After a restore still not enough free space to download itunes library

After several problems syncing my ipod/itunes (I had not used either in a long time), I downloaded the new version of itunes and still had problems. Then I restored my ipod through this new version of itunes and now it says I do not have enough free space to update my ipod and this bar located at the summary tab says I have 4gb available, which doesn't make sense to me since I thought I had 60gb (I really don't understand this stuff). Yet when I turn on my ipod there is absolutely nothing on it (since I restored it). I'm so confused...help!

Which iPod do you have?
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Lots more and very specific info is necessary for troubleshooting. Probably your hard drives is too full.
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I'm guessing this is an extrenal drive, correct? If so make sure the library you're importimng into is really located on the external drive. By default Aperture creates its library in your home pictures folder.

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HOW DO I FIX THIS >:(

See Here > 'Not enough free space' alert when trying to sync
From Here > http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/syncing/

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I have over 250 GB free space yet aperture still tells me i nedd more than 4 BG when importing my pictures (2 gb ) from iphoto library to apertura library ???
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And how much free space is on your system drive?
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Then your options are:
create plenty of free space on the system drive
or find out why the extrenal cannot be accessed by Aperture
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it is a network volume (that is not recommended for Aperture)
or the formatting is wrong. You need MacOS X extended formatting:
If necessary, reformat your external volume using disk utility and repair the permissions on the volume.
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Thanks!

Is the drive your are attempting to use internal or external. If external is it formatted OS Extended? Aperture requires that the library be on a probably formatted drive.
If thats not the cause post back your hardware setup, type of drive, etc.
regards

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The complete iTunes library was already on my iPhone 4. Why would it all not go back on? It left out around 4 or 5 songs from my play list. How do I get them back on my iPhone?
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I researched how to get more free space on my phone which might 'supposedly' alleviate the above issues. I removed some less used apps, and some photos and videos from my phone. Then, I tried backing up again. I still got the message there wasn't enough free space on my phone, and the missing songs from the iTunes library were not returned to my phone. I gave another try at syncing my iPhone. I still got the same message that the phone couldn't be synced because there wasn't enough free space in the iTunes library.
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I Have fumbled all day to this resolved, I'll run the battery down and see what happens afterwards. This is not good !

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Ok after 4 hours of messing with this, I NEED help.
I tried to put some music into iTunes library and I went to "Update songs" and I get an error saying there is not enough free space in the iTunes library.... So I'm stuck with an Ipod nano that I can't add any songs to. I need help ASAP
There is also a lock at the bottom beside free space, does that matter at all?

It tells you what's wrong!
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As for pictures. When your iPod is connected to your iTunes Library, look on the Device/Photos pane and check which folder is being used by iTunes to put pictures onto the iPod. Then in Windows Explorer, have a look at that folder. Have you added a lot more pictures to it, say from your camera? Or does the folder have a lot of sub-folders in it that have recently been added?
The main Sync (parent) folder appears on the iPod as Photo Library and the Sub-folders (child) appear on the iPod as named folders listed below the Photo Library. So on the iPod, the parent folder has every single picture in it that is in both the parent and child folders.

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2) Deleted my iphoto library from internal SSD
3) iMovie cannot locate any of my movie files anymore therefore;
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2) Educate me on how to restore large files back to my internal SSD
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Brilliant.
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Well obviously you don't have enough space to import an iPhoto Library that is more than 10 gigs.
But that's not importat right now.
You have the makings of a major problem and you need to address it now.
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
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I updated my iphone 4 to v7 via itunes (v12), and in doing so, my camera roll was erased as were most of my calendar events. I am trying to restore the backup that I created just before updating, but I get an error message in itunes that says "itunes could not restore the iphone" because "not enough free space". There is 2.5gb free on my iphone, and I created the backup just before updating so there should be plenty of room. Does anyone know how to get the iphone to restore and/or how to put my pics & calendar back? itunes hangs up at the end while syncing too...

hello again, don't post twice the same question, it won't be answered faster.
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Sounds like you just need to clear some stuff off of your computer.
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Check everywhere, i recently found 2gb of video clips that i thought i had deleted.
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Dear Jody..jone5
Good for you that can't update your iphone because I did it and my iphone dosen't work for example I can't download any app like Wecaht or Twitter..
Goodluck
Atousa

ITunes could not restore iPhone (from backup) because not enough free space on *iPhone*?!

Hey everyone,
I recently upgraded to iOS 6 and before I upgraded, I made sure to make a backup because I know upgrading to the new OS can often cause people to lose their things. After upgrading to iOS 6, I found I had everything except for all my messages and some of my contacts (it appears all contacts I added within the past 6-7 months or so are gone, but the older ones are there). I need my messages and those newer contacts, so I want to restore from the backup I made before upgrading to iOS 6, but unfortunately, I get an error message saying iTunes could not restore from backup because there is not enough free space on my iPhone. Note, not my computer or my hard disk, my iPhone. First of all I don't see why I would need free space on my iPhone to restore it, and secondly, I have about 5GBs of free space on it. What can I do?

Yes. Those are the only ones saved by iTunes, as the working assumption is that all the other photos are on your computer and thus can be synced from that source, without the backup duplicating them and taking long time and lots of space. Photos on the camera roll are assumed to be not yet Transferred.
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Not sure if you tried this multiple times, but it might worth doing. Just remember to cancell the Sync as soon after connecting so you don't overwrite the backup.
1. Check if you still have an older backup that might have the pictures. Follow the instruction by user Linda Custer in this discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/message/13011509#13011509
2. Check the links in the More Like This box on the right, or do a search for your issue on these forums or on Google.
3. Find third party utilities that treat the iPhone as an external USB disk and therefore allow for extracting photo files directly from the device, bypassing iTunes. Search here, Google or check MacUpdate: http://www.macupdate.com/
And perhaps the most obvious, that I forgot to ask about:
4. If you switched iCloud on, and selected backup to iCloud you should have a backup outside of your computer; just select the iCloud backup, instead of the local one, for Restore.
5. If you switched iCloud on and checked PhotoStream on, you should have the camera roll photos in the cloud and can retrieve them from the cloud via the Web site, your Photo app, etc.
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