the forums for info on JPGs no longer being accepted in iPhoto rather than digging the "photos won't sync" thing till the chickens come home.

Frank

Figured out what to do. In iPhoto I dragged into individual folders any event I'm trying to sync that has pictures being rejected and ran the entire contents of each of the folder through an image converter -- in my case XnViewMP. I converted from JPG to JPG into temp folders. Then I deleted the events in iPhoto and replaced them with the converted folders.

They now sync.

I made sure the conversion included meta data so I wouldn't lose geo location or rotation info and I think that worked.

Whew.

My concern with this workaround is a loss of JPEG quality in the conversion. JPEG is a lossy/compressible format, so each time one converts or re-saves an image, some of the original image data is lost to compression. I'm holding out in hope that a future iOS update resolves this issue.

Deleting the iPod Photo Cache worked for me too. Too bad it takes so long to rebuild if you have 4000+ photos!

Same here. iPhone4 syncs OK but iPad won't.

The saga continues...

- Converting JPG to JPG worked once and then the next sync the photos were gone and I was back to square 1.

- Converting to PNG helped some photos but not all.

- Changing to sync with a folder rather than iPhoto didn't help much but I got a different set of photos to sync -- which was again a su=ignificantly small subset of the overall set.

- I installed Stash Free and was able to easilly import any photo including ones that definitely fail with iTunes. Stash Free was able to export on the iPad one of the rejected pictures to the Photo app and it displays perfectly. I'll spring for the $4 and upgrade to the unlimited Stash app until iTunes or Phot gets fixed.

Frank

Dear Carolyn!

I can't thank you enough! With your help, I finally got my favorite photos back onto my iPad! I am grateful! Thanks for helping us so wonderfully!!

/kc

Hi. I have been having this problem and found it infuriating. The issue was confined to one 'event' in iPhoto. I moved all the photos in that event into trash. Then I synched my laptop with my iPad. Then I restored the photos back to the event in iPhoto and synched again. It worked!!! All photos transferred perfectly :-)

I did something similar to Alan 54 - basically one event was affecting the sync.

So I exported the event to a folder on my desktop (just drag the event).

Then deleted the event in iPhoto.

Then synced my iPad 2.

Then imported the event from my desktop back to iPhoto.

Then resynced - and it worked.

worked for me...thanks!

Deleting iPod Photo Cache, and restart of iPad worked like a charm. Thanks lady!

Worked beautifully Carolyn, everyone here can agree you ROCK! 🙂

Lovely work - nice and simple - Carolyn's initial solution worked - feel sorry for those who sound like they have bigger probs - and longer solutions.

Be interesting to see how this all morphs into the iCloud in a week or two from now. I'm led to believe it will be a seamless, wireless thing....

All the best!

I've been having this issue since performing one of the recent upgrades. Currently running iOS 4.3.5, OSX 10.7.1, & iPhoto 9.1.5.

Thanks for the Stash Free tip. I'm hoping it will work for me and will try it shortly.

Deleting the photo cache didn't work. Some of the other tips seem to complex for me and the issue is too widespread for me to export one event. Plus I have over 9000 picts.

This has to be a bug that did not exist before so I hope Apple will take notice and fix it!