iPhone 4S: Can't sync photo albums since latest update

Hi Ken:

I too files a report on the iPhoto feedback page. If you have the time please do so also - hoping that it will make the developers at Apple do something about it.

Have nice weekend

I'm just adding my name to the list. After iOS 6 and the latest Mountain Lion and iPhoto upgrade, I can't sync photos anymore. The "selected" option is greed out.

So did I !!! The more feedback they get the quicker they will fix. ...reading the earlier blogs an identical thing happened when iTunes was upg to 9.x and apparently Apple fixed the bug without any updates

It isn't mountain lion. I don't have it. The common thing seems to be the most recent iPhoto update, 9.4

Tried rebuilding library, deleting ipod cache, restarting iphone (4s, with iOS6), itunes doesn't see the photo library ("no events" in the greyed out box).

I am having the same problem. I am still on Lion (10.7.5) and iOS 5 (due to the map fiasco in iOS 6). I am pretty certain it is the iPhoto 9.4 update I did yesterday.

Check out this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4315650?answerId=19675108022#19675108022

It has something to do with ampersands in the album slideshow music, if you can believe it. It seems to have fixed the issue for me.

Fixing the ampersand problem by folliwng

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4315650?answerId=19675108022#19675108022

worked for me. Amazing.

Fixed!! The fix suggested here did not work (changing the music in the slideshow) but deleting the actual slideshow did. So if the first doesn't work.... So I am presuming that there was a problem with this ancient slideshow. very very stupid.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4315650?answerId=19675108022#19675108022

I just deleted all of my slideshows. There really aren't needed anymore since you can play slideshows from albums. Anyway, problem solved. Syncing now works. Thanks all for the help.

yep -- sad little fix, but a fix, nonetheless. Deleted all mine (losing a neato title slide in the process, but oh, well), and syncing as we speak.

Thanks, all

OK, I spoke to soon. Maybe I have more problems then everyone else. I realize now that even though it syncs and everything appeared to be OK about 20% of my photos randomly will not transfer. I have tried over and over and even tried sync'ing by specific album, but whichever way I do it the same random photos do not sync. For example I have an album with 84 photos, but only 36 sync'd. There is no particular pattern I can find as to why some photos are snyc'ing and others are just missing. When it sync's it says the number of photos it is sync'ing from the main library, but when I check on my phone it's short about 1000 photos. There are a random number missing from most of my albums.

Anyway I gave up with this iPhoto update. I reloaded my old library and the last version of iPhoto from Time Machine and everything immediately sync'd perfectly. No errors, and no photos missing.

It didn't seem the update was a big deal anyway. I rather have my photos on my phone; that's the whole point of buying all Apple isn't it; so all your stuff is easily sync'd across all devices?

Good luck everyone. I hope I'm the only one with these additional problems.

is there a fix

Sad but true. I've given up til a fix from apple.

I had mostly the same problem as you and, thanks to these great comments, fixed the problem by deleting my slideshows from iPhoto (you would thiink they'd work on that issue in some sort of update). It does work and it seems all the photos I chose have been synced.

I too have done my first iPhone 4 sync after updated to the new operating system and latest version of iTunes. At first, I had about 5 photos randomly sync from a couple of albums, but not all of them. Now, none of the photos are syncing at all. Unlike some people, I had nothing greyed out in iTunes, so I could choose to sync either my entire photo library or certain albums. The problem is that neither worked. My photos portion of my phone now only contains only Camera Roll pics (photos I have taken with the phone), but no pics that I have always been able to sync from albums on my computer.

When I am in iTunes and go to the "photos" tab, I can see the albums I have selected to sync, and it says how many pics are in each album (which is correct based on my photo collection in my computer). So iTunes is clearly recognizing the number of photos that are in each album I want to sync to my phone, and when I do a sync, it tells me that it's importing photos to my phone for quite a long time. Then, no photos end up in my phone. Very frustrating! And for someone like me who isn't very tech-capable, I have no idea what to do?????