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Luckily my iPad is 64gb so I don't have to worry too much about managing my space, I still have about 16gb free so it's all good. But you know in iTunes, when you click on 'iPad' or whatever other thing you have plugged in, it shows the remaining capacity and what it's being used for. Like music, movies, apps, photos, books, and of course "other". Well, my "other" category is now taking up a whopping 3.6gb of space! I know for a fact that it didn't take up nearly that much space, and it's been growing over time. So I was wondering what it is that takes up space in the "other" category and how you can empty it out to open up space and tidy up a little bit. |
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The "other" portion would be the operating system itself, along with data and preference files. The OS is not "Firmware" as some people like to call or believe it to be, it's saved on the same memory / storage modules as other assets. The OS itself, normally only takes up about 400-600MB, the rest are preference files, data files, other little assets that an application may save to disk, and virtual memory and pipes saved to disk... there's also cache files which have been known to take up as much as 1 gig of storage combined. |
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The OS is what fills it up, Usually archived data so things load faster. |
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For Me it's pretty much completely down to the YouTube App. Every time I watch a video the "yellow peril" strikes... |
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Jailbreak data, if your iPod is jailbroken, and the OS information, notes, contacts all of those things go on other. |
Duplicate: http://lockergnome.net/questions/42239/other-space-on-my-ipod-touch
Not even! He asked mainly what took it up, i was looking more for how to clean it up..