Cannot sync because it says other is filling up my entire phone

When I got to sync my iPhone 5s in Itunes 12, it shows that my phone is full of 26gb of "other". It doesn't split up the different categories such as audio and photos. I think this is what is causing this problem for me. Does anyone have a solution so that I can sync music to my phone. Thanks

What is "it" tha has not started?
Here:
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: How to restart the Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS) on Windows
Here:
Sync Session Failed to Start iTouch iOS5: Apple Support Communities

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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like we need to uninstall not just iTunes, but its associated softwares as well.
I recommend this article to help with accomplishing this task:
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If You Are Locked Out Or Have Forgotten Your Passcode or Just Need to Restore Your Device
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I cannot sync things from my itune's library to my ipod touch.It's says that I cannot sync because it hasn't started yet on my ipod, which is nonsense!Please help me!!!!

They first told me to restaure my ipod so that I could snc things from the library. I did it. My problem now is that I lost everything from my ipod and they says that I cannot sync my ipod because it hasn't started yet (nonsense).
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Here:
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Had to reinstall my operating system, so basically i got a new computer...reinstalled itunes and now my iphone 4 will not sync. it connects, then backs up then starts sync and says "cannot connect because there is not enough free space on the phone."

There is enough spacde on my phone. It is the exact same itunes library because i saved all my music before i reinstalled windows. So i just put all the music back onto itunes. It asked me if i wanted to erase and sync because it was a "new computer" and i said yes because it is all the same music so it should just re sync all the same stuff. But it wont do it. It just keeps saying there is not enough space on the phone, and my phone has 5 GB left on it.

Maybe iTunes is calculating it like this:
5 GB left, but if you sync your music (from the new PC) to it it will be full. It's maybe syncing the new content and then deleting the old music.
Try this: Deselect "Music-Syncing" and let him delete the music from your iPhone. (the other stuff, photos, cal, contacts should stay untoucht if you don't deselect it) After iTunes deleted the music from your iPhone (by letting the other stuff untouched) try to reselect "Music-Syncing" and iTunes will sync your music to your iPhone.

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I just plugged my iPod into my computer and it wiped out every single song and playlist that was on my iPod, but everything is still in iTunes. When I try to transfer all my songs, a window comes up that says "Songs on this iPod cannot be synced because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist". What does this mean? How can i fix it?
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Since your library is larger than will fit on your iPod, iTunes created a playlist which will fit.
You deleted this playlist so, "all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist".
Create a new playlist.
Select the iPod in iTunes.
Clik the Music tab.
Select this new playlist.

"Cannot sync because playlists do not exist" ???? Please help ???

Recently noticed that all of my playlists dissapeared from my 20gb 3G iPod.
I docked it to try and sync it up and gave me the message "Songs on the iPod could not be synced because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist".
Click ok. iPod undocks itself and is now completely empty. I redock it and gives the same message.
I did a reset on the iPod with no success so I did a complete restore. This allowed me to dock and resync to the iTunes library. So I add in a few more songs and try to sync and get the same message, undocked iPod, and completely deleted again. I even tried to delete my playlists from the iTunes library thinking that may be the propblem. Still getting this specific message despite there being nothing on the iPod and no playlists in iTunes.
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See this user tip.
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The iPod "*******" cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items in the iTunes library (additional 3.18 GB required)
My iPod is the basic 8 GB version with 6.8 GB capacity. I have cleard most of my photos off the iPod. I have 536 MB available.
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In itunes appears this message: the iphone cannot be synced because it cannot be found

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I recently updated the software on my iPhone 4 from version 4.0.1 to 4.0.2. While the phone was performing a sync prior to the update from versions the computer or phone froze. I restarted both the phone and computer. I then tried to update the phone versions and have been unable to get the phone to sync. It seems that the phone has been updated to version 4.0.2, but it will not sync at all. I keep getting the following message:
The iPhone "phone name" cannot be synced. The required file cannot be found.
The biggest issue I see is that the photos on my phone are not synced properly. Some albums are missing and so are some photos. Not only that but I notice that this message occurs during the last step of the sync process (step 5).
Please help! How do I fix this?

Try deleting the ipod photo cache, as described here:
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In trying to sync my old iPod to my new computer, it says that I cannot sync because it belongs to anther library. How do I find that old library for my new computer?

I have a new computer. It has been several years since I have downloaded any songs to my iPod. My old computer crashed so I could not get the info off of it. Now that I try to sync this iPod to my new computer, it states that it cannot because it belongs to another Library. How do I find that Library. I have resigned into iTunes, found my old account, and it still does not sync.
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Your iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time. It will recognize the iTunes library on the new PC as a new library. If you sync the iPod with this new library, all content will be erased from the iPod and replaced with what is in the new library. So what you will want to do is copy everything from the iPod to your new iTunes library on your PC first.
See this excellent user tip from another forum member turingtest2 outlining the different methods and software available to help you copy content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
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