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Sep 2, 2011 5:19 AM in response to Csound1by evanfromringgold,thanks, i want tor free up some hardrive.
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Sep 2, 2011 5:24 AM in response to evanfromringgoldby Csound1,Then you need to know what you are deleting, download Omni disk sweeper or Grand Perspective and look, don't delete anything, move it to an external drive (that way if you move something important you can put it back) and remember to empty the trash or you will not recover any space at all
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Jan 30, 2012 5:16 PM in response to evanfromringgoldby Pondini,Other is just that; everything besides the categories listed.
OSX, it's work files, caches, logs, etc.
Everything in user accounts other than the categories listed, such as documents, spreadsheets, emails, contacts, etc.
See Lion's Storage Display for details.
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Jan 30, 2012 5:48 PM in response to Pondiniby Csound1,Pondini wrote:
Other is just that; everything besides the categories listed.
OSX, it's work files, caches, logs, etc.
Everything in user accounts other than the categories listed, such as documents, spreadsheets, emails, contacts, etc.
See Lion's Storage Display for details.
I don't see a category for documents:
Just Audio, Movies, Photos, Backups and Apps, I think that documents are included in 'other', although rereading your post suggests that is what you said
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Feb 9, 2012 7:20 PM in response to Csound1by takehome,the Omni Disk sweeper worked for me!
Thanks!
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Mar 23, 2012 4:28 PM in response to evanfromringgoldby J0llyR0gr,This may be a dead post but i just ran into the same issue i had roughly 7 gigs of "Other" and i freaked! Well digging around the web i found a solution that worked for me. I have an iPhone 4 16GB and i read that the "other" is sometimes SMS data so clearing out your SMS messages saved in your phone would clean some of that "Other" Data out. So thats what i did i erased all of my text/sms messages and unhooked, and the rehooked my iphone into the computer and pulled up itunes, I now have a mere 0.93GB of that yellow "other" filling my iphone. 0.93GB i can handle though i would like to know what it is im not nearly concerned about it as i was almost 7 something GB of unaccounted for data.
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1. Unplug iPhone
2.goto "Messages" app and delete all un-important SMS messages (all if possible)
3.Plug iPhone back into computer and run iTunes and your device should be all but clear of that insanely high amout of "other" data
NOTE: I do not have an iPod touch that has ever had this problem so for iPod useres im not sure if this will help you any, sorry
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Mar 29, 2012 5:23 PM in response to J0llyR0grby emh1960,I just tried deleting my text history, but it did not reduce the yellow!
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Mar 29, 2012 5:31 PM in response to emh1960by Pondini,What do you mean by "text history"?
How large was whatever you deleted?
See Lion's Storage Display for details of what's in "other", and, if you think there's too much stuff on your system that you don't recognize, click the Where did my Disk Space go? link.
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Mar 30, 2012 5:19 PM in response to Pondiniby emh1960,I deleted all the text conversations I have had with my phone since I got it 18 months ago. Probably about 40 different conversations.
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Mar 30, 2012 5:22 PM in response to emh1960by Pondini,How much data was that? I doubt it took up much space -- text files are normally quite small, likely not enough to make any noticeable difference.
Check out the links in my previous post.



