I always seem to have about 100-200 megs taken up by "Other", but I'm running out of space for music and now other is at 459.4 MB - valuable space that could be used for Music! What besides the OS is stored here, and how can one clean up?
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450 MB in "Other"? How to clear?
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Sure. So contacts, calendar, mail - that stuff can't possibly take up 100s of megs 🙂 Unless I have lots of old mail stored here, which I have no problem clearing off the device (though I have no idea how). What else makes up this space?
Are you jailbroken? Sometimes a lot of junk is left behind. Even if u have previously jailbroken. I'm pretty sure you have restore in DFU mode to clear useless files left over in "other".
Ivan P
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Album art is also included, IIRC, and iTunes automatically syncs two copies of the artwork for each track to the device - one in the full resolution for when you're on the Now Playing screen, and another as a thumbnail for when you're browsing your music... At least that's what people have posted on here before 😛