Manually Sync problem

Hi All
I have an ipad which I sync with iTunes manually via USB on a windows 7 pc.  I have sync'd many times but am suddenly being told there is not enough room.  I have reduced the number of playlists and photos that I am trying to sync and the bar at the bottom of the manual sync page indcates at least 13gb free.  However when I have selected a couple of playlists it still says not enough.  My nagging thought is that recently I went through and added all the album artwork I could for each album in my itunes library, does this now mean that itunes is trying to put all the album artwork on to the ipad, is this perhaps why I seeing the message "not enough space".  But that still doesn't explain why the storage bar reads half full (blue) for audio, a small fraction for other (yellow) and the rest grey for free space.
Any help or advice is most welcome.

Hello there, Anniemaca.
The following Knowledge Base article offers a few pointers for what seems to be the issue you're describing:
iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
Try disconnecting and reconnecting your device, then syncing again to solve this issue.
Orphaned files may remain on your iOS device if it is physically disconnected while syncing music, podcasts, videos, or photos. This can prevent iTunes from syncing the iOS device on subsequent sync sessions. When this happens, the Capacity indicator in iTunes may report a large amount of "Other" disk usage for the iOS device. To resolve this issue:
Turn off the music or photo sync option in iTunes for the device.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Turn the music and photo sync options for the device on again.
Click Apply again to try to sync the device to iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 5.
Turn off the automatic syncing functions for the iOS device. To do this:
Select the iOS device from the iTunes window and click the Summary tab.
Deselect "Automatically sync when this device is connected" and select the "Sync only checked songs and videos" checkbox.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Reduce the amount of data that is being synced to the device and resync the device. For example, if syncing your Music library exceeds the memory capacity of the device, choose "Selected playlists" to transfer rather than "All songs and playlists" under the Music tab in iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 6.
Restore using iTunes.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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