Can't sync photos - One possible issue is solved

To all those people tearing their hair out trying to sync photo's onto their iPod Classic, I have found one significant thing. After spending weeks trying to figure this out, I was down to analyzing the network traffic between my iPod and the library (which is pretty sad) and low and behold - I found something.
Since my photo library existed on my server, I was referencing it using a UNC path, which is perfectly fine EXCEPT it ended up being a very LONG PATH to my library of photos. In my network analyzer, it appeared that the path to the directory where I store my photos was getting truncated when being processed by my iPod sync. Ouch!
Sorry - I don't remember the exact length limit, but I fixed the problem by creating a share on my server for directory where I store my photos and mapping a drive letter on my workstation. Then in the iPod/ITunes Photo Tab, I changed the directory in the "Sync photos from" field to point to my very short drive letter.
There are certainly more problems with, but I think this is possibly one of the big problems with sych'ing photos.
Good luck!
Peter

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