Trying to understand Watch-4 storage. Look at the image below. There is 7.3G available and 5.4G used. 7.3 + 5.4 = 12.7 The Watch has 16G total storage. I'm concluding that 3.3G is use by the OS. Correct?
Now, look at the details show in the right-hand column. Obviously my music is the largest consumer of storage but adding up the figures doesn't even come close to the 5.4G total being used. What am I missing here? For the record, everything below Voicemail is zero.
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Remember that storage is allocated in fixed chunks, so (in an extreme example) if the allocation unit is 1 megabyte then a 1000 byte file might be calculated as 1000 bytes for usage, but it will tie up a whole megabyte of space. Multiply that by a few hundred files and you can soon be into a gigabyte of difference.
The operating system uses up the rest.
I have 9.1 GB Available and 3.4 GB used for a total of 12.5 GB. I don't show any one application using more than 869 MB, but I have at least 47 applications. I didn't take the time to add them all up. You say that everything below Voicemail is zero. On my watch App Voicemail is the last listing. I have never been able to make an exact accounting of my storage on either of my devices.
Naah. Look at my math. The figures don't add up at all.
I know but I would expect that to cause the opposite of what I'm seeing. Fortunately, this is not an important issue. It was more intellectual curiosity.
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