HELP!!! No free space since Photos transition
Long story short- Photos is somehow locking up space on my iPad.
In "usage" on the iPad, it says "Photos and camera" takes up 31.2GB.
In the subdivision under that, 30.5GB are "synced from iTunes Library". My camera roll is empty, and there are only 678MB in my Photo Stream.
BUT
In the capacity bar in iTunes, it says Photos take 3.1GB (for 20,000 photos, so obviously that is wrong), and "other" is 29.5GB. And the "other" gets bigger every time I sync. I keep trying to make a backup so I can erase/restore- but it won't complete the backup since there's not enough space!
And the killer-
in iTunes I have photo sync TURNED COMPLETELY OFF. There should be ZERO pix synced from my iPhoto library! Not 30GB!
When I open the photos app, there are lots of pix. I can't tell if it's 20K, but it might be.
So how do I delete them???
I can't delete them from the iPad. I thought turning off photo sync should remove them all. But it didn't!
And- same exact situation is happing on my phone. This all started after the OS 10.3 update (changing iPhoto to Photos) yesterday.
I have same problem, Apple is focusing on its iCloud storage and broke syncing, again. Do this:
Ypu can start Image Capture and try to delete pictures there, it did not solve my problem so:
You do not have to Restore your device, you need to download PhoneView or any other application what can access your iThing storage. When you click on Photos under MEDIA you will see no photos however when you go to DATA, PhotoData you will be able to find them. Just delete everything in that folder, also delete everything in DCIM and Photos, and reboot your device. iOS will recreate all the folders a .sqlite etc. The data is cache what iTunes can not clear.
If you sync it again it will corrupt again.
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But if you had 60MB of photos and 110MB of free space, you shouldn't need to remove any apps?? At the very least it should copy as many as it can to use up all the free space?
A pretty annoying bug in iTunes sync??
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