Ipod cannot be updated because the disk cannot be read from or written to.

This error message comes up everytime I try to upload photos onto my ipod. I selected the folder to sync the photos from and I do not know why it will not upload. Does anyone know what to do?

Alexander,
I did what you suggested. In fact, this is what I did:
In iTunes I changed the root folder the photos sync from by going iTunes > Preferences > Photos > Synchronize photos from : and chose the Pictures folder instead of the iPhoto option.
After iTunes "optimized" the photos and copied them to the iPod I got an error message saying that some images would not be copied because they could not be displayed by my iPod. I glanced quickly through the photos on the iPod and found that most of my library copied over. Of course, I lost all the album information. I suppose I could make an iPod album in iPhoto and use it as the root folder for sync-ing. That's a better fix, at least, than not being able to move photos at all. Thanks for the tip.
Chad

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