iPad 3rd gen photos won't sync

Im having the same problem as everyone else here. I am trying to transfer a relatively small set of photos, 40 to be exact and am getting only 2, 8, 9, 12, 14, 32, as many as 39 once, but never all 40 of the images from the shoot.

We can try everything and maybe even come across a solution like reducing picture dimensions, but it's still not what we expected. iPad was designed to make our lives easier and not to waste a lot of time findin a workaround.

Especially for such a simple action like syncing pictures with a computer.

BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

QUESTION: is this happing to ALL Ipad 3? If I return my IP3 for another... will the same photo sync issue continue? I may go back to the IP 2.

Can't believe they have not fixed this.

It really does appear to be an iTunes problem. It looks like iTunes times out when trying to convert a significant number of larger resolution photos for transfer to the iPad. Someone thinks they've fixed it, clearly with the new iTunes release, but they have not.

You can get it around it by taking the same photos and resizing them to the iPad 3 resolution - 2048x1536 - and then you can synch as many as you like. I did about 9000 pictures in 46 folders after resizing them.

Take the same folder without resizing and it dies after 5-6 pictures.....

How does Apple not understand the severity and presence of such a problem?

apple doesnt understand because apple doesnt know, all of us are just posting the complaints here which is NOT monitored by apple, we all have to call their tech support and demand a resolution...

Try posting something about it on their Facebook sites. They scrubbed my reference to this thread in minutes!!

OK, folks, I've registered my complaint directly with Apple support by phone. I was told that the best additional place to report bugs of this type is http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html as this site is monitored by the Apple developers. I've left my flame on this site, and encourage everyone to do the same. We need to carpet bomb the developers to let them know the level of outrage over this utterly inexcusable bug.

Registered complaint as per Trickard. Spoke with AppleCare today. Said I needed to downsize my photos below 3000 x whatever. No real solution for now. No real admission either.

what is annoying me is that with the amount of people having the same problem apple are saying to me when i phone that they have not had any reports of this issue and it is user specific come on. and i am on my 3rd ipad3 from the shop. and all these photos are on my ipad2 its a joke.😠

I contacted Apple on the same issue, and after escalating within their support network, was told I had a defective iPad. Returned my two day old 3rd gen iPad and waited two weeks for a replacement. Tried syncing my DSLR photos again, only to experience the same issue all over again. Sold my iPad 2 (no syncing issues what so ever) so like many of you, could experience my high quality photos on the new display. Wow, do I ever have buyer's remorse.

yeah still not working for me with the new update. 8,000 photos in 11 folders. i got the 64gb to hold a lot of pictuers and i still cant sync them,.

How come with all these issues when I spent over 7 hours this week with three different 'senior advisors' and asked them whether this was a known issue they all said no!

I have had masses of problems BUT with little credit to apple support have managed to get 21,000 photos on the new Ipad3 with a 99%+ final success rate.

I did find that completely uninstalling itunes, including the additional programs in the advised order - itunes,quicktime,app soft update, app mob dev supp, bonjour, apple app supp and then reinstalling itunes helped.

I have 31,000 sorted into around 60 subfolders (and lots of sub sub folders which it won't recognise a separate folders on the ipad but never seemed to have a problem importing). So was able to import around 2,000 at a time. Nearly every time it failed the ipod photo cache had the right number of ithmb images but the photos that didn't sync equalled in number the ithmbs with a size of zero bytes and I deleted them. Sometimes it stopped before it even got to that stage but I just synced again .

Deleting the photo cache folder made things worse once I had pictures on the ipad so I never did.

However I still have an issue with memory capacity used. My ipod photo cache is now showing 21,717 files 47GB with about 30 less on the ipad but the memory allocation in itunes is showing 39GB photos and 8GB other. This is an itunes optimisation reduction of 15% compared with the original photos on the computer i.e. 2.7Mb average on computer 2.3Mb on ipad. When I first started doing the sync before it all started going wrong I got up to 16,000 and around 24GB a much better optimisation rate

Any feedback on the size reduction from those who have got photos on the new ipad would be welcome. When I download hi res photos from some of the free apps they look great at around 0.5MB so 2.3Mb average seems excessive - looking at photocache they go up to 8Mb per photo for the ipad.

I should have added my standard photo size is 3264x2448 but it managed to sync stitched panoramas up to 13,000 x 2448

Feel free to mention my case # for this very issue and see what they have to say. It is 299189977.