The New iPad will not sync all photo's

Did this about a week ago. Have added new pictures to PC folders, synced to iPad and have not had any more problems ... so far. 🙂

Thanks for this. Tried it just now. 4,468 photos copied perfectly.

Going off on a tangent, I want to rip VOB files from DVD to a format suitable for the iPad 3. Any particular program stand out as effective, easy to use & cheap? I use a laptop with Windows OS.

Checked with a savy friend. He said, DVD Fab is a great and simple program that allows you to RIP movies from DVD to several different formats. It has built-in settings for iPad, iPhone, etc... all basically just setting the file sizes, frame rates and resolution

I tried this, but it didn't work, I tried many times.

Ok... I have followed the advice and now my iPad just will not sync more than 10% of the photos in my photo folder. Out of just over 2000 images there are about 200 on my ipad and of each album that does make it over there are also missing images.

This is not good enough Apple. Do they ever read their own forums? I would like an official response to this thread because to be honest I've wasted a lot of time on this now and am ready to throw the towel in.

update: and just to rub it in I've just noticed there are STILL duplicate photographs on the albums that have made it.

Ok guys, so this is what I have done, like suggested by Cariocababy, I deleted my Cache and synched, the first time it didn't work, something happen to Itunes and it crashed, so I deleted again, synched again and Voila, 7704 photos synched!😀 Loving it, I forgot to add an album, went back, and added the album, 94 photos, and Voila again... You beauty, loving it😉. I said in an earlier thread that I deleted the Cache, but obviously I didn't do it properly, so please make sure you do, and A big thanks to Cariocababy... You are the best!

Oh, additional note, you don’t need to delete the photos on the ipad first as suggested, you don’t need to do anything else except for deleting the Cache, MAKE SURE that is done and it will work!

EXCITED....

I'll throw in that I also tried it a couple times without deleting the photos. Something I have done successfully in the past when there was a sync issue. For whatever reason, this time, no matter what, I couldn't get the pics to unjumble (ie, wrong pics in wrong albums). My final resort was deleting and then re-syncing. So, if just deleting the cache works, great, if not, try deleting and re-syncing.

Deleting the ipod photo cache worked.

New ipad. New upgrade to current version of iPhoto on the Mac. Only 40 of 165 photos in an album would sync. In finder, go to ~/usr/pictures/iphotolibrary, right click, open package contents and delete ipod photo cache.

Clearly a bug in itunes.

I deleted my ipod photo cache and since then it has never been recreated. Still photos are not being transferred. Syncing with Win7 and latest Itunes. Pictures are being handled by Adobe PS Elements.

Hi,

I have not read all of the posts above but I thought I would post what I did in case it was of any use to anyone. If this is old news then apologies.

Also, for the record, I think it's very poor that this problem exists and has not been addressed. The screen quality and display of photographs was a key feature for me when choosing to buy the new iPad and I am quite disappointed. I think it is important that people add their names to fora such as this so that Apple can see the size of the problem.

Anyway, I am using Windows 7 fully up to date with Windows Update at the time of writing. I was struggling to get past ten or so images onto the iPad. I tried syncing from a folder I had created on my desktop, which contained subfolders. I then took the images out of the subfolders so that there was only one folder containing all of the images. I then ran sync and predictably got a handful of pictures onto the iPad only.

Then, instead of deleting the iPod Photo Cache folders (all of those labelled F00, F01, F02, etc) I just deleted the Photo Database file at the bottom. Then I ran sync again and it topped up a bunch of photos whilst keeping the old ones on the iPad. I repeated this a few times and it did all of the photos in the folder. The number of photos it would add was unpredictable, sometimes tens sometimes over one hundred. I am only doing a few hundred in total as well; I guess if you were adding a lot this would become unworkable. However, I've done it twice now, removing all of them and retrying it and both times I topped them up to full.

Still, there are problems with the thumnails not matching each time and photos reappearing at odd intervals when scrolling through. And I have no working subfolders other than those that I make on the iPad.

Nevertheless, I now have something to look at... on the massively expensive retina screen that I spent hundreds on and which does not fit the purpose it was acquired for.

Thanks,

Heya Loqn,

Yeah I would try that but I have over 2000 images in my iPad folder :(

It's interesting, some people it works and some people it doesn't. This is one of them really annoying problems that sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't and to various degrees.

I might give it another go tonight but again I end up wondering why bother because we should not be having problems like this. I passed the Apple shop the other day and was half thinking of going in but as usual it was heaving with teens playing on the display models.

I will make it in at some point.

Going through the same issue as most are. Got a 32GB Wifi yesterday and out of 1660 images, iTunes transfers about 170 of them and then says its done. Funny thing is that my mom has an iPad2 and does not experience any of this. I've had it... it will be going back to the store tomorrow. I'm now considering the iPad2.

dkim3202 wrote:

Going through the same issue as most are. Got a 32GB Wifi yesterday and out of 1660 images, iTunes transfers about 170 of them and then says its done. Funny thing is that my mom has an iPad2 and does not experience any of this. I've had it... it will be going back to the store tomorrow. I'm now considering the iPad2.

Guys, why do you stick with this buggy and pretty much useless app (the stock Photos I mean)? Get a third-party image viewer like Photo Manager Pro and enjoy the iPad 3. It's so much better than the iPad 2.

Same problems, trying to transfer 150 pics (to ipad2). Dug through this thread, followed instructions below - worked for me, about 3 minutes of work.

"May 31, 2012 3:57 AM (in response to MerlinUK)

I had same issue with iPad 3. There are over 6,000 pictures on it to sync so doing this one by one stuff that everyone is discussing wasn't going to work for me. After a few aborted attempts, the following steps worked (as long as you have all your pictures on your PC):

In iTunes:

Uncheck Sync Photos in the Phots tab

Then Sync (it will tell you it's deleting all photos)

When Sync is complete, the only photos left on the iPad should be on the Camera Roll

On your PC, in the folder where all your pictures are, delete the iPhoto Cache folder [instructions below]

• From the Finder, choose Home from the Go menu.
• Once there, open the Pictures folder and locate the iPhoto Library file. (For Aperture, this is called Aperture Library.) If you have moved your iPhoto Library or Aperture Library to a different location, go to that location in Finder first.
• Control-click the iPhoto Library or Aperture Library file and choose Show Package Contents from the shortcut menu.
• In the next window, locate the iPod Photo Cache folder and drag it to the Trash. Important: Do not remove or modify any other file within the library package. Removing or modifying other files may cause data loss.
• Close the Finder window.

Check Sync Photos and select the appropriate folder to sync photos from

Sync again"

Good luck.