What's Stored in "other" memory

Jamesn71 · Jul 5, 2008, 04:18 PM

My daughters ipod has 420 meg used up in "other" memory while mine (with the same music pics and video only has about 80 megs. Does anybody know how I can see the contents of the "Other" memory section?

Thanks for any help.

sgtboy · Jul 5, 2008, 04:56 PM

very likely temporary internet files from safari, go to safari options on your touch and delete history/temporary file (or whatever its called) and see what happens. Also a restore via itunes is another option if your desperate to clear it. Have you JB'ed it at all?

UnknownVariable · 11:57 AM

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sgtboy · Jul 5, 2008, 09:18 PM

a large chunk of that is likely the OS on the Ipod touch

ipodtoucher · Jul 5, 2008, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sgtboy

a large chunk of that is likely the OS on the Ipod touch

No thats taken away from the whole total. Like I bought a 16GB touch and when I got it there was 14.8GB left. The rest was for the OS...

Shotgun OS · Jul 5, 2008, 11:40 PM

I think most of it is album artwork.

David G. · Jul 6, 2008, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ipodtoucher

No thats taken away from the whole total. Like I bought a 16GB touch and when I got it there was 14.8GB left. The rest was for the OS...

Don't forget 1000/1024 formatting.

Ivan P · Jul 6, 2008, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ipodtoucher

No thats taken away from the whole total. Like I bought a 16GB touch and when I got it there was 14.8GB left. The rest was for the OS...

No, as has been mentioned that's just because of the formatting; that doesn't make any sense anyway. You're saying the OS on your iPod takes up 1.2GB. On my 8GB touch, the total capacity says 7.24GB, meaning that by your logic my OS only takes up .76GB. That isn't right. It just comes down to the 1000/1024 formatting that David G. mentioned.

goosnarrggh · Jul 6, 2008, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sgtboy

a large chunk of that is likely the OS on the Ipod touch

At lease a portion of the iPod Touch's OS must NOT be included in the 'other' heading. Remember, the downloaded OS dmg is around 150 MB, and that's in a compressed form. The OP has stated that the 'other' section in his iPod Touch currently weighs in at 80 MB, and was looking for an explanation as to why his iPod Touch's 'other' section is so much smaller than his daughter's.

The difference is probably due to cached web pages, email messages (if the Mail app is in use) etc.

Crank2047 · Jan 28, 2013, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by sgtboy

very likely temporary internet files from safari, go to safari options on your touch and delete history/temporary file (or whatever its called) and see what happens. Also a restore via itunes is another option if your desperate to clear it. Have you JB'ed it at all?

1st. What is OS?:confused

2nd. I did what you said. Didn't work

and 3rd. Why do these things allways happen to me!!!

akfgpuppet · Jan 28, 2013, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Crank2047

1st. What is OS?:confused

2nd. I did what you said. Didn't work

and 3rd. Why do these things allways happen to me!!!

1. OS is the Operating System.
2. Back up and restore you iPod. That did it for me. I had like 2GB of data in other afterwards I had less than a Gig.
3. This happens to everybody.

RKO · Nov 24, 2008, 01:32 AM

I always thought other consisted of data from mail/safari and application/games cache/scores etc.

SnowLeopard2008 · Nov 24, 2008, 01:40 AM

it's like a scratch disk. some apps store data there, mail stores its crap there, text messages (iPhone only

), Notes, Safari, etc. You get the idea...

TacticalDesire · Jan 28, 2013, 04:02 PM

Go to settings, safari, advanced, website data and hit delete all website data

Wadetoms · Mar 16, 2013, 12:18 AM

better delete

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sgtboy macrumors 6502 Join Date: Dec 2007	very likely temporary internet files from safari, go to safari options on your touch and delete history/temporary file (or whatever its called) and see what happens. Also a restore via itunes is another option if your desperate to clear it. Have you JB'ed it at all?
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