"Preparing to sync photos..." hanging forever N8

After recently being burnt I'm trying to work out the Ovi Suite sync-ing.
I thought I had it sorted, being careful, adding them an album at a time (for my own piece of mind as much as anything else)... then I add another album of pictures (which takes it over 500 photos total) and boom, it won't sync, it won't copy any more pictures to the device... it just hangs there. For example, about 30 mins ago I tried to sync my photos, now it just says "Preparing to sync photos..." and the progress bar has not moved at all. I can cancel it, but obviously this isn't much use since I want to copy the pictures over and/or sync from the phone.
Any ideas? Cheers
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A trusty turn-it-off-turn-it-on-again seemed to do the trick. It looks like my OVI Suite doesnt like having to deal with over 500 new pictures in one session :-S
As for albums - you can have either albums on your phone or on your OVI Suite (or both - they don't copy over as far as I can tell). The way to move pictures into albums is the same with in the suite or on your phone:
Highlight the pictures you want
Either right click or go to options
Add
Select either an existing or new album
Done
Pictures still show in the 'all' catagory, but you can also filter them by album. Enjoy :-)

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