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User profile for user: RadioactiveGazz
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4th gen iPod Touch 8GB has 6.5GB storage Capacity...

8GB is not very much to begin with, and it does not help that it's capacity is actually only 6.4GB, with 0.8GB of "Other" files on my device, leaving me with 5.6 to play with. I know that firmware space is needed and whatnot, but it's almost 2.5GB, and my last iPod touch, also an 8GB model, had a capacity of 7.4 and had only 0.3GB of "Other" files. why has the space the firmware and other stuff almost doubled with the 4th gen?

Any ideas? Will restoring it magically increase the capacity?

Macbook Pro 13" 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jan 1, 2011 8:01 PM

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User profile for user: RadioactiveGazz
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Jan 5, 2011 5:15 AM in response to Andy :]

I know about this, but as I said, I can only use 5.5gb of my 8gb system, I have never seen anything quite on that scale. any other device of that size (including an older gen ipod touch 8gb) has had at least 7.1gb free. however, the capacity is 1.5 gb lower than listed, and then there are other 800mb of other files I would assume is the OS. But if that is the OS, what is that 1.5gb for, and why is so much space needed for the OS. Never took up that much on my older device. I doubt the new features of the new gen ipod touch have really required almost an extra 2gb of space on top of the OS of the old ipod.

Do you get my point? Sure, 7.3gb of the 8gb listed is understandable, but 6.5 with a further 800mb of space used up on "other" files. I can't help but feel like something is wrong here.
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User profile for user: celliott147
celliott147
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Jan 8, 2011 2:49 PM in response to RadioactiveGazz

Here's why: computers read bytes in groups of 1024 while humans group them into sets of 1000.

Thus this is the case:
Humans see this:
8GB = 8,000MB
8,000MB = 8,000,000KB
8,000,000KB = 8,000,000,000 bytes

Computers take those same bytes like this:
8,000,000,000 bytes = 7,812,500KB
7,812,500KB = 7,629.39MB
7,629.39MB = 7.45GB

The OS weighs in at around .70GB putting the final available at around 6.75GB or very close to what you have...
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User profile for user: robot1806
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Mar 6, 2011 10:50 PM in response to RadioactiveGazz

idk why the OS is 1.5 gb its really annoying i know but your 0.7gb of other i may have some help on.. on my old ipod touch i copied a movie on to it (1.2gb) and it was going good till about half way through my computer crashed, when i booted back up it showed on my ipod 1.2gb of other, and the video wasnt shown in the list. so from that ive always been suspicious of "other" data as being corrupt. unfortunatly there wasnt an easy way to fix it without restoring. so yeh i hope that helps
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