Syncing photos stuck on step 3 of 3 with iPod Classic

Hello!
I have a iPod Classic 160GB and I have iTunes 12 (latest version 12.1.1.4) on Windows Vista.
The problem is when I want to sync my photos, it always gets stuck on Step 3 of 3. I tried to be patient, so I let my iPod connected for 8 hours, but it was still stuck on step 3 when I looked again...
All the other syncs work fine (I manage my music manually and I don't have any problems with that).
I restored my iPod, but it didn't work.
I tried to delete only one of my photos folders and sync again, but it didn't work either.
I've looked at other posts on the Internet, but I couldn't find anything that can help me.
Can anybody help me with that?
Thanks A LOT!

I had it hanging on Calendar sync as well ...
This worked for me:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
I also had crazy dupes of calendar items previously except on my iphone, so the idea was to get the singular calendar of events synced back to my computer. So ...
I made sure Calendar was empty on my computer: ~/Library/Calendars/
Cleared out. Emptied Trash.
Then per above link, cleared sync services from terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync .pl full
Plugged in iPhone, set my prefs again, sync'ed. Went thru the sync quickly and got everything back to normal with only single events.
The key here (on dupes) is to have at least ONE version of your calendar in good shape. And that may be thru your iphone backups.
(sorry I know I switched thread topics, but sync and dupes seem to go hand in hand)
Hope this helps.
Rich
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