Lost flagged photos

I synced an event with over 1200 photos to my iPad. In iPhoto for iOS, I spent ages sorting through all my photos and flagged the photos I liked. Today I opened iPhoto on my iPad, which now shows that zero photos have been flagged. All the flags have somehow been removed. I opened iPhoto on my Mac and only some of the flags have synced back, a lot are missing.
I am really quite angry about this. I spent ages flagging hundreds of photos and all that work has simply vanished! I really expect more from Apple from their new flagship iOS app. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?

That is a bummer.
I just don't think iPhoto for iOS is meant to be such a heavy duty photo app. Hopefully your flags can be restored with a reboot. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously ignoring the red slider until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the iPad restart. See if that fixes your problem.

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There are no Apple employees here. This forum is for users to talk to other users.
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I will describe my whole work flow for easier description.
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Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
First, empty the Trash, if possible.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ 2>&- | wc -l | pbcopy
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be a number. It's automatically copied to the Clipboard. Please paste it into a reply.
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This worked great in Iceland where I had 50up/50down internet, but not so great at an agriturismo in Italy where I was getting something like 50% packet loss on their point-to-point wifi internet connection!
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Hi
Where is the information on flagged photos stored? Is this in a plist file anywhere?
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