Help, iPad's "other" space taking so much space!!!!!

A combination of HiroPro and Rjordan4 posts worked for me. I bought this new iPad 3 and was surprised to see "OTHERS" take up almost 4 GB (when there was practically nothing much on my iPad). I have a 32 GB WiFi model and was wondering what the other files was all about. Being a software engineer, I understand that the temp or cache is required to run apps. Hoever 4 GB was not acceptable. Since I use iPhone 4, 64 GB to store all my music etc, I did not synch a whole load of stuff on my iPad. I did however synch Photos (wanted to check the Retina display work on some of my HD picutres) and when I did an uncheck "Synch Photos from" in iTunes and Synch and re-synch after checking "Synch Photos from" in iTunes it worked for me... marginally 🙂 Now my "OTHERS" is 1.01 GB. I have decided to live with it as I have been reading all the posts and opening all other links etc and I am dead tired. I will see if the size increases over a period of time (with new apps installed, videos, TV shows etc) and do a regular maintainance job to find the real culprit. If this becomes too much, I will raise a ticket with Apple - though they are not going to be of much use. I might as well catch an Apple nerd (preferbaly a college drop out) and check with him/her for a solution. Will post back if I get something substantial.

A few more things:

- Do all the above when you have loads of time on hand

- Try to physically connect your iPod/iPhone/iPad when you do the procedure

- It's definetly related to the new apps available for iPad. My iPhone has music (crazy **** load of it), pictures, apps, podcasts et al but the "OTHERS" data is only 0.78 GB vs a clean new iPad (with a few more HD apps) showing 1.01 GB

- Please read all the posts (or as many) as everyone's problem is unique and anything that's written in this forum might work for you

I have found that if for some reason you interrupt the sync process, then the other increases.

Apple has a solution here I have just found that link I will have to try it myself too.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Had the same problem as everyone and using iexplore I was able to find my culprit. Apps Modern Warfare and Gangstar Rio had zip files that totaled 3.7 GB. Once cleared my Other size dropped from 4.7 GB to 1 GB. Location for the zipped files was /ipadname/media/ApplicationArchives.

Hope this helps!

GTaylor1thanks for discovering the solution. "Other" dropped from 2.6 Gb to 0.58 Gb after deleting the archives from folder.

When is Apple going to come up with a real solution to this problem? I tried every trick posted on this bulletin board and nothing worked when my iPhone other category went to 8 GB. I restored my phone as a new device and it went away. Now three months later for no reason at all the other category went from 1 GB to 4 GB. If I have to restore my phone every three months the Samsung Galaxy is looking better all the time.

I saw what you said about games keeping archives that fill up the other section and I think this might be what is causing my problem, but I'm not sure how to find or delete these archives. I saw where the files are located just not sure how to get there on my iPad. Also if this makes a difference my iPad is not jailbroken and I have tried restoring but the problem came back after like 2 syncs. My iPad is at 0 bytes of free space right now. Help would be appreciated.

Try to use "iExplorer". I had full acces to the folder specified by GTaylor1. Maybe you can use it on an iPad which is not jailbroken.

Is this program on a computer or on the iPad itself?

You have to install the program on computer and connect the iPad after install. Do a google search for iExplorer and will find windows and mac versions.

Never mind i have the program and I found the folder and I just want to make sure that deleting these files is safe.

I deleted the files and that mostly fixed my problem thanks for the help.

Worked for me. Turn off. Get out of iTunes. Reconnect. Open iTunes. Tell it to sync. let the PC wake up the ipad.

Sorry for the delayed response Pattyboyfisher. I can't say for certain what it affects but myself my games were not affected. I wouldn't sweat too much on what it would affect, you can always restore if you have any issues.

Glad to hear you were able to clear your space!

Did the job for me. Reduced from 5.8gigs to 1.48gigs