Unable to sync photos

Just got a new iPad and enjoying it very much, but I can't seem to get any photos on it. It syncs everything else and I have enough space on it, but the photos just won't come over. I get the following message from iTunes when I try it:
The ipad cannot be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.
I am the administrator of the computer so I'm not sure why I don't have privileges. Any thoughts?

It can be as simple as changing your user permissions to the iPhoto Library .... I had the same error and found several responses about having you delete your iPhoto cache, but to no avail I was still getting the error.
If you are like me having one iMac with multiple user accounts with a share Media folder for Music and Photos, the iPhoto Library you are trying to sync may not have the iPad user account in its permission list for the iPhoto library you want to copy (right click -> Get Info)... was it created by another account?
After reading a comment about the iPhoto library belonging to another user I check mine and it was missing the user account I was trying to sync the iPad with, once I added that user it sync without error.

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