Hardware Reference
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If none of the options just mentioned sounds just right (pun intended), you may prefer using the On
This iPad tab, which is covered in some detail later in this chapter.
If you choose Entire Music Library and have more songs in your iTunes Library than
storage space on your iPad, you'll see an error message when you try to sync. You'll also see
a yellow alert on the right side of the Capacity chart at the bottom of the screen, along with
how much over your iPad's capacity adding the entire music library would make you. To
avoid such errors, select playlists, artists, and genres that total less than the free space on your
iPad, which is also displayed in the Capacity chart at the bottom of the iTunes screen.
Music, podcasts, and video are notorious for using massive amounts of storage space
on your iPad. If you try to sync too much media content, you see lots of error messages.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Finally, if you select the Automatically Fill Free Space with Songs check box, iTunes fills any free
space on your iPad with music. Think long and hard about enabling this option. We recommend
against it because when it's enabled, you can easily run out of space for pictures and videos you
shoot or documents you save (to name just a few of the possible consequences of filling your iPad
with songs).
How much space did I use?
If you're interested in knowing how much free space is available on your iPad, look near the bottom of
the iTunes window while your iPad is connected. You'll see a chart that shows the contents of your
iPad, color-coded for your convenience. As you can see in the figure, this iPad has 49.66GB of free
space. Hover your cursor over any color to see a bubble with info on that category, as shown for Pho-
tos in the figure.
You can find similar information about space used and space remaining on your iPad by tapping Set-
tings⇒General⇒Usage. The iPad's display isn't as pretty as the one pictured here, but it is useful when
you need that info and you're not near your computer.
