Why is "fill free space" no longer leaving space for more photos or deleting music when I want to add other things

My iPhone 4 with iOS 5 update doesn't seem to sync as smoothly as before. Before it used to allow some space for more photos. Or if I added a photo album toit would delete some of the "free space" music to make room for what I was adding. Now it just seems to cram almost all the space and just leave the music there not chaning anything with each sync.

Try restoring your iPod. Restoring will erase the hard drive, reload the software and put it back to default settings, so if you have songs on your iPod that aren't on iTunes you will lose them if you have no back up. Once the restore is complete follow the on screen instructions and it should connect to iTunes and give you a prompt to automatically update your library onto the fresh installation. Choose no and it will default to manual mode and from there you can choose the selected playlist option: Restoring iPod to factory settings with iTunes 7

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12209799&#12209799
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AC Adam wrote:
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When iTunes automatically fills free space with songs, where are these songs listed?
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When iTunes automatically fills free space with songs, where are these songs listed?
Under Songs, Artsts, Albums, etc.
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I am very nearly at my limit, so been deleting a few playlists but as I was doing that, it seemed to be filling back up again just as quick.
That menas that it is working exactly as it should.
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