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When I plug my iPhone into iTunes, I see a horizontal "bar" labeled capacity. That bar shows me the space used for "audio", "video","photos", "Apps", "Other" and "Free".

Is there a tool (on Mac/win or iPhone) that can give me more details as to what data (files, folders) is stored in those categories.

I'm especially worried about pruning the steadily growing "other" category almost 4GByte.

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Here's a support forum thread I found with some suggestions:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6502415

It sounds like you might try clearing caches, old SMS messages, and stuff like that.

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thanks for the link, I'll be checking it out... my primary motivation here is curiosity, I'd like to know what is eating my space, then step two is pruning it down... – lexu Jul 16 '09 at 14:44
In mid September my iPhone had 5GByte in the 'other' category. Doing a full restore of the phone in iTunes freed all but ca 200MBytes .. – lexu Oct 15 '09 at 17:47
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When I copy files to my jailbroken iphone through SSH (files the OS doesnt recognize i suppose), they count as 'other' space. So when I downloaded a few gigs of maps for XGPS, it was 3GB of 'Other'

Maybe that helps

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This question is similar to iPhone/iPod space usage information on the device.

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