Large Orange Bar in iTunes?

[Machog]

What is the orange section marked 'other'. On my iPhone its 6.7GB, is this normal? With my music and stuff, I have less than 3GB on my phone.

Machog

[Machog]

Trying this again! Anyone know what fills the orange 'gas gauge' up in iTunes and hence my iPhone memory.

Tried cutting the number of saved messages from 50 to 25, didn't help. Its not Apps, Music or pics-someone out there must know.

Tx in advance.

Machog

[Mickeylittle]

Try shutting the phone off and then back on. It's some kind of clutter and it tends to vary. I could be wrong but my advise won't hurt a thing.

[spampy22]

I think this is the OS. When you first got your phone there was nothing loaded accept the OS and i think this is the Orange

[karenmarchant]

I remember you posting this before and I had no answer to your question, but after you posted again, I just wanted to tell you that I have never seen that much orange on ANY of my three ipod, phone, touch....Something is not right and I think you should take it to apple and have them check it out. Obviously we don't seem to be much help...I will say though, I don't think it is clutter...What clutter could it be to take up gigs of space??

[Mickeylittle]

Well I have have 400-500 MB of orange before and I have none now. It has been discussed and it is something fixable I just can't remember how. It may require a hard reset. It seems to me that flushing the system gets it to go away.

[acosmichippo]

It includes saved data by the os... SMS, picture roll, Safari caching, maybe a paging file... Also sometimes errors with iTunes syncing result in a growth in the "other" data.

[Mickeylittle]

Thanks acosmichippo and if I'm not mistaken due to those syncing errors the hard reset removes that clutter. As for the OP though, he has another thread (thanks for the tip karenmarchant) in which his other file is 6.7 gigs and so if the hard reset doesn't work he must have a messed up backup that needs to be deleted. These can occur from syncing your phone and giving up because the backup is taking way too long and unplugging it in the middle. Ouch! So with 6.7 gig you are probably going to have to restore as new but try the hard reset first.

[Machog]

Thanks for the input fellow iPhone addicts-I have FOUND the answer!

It was my Yahoo mail saved emails, jokes, CAD drawings, etc etc. My orange line is now 'worth' I.53MB!!!!!!!!!

Yea ha, my fault for being a Pack rat.

Machog

[kabirjt]

Hi Machdog,
I have the same problem. How did you clear the file. Mine is 11GB !!!!
Thanks
kabirjt@yahoo.com

[Mickeylittle]

According to what he said, he just deleted a bunch of saved emails from his phone but you have 11 GB so I doubt that's your problem. But you can delete all the email you don't really need to be keeping on your phone and I guess if you had tons of sms or mms messages that might matter too.

Of course that he said 1.53 MB, which is a tiny amount. He probably meant 1.53 GB which is larger than I consider normal. Mine has never gotten above 600 MB.

[kabirjt]

Thanks for getting back.

I do have loads of emails on my yahoo account. I have always just left them there as kind of permanent record. The thought of deleting them does not fill me with glee.

Tito

[Europa]

Hi Machdog,
I have the same problem. How did you clear the file. Mine is 11GB !!!!
Thanks

That section is for the Operating system as well as settings, email, SMS, etc. It's generally just a few hundred MB. If yours is that large (11 GB), it's likely corrupt files such as iPhone incompatible videos, that were sync'd on. If rebooting and syncing in iTunes doesn't clear it, you'll need to restore to factory settings.