ITunes 11.3 hangs during syncing

I'm having trouble syncing with iTunes 11.3.  It gets the "syncing calendar" stage and just stays there.  I left it for several hours.  I can cancel out of it, but my calendar is not synced.  I tried turning off automatically syncing, but it does the same thing when I sync manually.  I also tried totally removing all of the apple installs and reinstalling and that didn't make any difference.
This worked fine in the past.  It's only since iTunes updated itself that I started having trouble.
Tom

Alright, thank you for the update. You should next look for an 3rd party plugins that may be causing an issue, with this article:
iTunes: Troubleshooting issues with third-party iTunes plug-ins
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3430
If the issue persists you can download and install the latest version of iTunes directly from our website, then restart the computer and test again:
https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
If the issue persists, you may want to recreate your iTunes Library with the following article:
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451

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