but you should have it there.ģ.actually thats it. if you're using ifile it will ask you to move it to the trash, "tap move to trash" if you do not have any zip-stored apps there this wont work for you. And delete everything in applicationarchives you have there. im using ifile, then you wont need a computer.Ģ.go to /var/mobile/media/applicationarchives. whatever, the main thing is that you can edit inside the root of your iphone/ipod. The main reason why other is taking space is because if you interrupt a transfer-sync or sync it stores your unsynced/interrupted/corrupted app as a zip folder in /var/mobile/media/applicationarchives.ġ.download iphone explorer,ifile or diskaid. and btw, this not you know a method where you delete a log from a specific app or anything. follow my instructions to the letter because this is what i did and the "sync and not sync music" method isnt working for many people so plz give this a shot cuz i just want to help you guys. i do not think it will work if you have like 15 gb but i dont know you really should try this. I felt that i had to write it, beause this is in 90% cases the reason why other is taking up space. Once the sync is complete your iPhone should be all sorted again.ĮVERYONE READ THIS THIS, IMPORTANT, IT MIGHT GIVE YOU MUCH SPACE BACK! THIS IS THE "MAIN" SOLUTION. This will put your music back onto the iPhone, and you should not see any of the “other files” taking up any of the iPhone memory. Step 7: Reconnect your iPhone to iTunes and recheck “sync music” Hold both of them until the iPhone has switched off and the Apple logo appears on the screen before releasing both buttons. The reboot is done by holding down the “power down” button at the top right at the same times as holding down the control button. Once the iPhone has finished syncing, unplug it and perform a reboot. Don’t worry about this though, as in the next steps you will sync the music back onto your iPhone. This will remove all music files from your iPhone, but keep all other content. With “music sync” still turned off in iTunes, sync your iPhone. They include the files that are hogging your iPhone memory under “other files”. Step 4: Delete/remove all subfolders in Musicĭelete all the subfolders under the Music folder. Under the Music folder you will likely see a lot of subfolders starting with “f”. Go to the iTunes Control Folder and then the subfolder called Music. In DiskAid you will see an overview of all the folders and files on your iPhone. Step 3: Go into iTunes Control folder and then the Music folder When the program is running, at the bottom left corner it says “DiskAid folder”, click on the drop down list and choose “media folders”. Make sure your iPhone is connected with the USB when you open up DiskAid. They offer a free trial of the software so no need to purchase it first time you have to use it at least. Step 2: Install DiskAid software on computer/mac (Instead of using DiskAid (paid), I used iPhone Explorer (which is free.))ĭiskAid is a neat little software that allows you transfer files to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, treating it as a USB drive. When you have synced your iPhone and noticed that “other files” have taken up a lot of storage space on the iPhone, un-tick the “sync music” alternative in iTunes before un-connecting your iPhone. Note: once you have the iphone volume mounted using Netatalk, as above, you can also use a graphical disk space viewer such as GrandPerspective to view the space breakdown on your phone. (actually this delete was running so slowly, I canceled it, dragged the newer folders into a sub-folder, then logged in via ssh and deleted that subfolder using rm -rf : this was still slow, but much faster than the move to Trash in Finder) then sorted the folder by date, and deleted the newer ones. with some experimentation, I determined that the newer-dated folders were the culprits I noticed that there were always two folders with exactly the same size, one dated old, and one dated at the time I'd restored from backup after installing iOS 5 this will show the size of all Application folders, but will take some time in Finder, click View>Show View Options, and, click "Calculate All Sizes", and sort Applications window by Size now navigate in the Finder to /var/mobile/Applications, list view connect to my iphone in the Finder window (using whatever you have the iphone's root password set to - default is "alpine") my iphone then shows up in the left column of a Mac Finder window as an available server connect both iphone and my Mac to my WiFi network installed Netatalk in Cydia (AppleTalk implementation) I discovered that most of my "Other" space was taken up by duplicate copies of my applications (!).
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