Itunes : Ipad does not appear as device

I have this annoying problem since udating to ios6
When i connect my ipad to my Mac itunes cannot find it. There is no devices tab.
Yet, for some reason itunes did detect an app installed on the ipad and synced it over..

Try using a different USB port. You may also need to uninstall/reinstall iTunes. Every new iOS means a new driver to tell your computer what to do with the device. If that driver didn't get installed, you need to trigger it. That's what the unplugging/replugging does, as well as uninstalling/reinstalling iTUnes.
You should have had to update iTunes in the past couple of weeks. An iTunes update preceeded the iOS update.
You can also go into 'my computer' and 'add remove programs' and look for the 'apple mobile device driver'. Remove that, then try the unplug/replug. That driver is what tells your computer how to handle the iPad and deleting it can trigger the reinstall.

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