iOS5 update causes over capacity problem?

I am new to this kind of thing, my 3GS did the same, 2 gig free to 4 gig over capacity after new ios5 update.

I just did the re sync again and it worked, but it only happened right at the end when I thought it had failed.

Hope this helps

What worked for me....I unchecked "Automatically fill free space with songs" in the music tab.

I had the capacity issue on my 3GS after upgrading to IOS5. I simply went into the "Movies" tab and removed the movies from my iPhone. This resolved the problem without doing another restore.

I'm having this issue among others. I'm trying to figure out what this 7.2 GB of other is that I didn't have before. As well as my music will not play. HELP !

From what I have been reading so far and based on my own personal

experience... Clicking on/off a tab or an item(s) or a playlist, ANYTHING

that will cause iTunes/iPhone to recalculate the disk usage will most

probably fix the issue. I think majority of the people who had issues,

re-syncing fixes the over capacity issue.

Another issue I had, minor one, majority of my personal ringtones did NOT

get copied over. I hand to uncheck all the ringtones, sync, check all the

ringtones, re-sync and it all got copied over.

Best of luck to all.

Had the same thing. After reading some posts about it, I went in and UNchecked sync music and that gave me enough room. Did a sync (with no music) and the "Other" memory went back to its previous size and now I am able to resync WITH music checked. Scary. Could have done without that happening today.

I'm confused. I had the huge "other" issue (from a spare 5 GB's to 7 GB's overflow), but it seem to have been fixed for now following the suggestions here about resyncihng ( thanks!) - however I've tried every tip in the book to get some missing images back, that has been following this issue.

I.e. I have a few albums (around 3 GB worth from iPhoto) that I won't sync at all. The photo's (around 800) the iPhone have taken is all there, but not the albums I've made in iPhoto.

I see them albums in iTunes as they come from iPhoto and they are checked in iTunes to sync. But they won't sync to my iPhone 4 (32 GB) though, either I toggle the sync box on or off, resync with or without music etc.

GAAH!

OK, I found the solution to *my* problem with the images... now everything is fine and dandy thanks to you in this thread and a little help from Google: http://leimobile.com/faq-how-to-fix-ios-5-photo-sync-issues/

Phew!!! Just took me 4 hours to find a soluton to all the issues.

What I did was to go >settings >general >reset >erase all contents and settings and now my "other" is only .035 Gig from 9.35 Gig a while ago... I tried the restore remedy a couple of times but to no avail.. But this one was effective. 🙂

Definately a calculation bug. I've had the same with my 64GB 3G iPod Touch. Has 3GB free after update to ios5. After sync had some overage and deleted some photos. Doing some check-unchecking and finally got all my photos synced back. I found that iTunes indicates I have 1.16GB free, but while connected to iTunes my Touch says I have 3GB free.

Hopefully Apple will correct this bug along with the cover artwork bug.

Peace,

Chris

I've just been experiencing this in iTunes 10 with my iPhone 4 16GB

It says i have 8GB of Video, when i have about 3.4GB

It seems to have coincided with iOS5 loosing most of my ringtones, which i solved with deselecting them, syncing, reselecting them and syncing again

the only fix i've found for the over capacity issue is to deselect sync music/films/video (pick one) then reselect it and sync this causes it to recalculate the capacity

its an annoying bug to say the least

Mine didn't work checking or unchecking options in the iTunes. It didn't even sync the iPhone. The only way to make it work again, with others coming from 6,8 Gb to 2,3Gb was:

1) Go to settings >general >reset >erase all contents.

2) Restore from a backup before the update to iOS5 when I was asked to configure the iPhone in the iTunes.

I still don't know if 2,3 Gb of Others make sense.

I had pretty much an identical pissue. I unchecked "sync all music" and it automatically synced reducing the 'other' from 10GB to 0.48.

It wouldn't resync as it said over capacity

Reselecting the sync music made it slightly over capacity - it seems that it was trying to add all 3000 songs on my mac and not the ones i had checked. Can't see that option anymore - instead, I selected to sync all genres - which does seem to take into account what I have selected in iTunes.

Syncing now, showing there's going to be 3.5GB free.

I hope that speeds the phone up again as it appeared to slow down after upgrading to iOS5

I didn't try restoring from backup as I didn't need to

Good luck

me too. 45Gb over capacity when i had 8gb left on a 60gb machine.

I closed itunes, unplugged ipod4 and tried to resync. Same as.

Unplugged, closed itunes, shut down all my apps running in the background on ipod, plugged it back in, itunes reopens, back to 45Gb! sa-weet!

Quick and easy solution for those who were brought here by google:

If you haven't turned off your device in a while, turn it off and turn it back on. Everything should be back to normal.

I must say this thread was equally useful to me as it was a waste of time. Half the posts begin with "oh ya, I have that problem too" and usually don't end with any useful input or just repeat what's been suggested. Either way, thanks to those who actually made suggestions I managed to figure out a solution that worked. Hope it works for you guys too.