Stuck in the "preparing to sync" step

While trying to sync music to my iPod Touch 4th Generation, it gets stuck in the "preparing to sync" step.  The music will show up in my library as unplayable, not fully synced files, and I can no longer add or remove files to and from my iPod properly.  Can anyne offer me any assistance?

Thanks Shootist007, by blockd files I mean files that I have changed to blocked and when I tried to move then for the first time, I had to unblock again. I am trying to backup my pictures, my songs and other files like word documents and excel tables. First I put all of them as blocked, what caused the first problems on trying to move them. Then, I've unchecked the block option and if I try to move one by one, there is no problem. The issue is to move all together, because it gets stuck in the preparing to copy files step. Anyway, if I cannot do all by once, I'll do it one by one, event though that was not suposed to happen if we are talking about technology, right? Anyway, I thank you again for trying to help me!

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