How to delete "Others" to free up storage?

The storage of my 32G iphone4S is almost full. However, when I connect with iTune, I can see that 9G of these are showing in yellow as "Others" which I cannot delete. What can I do to delete these "Others" to free up the storage? Thanks!

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Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
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Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
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2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
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4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
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If use above code to delete other blob file, does it success? see more:
how to delete azure blob storage , please consider this factor, Storage Emulator 2.2 is currently incompatible with Storage Client Library 3.0.0.0. This has been mentioned in Storage Team Blob as well:
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How to delete "other"

i have a 500 gb hard drive and 341 gb is filled with something called "other"
i dont know how to delete it

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iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
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Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
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*Feedback*
"Use the form below to send us your comments. We read all feedback carefully, but please note that we cannot respond to the comments you submit."
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
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http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142
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Hi,
I have been taking photos on my iphone 4 since I inherited it from my daughter. It has 16Gb memory, and I have just 1.64Gb left from 14.8 Gb. There are 5 folders, with 8digit names housing photos numbered from 0-999, 1000-1999, 2000-2999, 3000-3999 and some in a folder 4000-4020 (these are the most recent obviously).
Itunes tells me I have over 60% of my phone memory taken up with photos, but does not give me any option to see them, let alone delete them! I then shut down itunes, and just opened the DCIM folder.
I have no Mac - just a Windows PC, running Windows 7.
I have copied photos from all the folders to backup folders and the folder with photos 0-999 dissappeared after I copied it off the phone.
I have deleted photos 1000 to 1999 out of the folder, (although the folder itself won't delete, even though it appears empty.)
same with 2000-2999. I have been left with some .xmp files which won't delete.
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Please can someone tell me how to reclaim the space (without deleting all my apps etc by restoring the phone)
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Hi,
I have been taking photos on my iphone 4 since I inherited it from my daughter. It has 16Gb memory, and I have just 1.64Gb left from 14.8 Gb. There are 5 folders, with 8digit names housing photos numbered from 0-999, 1000-1999, 2000-2999, 3000-3999 and some in a folder 4000-4020 (these are the most recent obviously).
Itunes tells me I have over 60% of my phone memory taken up with photos, but does not give me any option to see them, let alone delete them! I then shut down itunes, and just opened the DCIM folder.
I have no Mac - just a Windows PC, running Windows 7.
I have copied photos from all the folders to backup folders and the folder with photos 0-999 dissappeared after I copied it off the phone.
I have deleted photos 1000 to 1999 out of the folder, (although the folder itself won't delete, even though it appears empty.)
same with 2000-2999. I have been left with some .xmp files which won't delete.
However... No space has been reclaimed, as still the free space is 1.64Gb left of 14.8Gb!
Please can someone tell me how to reclaim the space (without deleting all my apps etc by restoring the phone)
Thanks

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Good day all,
I have a 4S that had 5+G of "other" that I was trying to free up. I searched and searched, tried all the suggestions and had no success. I tried a full restore and freed up the memory but didn't want to loose all my settings, app folders, etc. After a process of elimination the solution that worked for me was to delete txt messages! When I went from the 3G to the 4S I restored from a back up. I've never delete any of my txt message history... so all that information, photos, videos, etc were being caried from one device to the other for like 3 years!
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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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