Q: what does the 'Other' summary mean in iTunes
whenever i sync my ipad to iTunes i always see the yellow bar that represent 'other' taking up quite a lot of space, so i'm wonder what does it mean.
i have a lot of ebooks/files in the ipad is it because of this that i have about 1+GB of other space being taken up. i'm afraid that if i continue to add more ebooks/files into my ipad that it is going to eat up all of the space i currently have available.
p.s. if i helps i'm using dropbox, adobe reader, and other various book/managing app to sort and organize my ebooks/files.
p.p.s. is there a way for me to clear out some of the files that is being store in 'other' if it's not important?
thank for the help in advance.
Message was edited by: Linnt
iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
Posted on May 15, 2012 3:18 PM
"Other" is app data and settings (including your ebooks in app date), Safari History and bookmarks, Notes, Calendar entries, the camera roll, text and email messages and any photos associated with contacts, - items that do not fall into the media category - apps, music, books, TV Shows, Movies, podcasts and so on.
I have read that "other" should be around 250 - 750 MB in size. Of course, the more files that you have on the device, the larger"other" will be.
If you see 4GB or 5GB of "other" that is probably indicative of a corrupt sync or bad files on the iPad. Sometimes syncing again will clear it up, removing and then resyncing photos might help as well. Sometimes the only thing that works is to restore the iPad.
You can actually see what apps are accounting for the storage on the device. Go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage - tap on the app and you can see how much document and data storage each app is taking up in the documents and data setting.
I have about 1.3 GB of "other" and that may be a bit too much, but my iPad is running great and I'm not about to restore it unless I run into a problem.
Message was edited by: Demo
Posted on May 15, 2012 3:32 PM