Not enough free space? I've scoured the forum to no avail....

so my 30g 5th USED to fill up with a random selection of songs .... now when I plug it in to sync it it tells me "not enough free space ...." (my library is in excess of 250g's of music). I checked all the settings in iTunes and the best I can manage so far is to cut and paste a new playlist from the iTunes dj (gasp) to mix it up, any suggestions or am I missing something? Thanks in advance all ....

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