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iPhone free space?

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Almeuit

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May 25, 2011
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I have an iPhone 4 (16GB) model running iOS 4.1 jailbroken with greenpois0n. I download things like family guy from mega upload to my phone with safari downloader and then use ifile to watch ... when im done i delete. I noticed today i deleted a good hunk of my Family guy and don't see much improvement on my space? It did free up a little but seemed to take up more downloading it then when i delete it. (Example: I was at 7 GB before ... now after watching / deleting i am at 5.4).

Any way to get this free space back? I am scared to keep downloading...
 
Almeuit said:
I have an iPhone 4 (16GB) model running iOS 4.1 jailbroken with greenpois0n. I download things like family guy from mega upload to my phone with safari downloader and then use ifile to watch ... when im done i delete. I noticed today i deleted a good hunk of my Family guy and don't see much improvement on my space? It did free up a little but seemed to take up more downloading it then when i delete it. (Example: I was at 7 GB before ... now after watching / deleting i am at 5.4).

Any way to get this free space back? I am scared to keep downloading...
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did you deleted your ifile trash?
 
In the settings on iFile i have "Use trash" as no so i do not see a trash folder within the iFile folder. :(
 
Sadly no.

I just did a test .... I had 5.2 GB free ... i went and downloaded tron HD (Part 1) which was 950MB... so i dropped to 4.2 GB free ... I then deleted the file from iFile and i am still at 4.2GB. I rebooted the phone and still stuck at 4.2 GB ... this is really odd o_O
 
Almeuit said:
Sadly no.

I just did a test .... I had 5.2 GB free ... i went and downloaded tron HD (Part 1) which was 950MB... so i dropped to 4.2 GB free ... I then deleted the file from iFile and i am still at 4.2GB. I rebooted the phone and still stuck at 4.2 GB ... this is really odd o_O
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is it possible you have to plug into itunes to recaclulated free space
 
Not that i can find on the web or on my phone.

Has no one else ever had this issue? Maybe i need to unjailbreak / restore / re-jailbreak? o_O... Ive never seen somethin like this b 4
 
it may have put them in a different directory. this happened to me. I would downlaod with safari download manager and then click the download and "open with ifile" and it would make a copy in the downloads for safari download manager section and the normal download section!
var/mobile/media/downloads
and
var/mobile/documents

checik and report back?
 
Benji222 said:
it may have put them in a different directory. this happened to me. I would downlaod with safari download manager and then click the download and "open with ifile" and it would make a copy in the downloads for safari download manager section and the normal download section!
var/mobile/media/downloads
and
var/mobile/documents

checik and report back?
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I downloaded the Tron to the var/mobile/media/downloads and then deleted it from there. I checked var/mobile/documents and do not see anything there :(
 
Thanks for the ifunbox idea! ... I am running another test now to see if what i found is exactly what i think. Ill post my findings/fixes here shortly.
 
I was actually unable to post my findings because i downloaded another movie .. which dropped my space .. then deleted it and it went back up.

I am not sure if this was a bug or what ... but i used iFunBox to search for anything related to the word "Family" since i did download the whole season. I found a bunch of episodes cached in an application i never really used (Movies by Flixster app) and i deleted that app using the iFunBox. It free'd up my space! I am at 7.7 GB now...

So i guess it was a bug because after downloading the other movie and deleting it .. it took me down to 6.3 GB ... i deleted it and went back to 7.7 GB ... So i guess i am good now...

But for future people ... USE iFunBox to search your entire iPhone for any cache (let it search the whole phone ... can take a little while) and you might just come across a buncha cached stuff that you had no idea it was keeping...




Thanks again Benj for the iFunBox idea and also to you iisfo_riphone for attempting to help! :)
 
I wanted to make a correction to my solved post. It was actually vlc that was storing a cache not flixster. My guess is because when you load a movie from ifile and select vlc media player it had to load it into the player which depending on how big the file was took a little time.. It had to cache it. I sense got rid of VLC and now just use apple built in QuickTime (which loads quickly.. No cache) and it plays instant..and I am able to delete without with gaining my space back :D.

Sorry for the grammar.. On my iPhone and to lazy to punctuate :x
 
Almeuit said:
I wanted to make a correction to my solved post. It was actually vlc that was storing a cache not flixster. My guess is because when you load a movie from ifile and select vlc media player it had to load it into the player which depending on how big the file was took a little time.. It had to cache it. I sense got rid of VLC and now just use apple built in QuickTime (which loads quickly.. No cache) and it plays instant..and I am able to delete without with gaining my space back :D.

Sorry for the grammar.. On my iPhone and to lazy to punctuate :x
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where is the vlc cache found?
 
iisforiphone said:
where is the vlc cache found?
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When I used ifunbox it found it within the app. In ifunbox you can search the whole iPhone so I did a search for "family" (since I was looking for family guy) and it found it under the "user Applications" in the VLC application section and it had it all cached there. Soon as I deleted it i got the free space back. Now i only use the built in player and once I delete the file I get my space back after ~5 mins of deletion.
 
Almeuit said:
When I used ifunbox it found it within the app. In ifunbox you can search the whole iPhone so I did a search for "family" (since I was looking for family guy) and it found it under the "user Applications" in the VLC application section and it had it all cached there. Soon as I deleted it i got the free space back. Now i only use the built in player and once I delete the file I get my space back after ~5 mins of deletion.
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cool, 2 more questions does the built in player play all files types from iFile once downloaded? and it seems all my safari downloads are in 2 locations is this normal?

var/mobile/Media/Downloads

and

var/mobile/Documents

and im not saying its saves in either or, both locations as a copy of every download
 
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