"other"files

JoeShades

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Sep 22, 2012

• #1

I now have almost 3 Gigs of other files on my ipad, i only have the 16 gig ipad so this is a problem, i have seen some say download iexplorer and that will help but that cost way too much, what can be done about this?

 

Intell

macrumors P6

• Sep 22, 2012

• #2

Not much. You can restore your iPad, but the other category will just grow again.

 

JoeShades

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Sep 22, 2012

• #3

is this a common problem? also itunes is saying i have 1 gb of photos on my ipad, but i have none on there right now and none in the photo stream 😕

 

Intell

macrumors P6

• Sep 22, 2012

• #4

It's a problem common to those that don't know how computers work and what they need. Uncheck the photo sync box in iTunes, sync your iPad, make sure nothing is in the Camera Roll, restart it, and resync it with or without the photos being synced to it.

 

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dchao

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 22, 2012

• #5

JoeShades said:

is this a common problem? also itunes is saying i have 1 gb of photos on my ipad, but i have none on there right now and none in the photo stream 😕

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The "others" and your "photos" are probably left over from the Mail download cache. These files may not get deleted sometimes after the email is removed.

The best way is to restore your iPad when the "others" are growing too big.