I tried connecting our iPad to the PC and making sure it didn't go to sleep but it still won't work. The error I am getting now is always “Unable to synchronize replica. Sync replica internal error – {96BC51AA-3887-425F-A601-F245D9C9B67C}” (that last string of letters/numbers varies sometimes).
Elizabeth, when you upgraded to IOS 8, you didn't lose any of the unsynced features?
Pam thank you for posting that workaround. I will give that a try next..