iTunes 10 Auto Fill Free Space Results in "Over Capacity" Warning.

Hi Flibbertigibbet, i couldn't seem to find the auto-fill form in my itunes, halp!

It's near the very bottom of the iTunes window: right above the 'status bar'.

I have the same issue and have had for some time now, no matter what options I choose iTunes always tries to overfill my iPhone.

I'm starting to get a bit sick and tired of this issue, and others, that I'm having with Apple gear and iTunes eg. 2 x Apple TVs that randomly power them selves on and don't go back off after the set "go the sleep" period, Apple TVs occassionally say "can't play this content" on every item in the iTunes library and only a hard power reset will fix, I've even factory reset and gone through the whole setup routine again and the problems keep occurring on both units.

I have to say that I think Apples quality assurance has gone donw hill majorly in the last 12-18 months and its making me seriously consider going back to Windows and buying an Android phone.

Recently I've been having an issue whereby when I use the "autofill" option to fill my iPhone with music it will select far more music than it will hold, despite the fact that it has been told to reserve some free space for future applications/photos/data.

Fortunately I've found a solution to this which has worked for me:

1. Select your iPhone (or other iPod) from the devices section of the right hand panel in iTunes

2. Click on the "Summary" tab in the main window of iTunes

3. Ensure that the option to "Manually manage music and videos" is checked

4. Now go along each of the tabs at the top of the screen (Tones, Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, iTunes U, Books, and Photos - it seems that Apps doesn't need to be included here) and make sure that the "Sync xxxx" box is NOT ticked

You will now be able to use the autofill option by selecting the "Music" option under the device, choosing to Autofill From: either your entire music or a specific playlist and hitting the Autofill button. Do check the options under settings to make sure that is is set up the way you want it to be, for me I tick all 3 boxes (Replace all items when Autofilling, Choose items randomly and Choose higher rated items more often) and reserve just under 1GB of space for any future apps, videos or books that I might want to add in the future.

Using the above method has allowed me to use autofill and not have the situation where iTunes keeps trying to add more music that the device will hold.

Hopefully this will be of use to people who have experienced this same problem and have been stuck for a solution.

I couldn't agree more. I have been through my settings a number of times, and everything is correct, but still iTunes over-fills my phone. I sometimes go to take a picture or video but miss the moment because there's not enough free space.

I delete music manually, and then despite having the 'manually manage music' box ticked, iTunes will automatically put it all back the next time my phone is connected.

This and other issues like the completely broken 'Album Rating' make me think Apple's quality control and release testing is not what it once was.

Like MadKiwi0, because these issues have been around for a while now with no fix on the horizon, Ive been looking at an Android phone for my next device.