After trying to delete all music from my iPhone by syncing to iTunes with music unchecked, all of the space formerly occupied by the music is now classified as "other" and is inaccessible. How do I fix this?

Question

Every time I sync my iPhone to iTunes, it messes up my music and I spend 6 hours trying to fix my library and getting my playlists back and getting my songs accessible on both the iPhone and iTunes once again. This is a bit ridiculous. I thought a simple solution would be to just remove all of the music from the phone and then sync back the playlists I wanted. To remove the songs, I went to my iPhone from iTunes, went to the music tab, and unselected to box to sync music. I synced the phone, which should have removed all of the music - which it did, it is no longer on my phone, but when I try to sync the music back onto the phone, iTunes tells me that there is not enough storage space. When I look at the little storage bar in iTunes, the 8GB of space that used to be labelled as "music" is now labelled"other." so I have no songs on my iPhone, and I can't put them back because it thinks the space is still occupied - and it shouldn't be. How do I reclaim the space without doing a hard reset without restoring a backup? That seems to be the default solution to all problems with Apple products, but is really not an acceptable solution - there has to be a better way.

Answer 1

Why?  That's the *best* way.  Have you actually tried it, and determined that the corruption is in the backup file?