Thread: Ipod Issues

Okay so I recently got an itouch.

Everything was well and good, I had stored numerous things on it. I had used up about half of the space. Most of it was audio, and very, very little was "other." Now just yesterday, I plugged in my ipod to see about two-thirds of the memory was being taken up by "other." It practically filled in out of nowhere. Then it displayed, "Ipod is unable to sync because there is not enough free space." I deleted all my podcasts, photos, web history, saved alarms etc etc. Pretty much everything, but it still displays two-thirds of the storage being "other."

I don't know where any of this is coming from. Any ideas? I just deleted most of my bookmarks form youtube and it made no difference in the space. Maybe I should master delete everything from my ipod?

Hmm, i think i understand what is going on.

Its a shame you had to delete all that off of it. But i think that if you want to get rid of it, a system refresh/restore would do it best. You see if i was there i could look and see where these big files are and sort it for you, but it turns out that i'm not.

My suggestion before you do a restore on it is to plug it in and then go into "My Computer", then into the device folder which is the iPod, then hover the mouse over the folders and see which carries the most amount of memory, then you can narrow it down per folder until you find the big files which are taking up the memory. For something like this to happen it is unlikely the files would be scattered, just do it step by step to find the folder with the biggest amount of files in it and you should find the huge file. If you find a folder of files or a big file, report back and tell me, i'll tell you if its delete-worthy.

Empty your email account. More than likely it downloaded an attachment to an email that was really big.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Empty your email account. More than likely it downloaded an attachment to an email that was really big.

Thats providing she bought the extra applications pack, if she didn't, then it rules out mail completely.

It might be your cache, if iPod touch has a cache. As in like, internet files.

Originally Posted by wasup

It might be your cache, if iPod touch has a cache. As in like, internet files.

But if it was cache, surely it would have been building up slowly over time? This too me looks like either an accidental file transfer, or maybe a mess up on the iPods end.

Xox, tell us more, then help can be at hand!

But to be quite honest with you, if you have deleted most of your content, i would just do a restore, if your music is still intact, i suggest telling us more and seeing if there is a suitable solution.

Deleting my mail was the first thing I did, As I said I pretty much deleted everything.

Hm, ok LS, I'm currently at "My Computer" and there are like 4 things under "Devices With Removable Storage." One of them is the DVD Drive, the other three are removable disks. So which one of these is the ipod?

For the record, I'm a noob with PC things.

Okay, your iPod should be a device that says "iPod" or whatever you named it, it should be in "My Computer" if its plugged in, but if it isn't showing up then there may be some problems in terms of connection and you may need to solve the problem using the iPod itself which is not too hard.

Let me know if you can find the iPod device, if you can, double click it and enter the device, just like you'd double click "My Documents" to view your documents.

I'll be here every step of the way

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Okay, your iPod should be a device that says "iPod" or whatever you named it, it should be in "My Computer" if its plugged in, but if it isn't showing up then there may be some problems in terms of connection and you may need to solve the problem using the iPod itself which is not too hard.

Let me know if you can find the iPod device, if you can, double click it and enter the device, just like you'd double click "My Documents" to view your documents.

I'll be here every step of the way

Just plugged it out, and plugged it back in. It's not showing up. I guess there are some connection problems here.

And thanks LS, I really appreciate it.