7.35gb of "Other"????

OK...since the firmware upgrade I have had at least one problem per day and it's not getting any better. Now I have 2.53gb of audio, 2.45gb of video, 105mb of photos, 1.23gb of apps, and *7.96 of Other*. What the heck is Other??? I only have 2 audio books on there and NOTHING else. It shows that I only have 389mb of free space!!! That's insane. I have restarted, reset, restored and I am re-ally getting frustrated. Even Apple support couldn't figure it out in a 15 minute phone call today. Can anyone help me???

I just want to bring a little positive vibration to the newbie. I've been using macs since 1988. Today I had the exact same problem as you, and for the life of me, there is still no real answer to what is "other" ... corrupt file is probably a good guess but the files are not really corrupted, its just that iTunes is not wanting to see it for what it is, Other is basically your existing files of music and photos and videos.... but now they are in some unreachable cache or memory, making them effectively corrupt files
In my case updating to iTunes 8.1.1 turned out to be a nightmare for my iPhone. By small miracle I happened to have 8.0 on my other macintosh.
Apple does NOT want users reversing and using old versions, so... they do not make old versions of iTunes available, My problems began with 8.1 and I solved it by replacing it with my own backup of 8.0
So when I restored my iPhone ,..... I got 7.1 Gbs of "Other"
Just like user suggested, I restored and now I have 129mb of other, Go figure, at least I can live with that for now....
Never feel less than equal just because your new, but it really helps to include your machine info and Operating system because the brainiacs who helps us, often need that info to diagnose your problems, cheers!!!!
Go to the apple top left and choose about this mac, then click more info to really find out whats under the hood

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