TS1306 "iPod cannot be synced. Required file could not be found." Help!

With a recent update to Itunes I am continuing to recive this error notice; "iPod cannot be synced. Required file could not be found.".
After trying everything and I mean everything, it still will not sync.
Any help would be appreciatted.

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