Photo sync issues after 10.8.2, iOS 6, iPhoto 9.4 upgrades

I'm not willing to search a huge library for a music title with a "&" in it. I think that Apple should work for me and not the other way round! I'm waiting for real solution and not a workaround, where I have to delete slide shows or change titles of songs and arists...

I'm glad that I had a Time Machine backup! I'm using the old version again, that didn't cause this problem.

Guys you are great, deleted the & from one album in iPhoto's music and hey presto, problem solved. Apple need to pull their fingers out though and fix this.

Thanks for the informatoin I tried it on my iPod touch and it worked now onto the iPhone and iPad. 🙂

I don't have any slide shows what am I missing here?

I have played albums as slideshows in the past and I noticed one of the songs in the slide show music has an artist name with the & in it... do I have to go through all my albums and try and look for this song?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks for the quick sync issue fix. The larger problem I guess we will have to wait until they get back to us re: the grayed out Photo selection in ITunes. Don't understand why they didn't see this before. But hey thanks for all your great work and effort. Really appreciate it. 🙂

elbenoit,

Go to the offending album in iPhoto and start the slideshow. Now change the song to any other song that doesn't have a "&" in the title. Restart both iPhoto and iTunes just to be sure. That should solve the issue assuming there was only the one problem album. You may also want to go to that song in iTunes and change the "&" to "and".

same problem as everyone im gonna wait unitl apple fixes it, I did submit a bug report also

sorry for the what seems like simple question, how to I go back to iphoto 9.3 for ipad using time capsule?

@ blangen thank you I will try this!

the problem for me though is that I have like 200 albums and over time I've randomly watched them as slideshows... what a pain.

maybe I can try and find the offending song file and just change that. it is not in my itunes, it is hidden in iPhoto somewhere with their stock music files, (along with 'you've got a friend in me', etc)..

thank you again for your help!

Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions. I fixed the problem.

The full instructions for the fix is in this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4314310?answerId=19689332022#19689332022&tstart=0#19689332?tstart=0

Basically you open up the iphoto library and open the album data xml using a text editor. use the search function to find all of the music containing "& " < that is, search for an ampersand with a space after it, no quotes.

Jot down the album names with the "& "and close out the xml. Dont save any changes!

Then go back to iPhoto, open the offending albums and play a slide show with a different song that does not contain the & in the name, artist etc. You have to actually play the slide show for the change to take effect. I just set a default tune and quickly played all the offending albums as slideshows for a few seconds each.

Luckily for me I only had about 10 of these albums. "Bob Marley & The Wailers" was the artist that caused all of this trouble for me. Bob Marley! Of all things!

Karma all around!

Had the same issue after upgrading to iOS 6 - thanks for the tip - I think it might have been that for some reason in the upgrade phots were checked to sync all photos with iPhoto - with the size of my iPhoto library, there would be no way the data could fit on the iPad - deselected sync photos and everything fine

Thank you, what a star.

I removed the slide show with the offending & and all was then OK.

Such a relief, I thought it was my iPhone 5 for a minute!

Today I was at my local AppleStore (Frankfurt) to have a look at the new iPhone and there I found a Genius to whom I explained Joseph's solution for the sync-BUG. He has already have such an "iPhoto case" in the morning and was glad to know the fix now. I asked him if he can pass our solution on to some developers and I hope he'll do so 😉 We'll see...😎

I seem to have the same problem as well. In itunes it would seem like I have a mixture of a old iPhoto libary and multiple events. Example: under Faces I have old people that i haven't had in faces on iphoto in quite some time. I also have like 20, April 23 2012 events. Also, All of my events in itunes are out of order, and I've tried everything to get it to fix it's self. There is a obvious problem with the update, Again, This is starting to seem very routine now days, and starting to **** me off

Excellent. Only found one offending entry. Changed it in iPhoto on slideshow to default music and sync worked like a charm. Wow! Can't believe one very old setting could cause this. Thanks!