ITunes freezes on "finishing sync."

My 4th gen iPod Touch will not get off of "finishing sync" in iTunes. It was stuck on "determining which tracks to sync" but then I changed my settings to manual sync. I'm not attempting to load much content, so it shouldn't be that type of issue. Any ideas?

Try a hard reset and go from there.
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