IPad cannot be synced due to insufficient space

Please can anyone assist.
I am having a problem with my iPad 2 when I try to sync it using iTunes.
There is about 18Gb free on it, the number of photos I wish to update onto it is about 200 but I keep getting an 'insufficent space' error.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Connect to iTunes and see the bottom bar. What does it say? How much free space. Then go and check how much space does 200 photos take up.

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Hi,
I know similar cases were posted here but I did not find something that matched my case:
Here is the message I got:
The iPad cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items in the iTunes library (1 MB required, 4.29 GB available).
Obviously I have 1M space if I have 4.29GB of space.
I do not have any music or photos
I just updated the current apps I have and did an synced several new apps with a total of about 500M (which is far less then the free ~4GB I have)
Any ideas how to solve this?
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