iPhone 5 Portable Genius

Synchronizing Your iPhone Manually

One fine day, you’ll be minding your own business and performing what you believe to be a routine sync operation when a dialog like the one shown in Figure 7.3 will rear its nasty head.

7.3 You see this dialog if iTunes can’t fit all your stuff on your iPhone.

Groan! This most unwelcome dialog means just what it says: there’s not enough free space on your iPhone to sync all the content from your computer. You’ve got a couple of ways you can handle this:

Remove some of the content from your computer. This is a good way to go if your iPhone is really close to having enough space. For example, the dialog may say that your computer wants to send 100MB of data, but your iPhone has only 98MB of free space. In this case, you can get rid of a few megabytes of stuff on your computer, and you’re back in the sync business.

Synchronize your iPhone manually. This means that you no longer sync everything on your computer. Instead, you handpick which playlists, podcasts, audiobooks, and so on are sent to your iPhone. It’s a bit more work, but it’s the way to go if there’s a big difference between the amount of content on your computer and the amount of space ...