Not enough room on your new 32GB 3GS?
With 32GB being rolled out on the iPhone I thought I’d write up a little gotcha that has a very simple solution.
For some time now I’ve been without my 60GB iPod. Since it was stolen I never replaced it and I’d got by with a selection of playlists on my 16GB 3G iPhone. Now with a 32GB 3GS getting all my music on there was tantalisingly in range.
I reconfigured my sync settings in iTunes and took a glance at what I needed space wise for the few videos, apps and photos that were already on there. In music I selected to sync my full library and started a sync. I was disappointed that I was told that I still hadn’t enough room. I was sure that I hadn’t got my mental calculation wrong on space requirements and I could see that I only needed to find around 22GB as shown in iTunes at the bottom of my music library. Still I went about making sure and told iTunes to only sync checked songs and videos. I then unchecked all the rubbish that had accumulated in my library over the years that I really didn’t need but had never bothered my in the past with 60GB of room.
Still not enough room.
I reprocessed some Apple Loss-less files down to iTunes Plus and with that I just managed to get the sync going. It was then I found the culprit. As the sync started and I saw what was being transferred I saw a whole raft of audio and video podcasts being transfereed. I have my podcasts set to sync the latest 5 new podcasts and I could see that these were old ones being transferred. Checking my settings I then noticed that I had a number of smart playlists that were picking up on podcasts and now I was syncing all music and playlists it was causing the unwanted podcasts to be transferred.
The solution was easy. Either delete the smart playlist or edit it and add “Podcast” is “Not True”.
This tip applies to iPod Touch also but I know that a number of new 32GB iPhone users will be going through exactly what I did.
