Memory issues...what is the "Other" that is taking up so much space?

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Memory issues...what is the "Other" that is taking up so much space?

I have a 4 Gig IPhone...and have 303mb of music, 1.3 gigs of video, 25.2 mb of photos, and then there is the 1.61 GB of "Other" ???...what is taking up all this space ? any idea...or anyone else notice that goin on with there Iphone ???...Large amounts of space being taken up by "Other" ???

IMac G5, 17 Inch, rev B & MacBook 2GHz, 2 gb, white, Iphone 4GB Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on Jul 1, 2007 3:46 PM

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JWeinberg

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Jul 1, 2007 3:53 PM in response to DJ Gary B. in Atlanta,GA

This is just a guess, but since OS X is the operating system the phone uses, I would imagine that the space is being used by the OS. I wonder if there is also a form of journaling turned on too.

Jeff

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CEOself

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Jul 1, 2007 4:06 PM in response to DJ Gary B. in Atlanta,GA

Just a guess here.

I set iCal to not sync 30 days and older, I synced about 100 contacts, and very few Bookmarks. That's about all the data I synced. My other is 20.1mb. I think "other" is probably the "Info" and "Photos" tabs in iTunes.

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Jul 1, 2007 4:21 PM in response to DJ Gary B. in Atlanta,GA

The "Other" is OS X. Apple was a little less than candid in informing people that the iPhone's operating system shares the available memory. Definitely a reason to spend the extra $100 for the 8GB version.

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Jul 29, 2007 9:28 AM in response to DJ Gary B. in Atlanta,GA

After many synchs and seeing that the "Other" section of memory staying the same or growing and taking up nearly half of all my memory I called Apple tech support to find out what was taking up so much memory....they told me that this was not right, and that I should not have that much "Other" memory being takin up...and the only way to fix the problem was to do a restore of my iphone...so I did a restore and sure enough it fixed the problem...now I have almost No memory being taken up at all by "Other" and lots of free space now

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Jul 29, 2007 9:29 AM in response to DJ Gary B. in Atlanta,GA

After many synchs and seeing that the "Other" section of memory staying the same or growing and taking up nearly half of all my memory I called Apple tech support to find out what was taking up so much memory....they told me that this was not right, and that I should not have that much "Other" memory being takin up...and the only way to fix the problem was to do a restore of my iphone...so I did a restore and sure enough it fixed the problem...now I have almost No memory being taken up at all by "Other" and lots of free space now

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Jul 29, 2007 9:57 AM in response to DJ Gary B. in Atlanta,GA

I had the exact same issue. I scoured the forums and the manuals. I had 404 meg of other. After i removed all my mp3's it went to 420. Wierd

So i did a restore. Then I had 14.4.

I opened Google maps and it went to 15.5.

Yesterday I did some mapping with google as well. again the size went up.

My theory is that Google maps caches the maps you use.

However there is no way to clear the google cache.

I also cleared safari cache and that had no affect.

Since then I have been monitoring the other usage. It is still on a steady upward pace. I hope I dont have to reload to reclaim space again.

Maybe this is something they will fix.

Tom

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