Cannot import photos to iPad -- "missing file"

When I sync my iPad, everything seems to be going well, but at the end I get the message "iPad cannot be synced. The required file cannot be found." Everything syncs fine except the photos. My photos are in iPhoto, and are stored in the default file on the computer. All the categories show up on the iPad, but the photos themselves are blank. The iPad gives the message, "iTunes sync needed. High Resolution images synced via iTunes are missing." It then tells me to connect to the computer and sync with iTunes. There is no problem syncing them to my iPhone, so the file seems to be missing from the iPad, not iTunes.
I would reinstall Photos on the iPad, but I don't know how. Any thoughts? Thanks.

I'm having intermittent problems with 3rd Gen iPad, Canon EOS 60D and iOS 6. Never had a single upload problem with iOS5, but version 6 is very hit and miss on uploading. It's very frustrating to spend a few minutes ticking the photos you want to upload, only to have them fail with red exclamation marks. The only solution appears to be disconnect and power off everthing (including the iPad), turn iPad on, wait until booted, then reconnect cable, then power up the camera. Import usually works after this, but it's a bit of a pain. No sign of a fix from iOS 6.01.

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When you import your photos "into" the LR catalog, LR can copy the images off your memory cards to the hard drive if you have not already copied them, but the photos are referenced by the LR catalog by the path and filename for the files.
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IMG_0192.JPG
IMG_0193.JPG
IMG_0194.JPG
IMG_0195.JPG
IMG_0196.JPG
IMG_0197.JPG
IMG_0198.JPG
IMG_0199.JPG
IMG_0200.JPG
IMG_0201.JPG
IMG_0202.JPG
IMG_0203.JPG
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Sounds like the camera memory card (CompactFlash) contains one or more corrupted image files.
If the images are not important, you may be able to correct the problem by reformatting the memory card with the camera setup menu. Of course that will destroy any images currently on the card.
If you choose to do that, quickly do a few test images and try importing them to verify that the card was successfully reformatted and that the test images can correctly be imported.
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One of my flash cards came with a free one (for Windows) that I use.
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A quick search revealed this link. I downloaded, installed it, and recovered a deleted file, but I have not used the free version extensively, so I cannot vouch for it, or the paid upgrade.
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I cannot import photos to my iphoto from any of my devices. The error message reads - iphoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem downloading an image. I have deleted the last images- this did not help. any suggestions?

Details please
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my ipad is losing charge very quickly and I have been told by apple genius bar support that the battery is working fine. They say I need to back up the ipad and then reload from scratch. But they say that if I simply use the back up I am likely to have the same problem, so what I really need to do is make sure that my photos are safe and then can choose what to reload. But I have a windows pc not a mac and I cant see how to transfer the photos on the ipad to the computer. Apple say they know nothing about windows computers. Any easy, non technical ideas please?

First of all, you can use iTunes or iCloud to backup your data on iPad. If you have no idea on how to make a backup, you can go to :http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977
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From the beginning, I simply connected the iPad2 to my Mac with the USB, and all photos were uploaded onto my Mac. I've followed all the directions to get updates for both Mac and iPad2. Now none of my new photos upload onto the Mac. Can you help?

I'm not sure how you were importing the photos on your Mac but the two ways that I know of are with iPhoto and Image Capture.
Open iPhoto and go to Preferences>General>Connecting Camera Opens - and you can select iPhoto or Image Capture.
Connect your iPad to your Mac and Open Image Capture. Click on devices and then at the bottom of the left side you can select - Connecting this iPad Opens - and choose the app of your choice from there. These are copied and pasted from Help in the two applications.
When you connect the iPad now, one of the chosen applications will open and let you import the images.
To import photos from iPad:
Connect your iPad to your computer using the Dock Connector to USB cable that came with your iPad.If iPhoto wasn’t already open, it opens for you (unless you changed this preference in iPhoto or your iPad is locked).After your iPad is connected and turned on, iPhoto opens in import view and your iPad appears in the Source list.
By default, iPhoto divides photos into separate Events during the import process.You can optionally enter a description in the Event Name field.If you don’t want iPhoto to automatically create events, deselect the Split Events checkbox at the bottom of the window.If you want to change the time frame used to sort your photos into Events, you can change it in iPhoto preferences.
If you don’t want to see photos that you’ve already imported into iPhoto, select the Hide Photos Already Imported checkbox at the bottom of the window.
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To import all the photos shown in the iPhoto window, click Import All.
To import a selection of photos, press the Command key while clicking photo thumbnails, or drag to select a group of photos, and then click Import Selected.
To cancel photo transfer at any time during your import, click Stop Import. Then, in the dialog that appears, choose to continue importing the photos, keep the photos that have been imported and stop importing the remaining photos, or delete the photos that have been imported.
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Transferring items automatically
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