Background: when iOS 7 is logged into iTunes, it apparently tries to cache the user's full list of app purchases. For people like me with serious app hoarding issues, this leads to two problems: the infamous "Other" storage rapidly balloons out, and eventually the App Store becomes completely unresponsive. So far, the only fix for this seems to be a restore. (Credit to Mythtery at Apple Discussions for figuring all of this out.)
I just jailbroke my iPad Mini 2 and I want to celebrate by finding a way to fix this issue that doesn't involve constantly logging out of iTunes, and periodically restoring from backups. I've thought of a couple of ways to do this, but let's start with this.
Is there a way to monitor file activity on iOS? I've had similar questions for my Mac in the past, which led me to discover fs_usage, and a whole bunch of related things. The iOS shell doesn't seem to have that though, and I couldn't find it in Cydia.
I did find this MacRumors thread, explaining how to export an inventory of every file on the iOS device, sorted by size. So I guess I could just use this technique to take a "snapshot", log in to the App Store, wait for "Other" to fatten up a bit, take another snapshot, and see what changed. But I feel like there's probably a better way to do this, so I thought I'd begin by asking here.
Thanks!
I just jailbroke my iPad Mini 2 and I want to celebrate by finding a way to fix this issue that doesn't involve constantly logging out of iTunes, and periodically restoring from backups. I've thought of a couple of ways to do this, but let's start with this.
Is there a way to monitor file activity on iOS? I've had similar questions for my Mac in the past, which led me to discover fs_usage, and a whole bunch of related things. The iOS shell doesn't seem to have that though, and I couldn't find it in Cydia.
I did find this MacRumors thread, explaining how to export an inventory of every file on the iOS device, sorted by size. So I guess I could just use this technique to take a "snapshot", log in to the App Store, wait for "Other" to fatten up a bit, take another snapshot, and see what changed. But I feel like there's probably a better way to do this, so I thought I'd begin by asking here.
Thanks!