8gig Touch Capacity Issue

I would say apps. How apps you have? What about mail? What about Pics?

No I haven't had that problem.

 

I don't think contacts would take 3.3GB of data. Perhaps your iPod could use a restore. It will take maybe an hour, but if there are 3.3GB of "mystery" files, that should take them off (it depends on whether the iPod's drive is formatted and cleared during the restore).

My guess as to the data's origin is that they are some sort of diagnostic or other apple software left over from the factory where it was built.

 

probably the cache data left over by safari?

or files downloaded by email?

 

Do a restore. I've had this happen to my iPhone, and restoring has always fixed it.

 

do you have anything like airshare installed? i have about 2 gigs of data stored with that. it showed as other, but when i synced my ipod again it switched to apps

 

its the apps i think

same thing happened to my ipod touche when i initially installed the new firmware. another issue i have been having is itunes tries reinstall all of my apps when i sync sometimes. i thiink some minor compatibility issues that apps designed for 2.0 or 2.1 firmaware have with 2.2 firmware that cause them to not be registered in your itunes library so they show up as other files. this is just wild guess i have no idea what the problem really is but its most likely your apps that take up that space

 

That's a lot of unknown data lol. Is it jailbroken? Because when you jailbreak there is an option of increasing the partition size.