Photo's not syncing

Hi all,
Hoping someone can help me as I can't see what I am doing wrong here.
New iPad arrive this morning (woo hoo), however the photo's are just not syncing properly and never had any issues with the iPad 1. My photos are stored on an external hard drive and iTunes is set up to sync from the folder names 'Pictures' and then 'All folders'.
When I press the sync button it analyses the library etc and it shows that there are 3009 photos in total however it doesn't import all of them, in fact the last attempt it only important 6 picutres from one folder and there were a good 150 in there!
I have searched help and deleted the cache folder etc but it's still not doing me any good.
Any help?!
Thank you

I had the very same problem. iTunes synchronized a few pictures, and then just stopped. I was able to manually progress, though found out that I needed to double-check everything because additionally, pictures got mixed up (right preview picture, wrong picture when choosing it, and so on).
What appears to be a stable workaround for me is reducing image size. For that, I chose 2048 pixels for the longes side of the picture, to match the display, and this reduced size/resolution has solved all the problems I had - synchronizing pictures works without any hiccups. (I can't be sure if the problem is dependent on the hardware configuration, of course).

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