IPhone can't delete photos

When syncing my iPhone, I keep getting "an unknown error (-39)" when the iPhone begins to delete photos to make room for more podcasts, for example. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Glad you were able to fix it! I have run into a couple of "oddities", and usually doing what you did cleared them up. I was syncing photos, and they appreared in the wrong folders. This happened after I synced first, then added photos to the PC folders, and resync to add the new photos. I unchecked everything, deleted all the photos, rechecked and resynced, and all was well. It seem the iPhone got a little "confused".

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