Trouble syncing photos to Nano

Help! I can't get photos loaded from my PC to my new Nano. When I'm in iTunes, I sync the photos from the folder. The computer says the photos are optimizing, then the header says "updating iPod." After that it seems like it's complete, but in the corner, it still says 0 Photos and they aren't on my iPod. If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it!!

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I have a 1st generation 4GB nano, with up to date firmware (version 1.3.1, Mac formatted). I'm using iTunes version 7.6 (29) and having trouble syncing photos (from iPhoto) to my nano.
I have configured iTunes to sync photos from only one, relatively small set, and have not turned on the full resolution copies. If I leave a bunch of space free on my ipod (over 100 MBs) then my photos sync fine. However, when there is less space free, but still seemingly enough space to fit the photos, iTunes tells me "No photos were copied to the iPod... because there is not enough free space on the iPod to hold your photos and albums."
For example, I was able to successfully sync my photo set such that I had 3.57GB in Audio, 726.2 KB for Photos, 48 MB for Other (what is "Other", btw?) and 143.4 MB of free space. However, I am not able to sync any photos when I have 3.68 GB in Audio, 47.9 MB in Other and 34.3 MB in free space.
What I don't understand is if the photos only take up 726.2 KB, iTunes should be able to sync them to the iPod when there's still 34.3 MB of free space left.

And then there were four...
This is rather frustrating. Not that I think it will do any good, but here's what I sent using iTunes' "Feedback" option since there is no way, that I have found, to directly ask the iTunes technicians a technical question:
There is no place to directly ask you (the iTunes technicians) for support about iTunes except in the forums. My question is already in the forums and already has three people with the same problem and no answer. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6240563&#6240563
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Not all photos sync to the ipod, it doesn't say why or what to do, they are *.jpg files. Some that do sync end up looking distorted with color bars and other odd artifacts, originals remain pristine. Sometimes when syncing photos, I get a blue screen of death.
I know you don't respond to these comments, but at least have someone post a fix on the forum there, or tell me to whom I can send comments for official help with specific and real issues instead of the very general user guides, "support documents" and "blind leading the blind" forums.

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however when I try to sync my older ipod with it and upload some new music to it, Itunes keeps telling me that all the previous songs will be erased
Yes, that's correct. If you don't have the songs that are currently on your iPod also in your new iTunes installation, they will be erased from the iPod if you sync it. Best to start afresh by first transferring all the music on your iPod back to your new computer/iTunes library.
For iTunes version 7 or later, then you can transfer purchased iTunes store music from the iPod to an authorized computer by using the "file/transfer purchases from iPod" menu. Note that the maximum of 5 authorized computers applies here.
Find out how to do that here.
How to copy iTunes purchases from an iPod or iPhone to a computer.
For all other non purchased content (your own CDs etc), check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it is a little more involved than other methods.
Much easier ways are to use one of the many 3rd party programs that copy music from the iPod to the computer.
One of the most recommended is Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
Other free programs are Pod Player, SharePod and Floola.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
iPodRip also has the feature enabling you to reconstruct playlists.
There is also CopyTrans. This does preserve ratings/playcounts etc if those are important to you but this program is not free. It also supports video transfer.
Once all the music is safely back in your new iTunes library, you can sync your iPod as normal.

Is anyone having trouble syncing photos ?

Some of my photos were messed up digitally, and had color blocks at the top or bottom, lighter areas in half the photo, the bottom half of the photo would be offset by a few pixels and just generally messed up. Some even looked color smeared (best way I can describe what I was seeing). After an exhaustive trial and error campaign, calling tech support once and taking the phone in to an Apple store, I finally have put my finger on the problem (I believe). I am running a Raid 1 setup with two identical drives. Each time I would sync photos to the iPhone I would have the problem. I had recently bought a USB/ATA external drive box and put one of my old harddrives in it that I wanted to recover some photos from. When I would transfer my pictures over to the single USB harddrive, and point iTunes to that location my photos would sync fine. I believe it is the Raid setup that is causing the problem. Raid must handle some files in such a way that Apple did not take in to consideration. I have called this in to tech support. I seem to be the only one with the problem so far.

Each time I would sync photos to the iPhone I
would have the problem. I had recently bought a
USB/ATA external drive box and put one of my old
harddrives in it that I wanted to recover some photos
from. When I would transfer my pictures over to the
single USB harddrive, and point iTunes to that
location my photos would sync fine. I believe it is
the Raid setup that is causing the problem.
What make and model of RAID controller are you using?
Is it an Intel Matrix Storage Manager, or something
else?
b noir,
This is a great post. I am an the IT administrator at my office. 1 of 7 employees were having trouble syncing photo's. All 7 employees are using a version of VIST OS.
I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, iTunes, Quick Time, Apple Mobile Device Support, and Apple Software Update several times. I deleted/edited registry, turned off all firwalls, etc. I still could not sync photo's. Seeing how this was a ne computer I asked the employee where the photo's were transferred from and she handed me a 60G WD Passport. I then proceeded to sync the photo's directly from the external drive to the iPhone, and.....every photo synced. I was hoping not have to contact apple support, so thanks.

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No problem. Glad to have helped. There was an issue with iTunes version 10.6 freezing while trying to sync an iPod Nano 6G.
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I believe you are looking at the process in the wrong way. Plugging your iPhone into iTunes will not trigger an "automatic loading" of pictures on your computer. Photos that are in the Camera Roll of your iPhone, ones that you have taken with the camera on the iPhone are "imported" to the computer. I'm not exactly sure how it works with a Mac and iPhoto, however you should be prompted to import the photos and they will be moved to the computer. With a Windows machine, they are defaulted to the Pictures folder.
You mention creating a folder on the computer and telling iTunes to sync the folder you created. However, if there are no pictures there, they will not get synced. Expecting the pictures to go to the newly created folder from the iPhone is not the correct assumption. This is not how it works.
The 3 folders that you speak of on the phone are correct. The camera roll just holds pictures taken with the iPhone, Photo libraray is the default location for photos synced from the computer, and the created folders are the ones that are synced from the computer. Think of the Photo library like you would a public library. It holds all of the photos that you have synced from the computer. The individual folders that you have created hold just the photos that you have put in those particular folders. There are not physically two copies of your photos, just that you can look at all photos from Photo Library, but just the ones in the particular folder if you select that folder.
Hope that helps your understanding.

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The problem I'm having is I'm trying to sync photos to my i phone device and "select specific folders" and although this is never been a problem in the past prior to downloading I-tunes 11, it's not allowing me to sync selected photos (only allowing me to select all folders) as the appropraite selection to "sync selected folders" is blocked out and will not allow me to manually switch to it.
I've tried changing settings etc and seeing if there's anything that can allow me to do this, but have had no luck.
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C0BRA wrote:
That's not really an answer, that's just a work around. Does anyone have an answer for this?
Put all the folders (or a shortcut to those folders) with photos into one folder and select that top level folder.
Then you can tick Selected folders and pick the subfolders.
The photos do not all need to be in one single folder.
Each folder will be a separate album in the Photos app.
See this -> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

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I have just downloaded pics from my digital camera, and I have having trouble syncing them with my iPod touch. They are all jpg files. I get an error saying:
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No problem. Glad to have helped. There was an issue with iTunes version 10.6 freezing while trying to sync an iPod Nano 6G.
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Ok. Well I have about 393 pictures on my ipod and for some reasons, almost all of them are not showing, except for about 10 new ones I added to the folder I have allowed to be synced onto my nano. Not only that, but those photos repeat themselves 3 times!! I have restarted my iPod two times, un-synced my photos and re-synced them again, and still nothing. I'm not sure if I restore the original settings would be the thing to do, but I don't want to wait for the whole iPod to sync every little thing again. Can someone please help me? I would really appreciate it!
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This is rather frustrating. Not that I think it will do any good, but here's what I sent using iTunes' "Feedback" option since there is no way, that I have found, to directly ask the iTunes technicians a technical question:
There is no place to directly ask you (the iTunes technicians) for support about iTunes except in the forums. My question is already in the forums and already has three people with the same problem and no answer. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6240563&#6240563
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iTunes version 7.6.1.9
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I know you don't respond to these comments, but at least have someone post a fix on the forum there, or tell me to whom I can send comments for official help with specific and real issues instead of the very general user guides, "support documents" and "blind leading the blind" forums.

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