iPhone "Spring Clean"

[hankhandsome]

A Silly Title, I know

Basically I'm getting a new hard drive tomorrow and i'm going to need to transfer my music collection to it. It made me think that what I could potentially do is use a 3rd party program (Sharepod springs to mind) to copy the music from the iPhone 4s I own directly to the new hard drive, load iTunes and re-sync as I suspect that iTunes may well assume my new hard drive means a new computer.

I've got all the necessary backups just in case - the iTunes database, the iCloud backups e.t.c., so I was wondering if there would really be any major benefit of doing a full restore when the phone is running perfectly fine?

Could it potentially free up any space?

I'm perfectly happy to just transfer the library over and not touch the phone at all, but if there's anything, however minor, to be gained from doing such a 'spring clean' then I'm certainly up for doing it.

(Oh, and hello forum )

 

[scaredpoet]

You could potentially get a reduction in the "other" space being used, but if that isn't very large now, and you aren't seeing any problems, then it might not be worth doing.

 

[hankhandsome]

thanks

I've got a 64gb 4s and i've got about 3gb free overall, mainly as i have 55gb's of music on it ..

I suppose i'm thinking along the lines of any possible cached files or temporary files left over or anything like that.

I think the whole operation would be relatively straightfoward though, since i've got the important stuff backed up to iCloud.

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

iPhone "Spring Clean"

Use phoneclean to clear up space.
http://www.imobie.com/phoneclean/
The first time i ran it it cleaned about 300-400 mb on my iPhone 5 16gb

Sent from my iPhone 5 using Tapatalk 2

 

[hankhandsome]

oohh nice, thanks for that. might save me some work

 

[hankhandsome]

just thought i'd pop back and say it did end up clearing about 300mb off the phone which was good.

having more trouble actually copying the music off to the hard drive at the moment because nothing works - probably because i've got 8,611 songs on it i suppose.

 

[iRetired]

Use phoneclean to clear up space.
http://www.imobie.com/phoneclean/
The first time i ran it it cleaned about 300-400 mb on my iPhone 5 16gb

Sent from my iPhone 5 using Tapatalk 2

Thank you! I regularly use iCleaner but this found more crap to get rid of. Good find!

 

[ericg301]

I did a restore from iCloud over the weekend, and it seemed to clear up a couple GIG worth...probably cached files.