IPad/iTunes syncing issue - went from 25 free GB to 4 GB

when syncing both my iPad 2 and iPad mini (both 64 GB) both went from 25 free GB to 4 GB. The "other" category is 22 GBs. How do I free up the space and/or determine what's in the "other" category taking up so much space?

It seems like double the size of the app is needed to install it on the device.

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Please feel free to inform me if this inquiry might be better posted in a different section of the discussion forums.
*iPhone-iTunes Syncing Issues*
(3G Phone w/ 2.2 Firmware & iTunes 9.0.1.8 running on a Dell PC w/ Windows XP Pro Operating System)
With the newest 9.0.1 version of iTunes...
When you synch your Windows XP Pro PC with your iPhone (3G) device & instruct the software to synchronize your iPhone Safari "Bookmarks" with your PC's Internet Explorer "Favorites," should there not be a bi-directional transfer of the information?
(from iPhone to PC and also from PC to iPhone?)
I synched my phone yesterday & it appears that there was a successful transfer of Internet Explorer "Favorites" into the iPhone. However, neither were my iPhone Safari "Bookmarks" retained on the iPhone nor were they transferred over to the PC (& into Internet Explorer).
Do I need to also install Safari on the PC to get a successful bi-directional transfer? OR am I simply not looking in the correct place on the computer to retrieve all the Bookmarks that were apparently removed from the iPhone?
Furthermore, I've been experiencing difficulty with getting PodCasts that are already sitting in my iTunes account to transfer over to the iPhone 3G.
When I launch the synch operation, commonly the iTunes progress meter will seemingly go to completion. However, the iPhone will ultimately disappear from the left-side iTunes windowpane & the actual iPhone screen will continue to state: "Sync in Progress." The iPhone will remain in this state for HOURS & HOURS, until I ultimately slide the button to cancel the operation. I have literally left the iPhone connected to the synch computer while the iPhone's "Sync in Progress" status message remained the same for *17+ HOURS. This can not be normal*.
Any insight would be helpful.

Note: I resolved the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling itunes with this procedure;-)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1224?viewlocale=en_US

Can you make itunes sync random music from your libary to iphone?

Can you make itunes sync random music from your libary to iphone?

You sync both to your computer.
Everything should be on your computer, just sync it ot the iphone.

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The ipad will sync itunes content and pics from one and only one computer at a time. When you sync to another it will indeed erase the current content from the ipad and replace with content from the new computer.
You need to copy everything from your old computer or your backup copy of the old computer to the new one.

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I was arranging my apps in my iPad into the folders that mirror my iPhone (because of the issue with restoring iPad from iPhone backup and folder arrangment doesn't sync).
I tried re-arranging the apps in iTunes, but everytime I sync'ed, the apps on the iPad would revert back to the original restore.
What I did was:
1) delete the iPad backup from iTunes.
2) eject iPad from iTunes
3) re-arrange apps on iPad
4) re-connect to iTunes using cable.
5) back up and sync to iTunes
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I get that ipad specific apps wouldn't transfer, but I'm talking games like angry birds and words with friends, stuff that I would have to repurchase to get on my iphone at this point even though they're in my itunes.
I went to the app store on my iphone and looked where you said but they weren't there either.
Can I really not put games I've purchsed on more than one device with the same itunes acct?? that seems odd...

Myriad iTunes sync issues - song cutoffs - artwork problems - yeech!

Hi all,
I’m running the latest version of iTunes on a (late 2013) Macbook Pro Retina laptop, and having several different flavors of syncing issues with my two devices – a 16 gb iPhone 4S running iOS 7.1, and a 32 gb iPod Touch 3rd Gen running iOS 5.1.1.
As best I can tell, some syncing issues such as one of the ones I am experiencing (songs chopped-off when transferred and attempted to playback from the device) have existed in some way, shape or form for nearly 10 years now, so I’m not expecting any grand revelations here - but just looking for some honest advice on how to resolve in the shortest amount of time & with the least pain considering I have a fairly large music library in terms of syncing time required. That being said, below bulleted-out are my current issues / frustrations / thoughts on where the problems may lie.   I would appreciate any advice:
Purchased iTunes songs (ripped MP3’s from CD’s that I own and tracks from other sources do not seem to have the problem…) play fine in iTunes on my laptop, but when transferred to either my iPhone or iPod, they will randomly (it’s not every track) be cutoff near the end of the song. Sometimes the song will stop with 2 minutes remaining and go silent. Sometimes it will stop with 15 seconds remaining and go silent. Sometimes it will stop somewhere in that time range and start the next track on the album while still displaying the info from the previous track. The only solution I have found to this for purchased content thus far is to wipe everything out, and go back and download the tracks from the cloud. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 tracks that fall into this category, so my options to download directly to the device an artist at a time are kind of time-consuming and cumbersome. Would this have something to do with the file format of purchased tracks vs. ripped ones? I have a lot of older ripped material that was imported as MP3’s or MP3’s converted to M4A’s that never seems to have this problem. The newer purchased files are mostly ACC’s which DO have the problem.   Also would this have anything to do with the fact that my library (including most of the purchased content) was recently moved over and imported to a new Macbook from a Windows backup? Most of my iTunes library was Windows / PC for the majority of its existence for the past decade or so; we only recently switched back to Mac.
Discrepancies between deleting material on a device vs. what iTunes recognizes when it is plugged back in: The other day, being frustrated with the random song chopping, I deleted everything on my iPod Touch 3rd Gen by going into Settings, Options, General, and “Usage” and then “Edit” and selecting to wipe out everything in iTunes. The device appeared to do this, and I was showing 28 gb or so free out of 32 once it completed. Great, right? I proceeded the rest of that day to painstakingly download approx. 900 tracks from the cloud onto the device, hoping to correct the chopping issue. It did this, and I still had roughly 10 gb free. Great, right? Later that night when I plugged the iPod into my Macbook with the 30 pin to sync, iTunes on the laptop for some reason still recognized the songs which I thought I had deleted hours earlier and showed me multiple copies of everything. For the ones that had been deleted, when I clicked to play them on the iPod through iTunes, I got the little gray exclamation point - ! – in a circle like when a track has moved libraries and cannot be found. iTunes then told me my sync could not be completed due to being over capacity on the device by a ridiculous 12 gb or something like that. Huh?? I could have gone through and manually deleted the (by that point more than 1000) duplicate tracks and synced to have made room I suppose – but after accidentally hitting Autofill – iTunes threw up its hands and would not let me do anything further. Any attempts at that point to delete either pending Autofill tracks or missing duplicate tracks just led to endless spinning on the “Preparing Update” notice on the device which led to me having to kill iTunes. Can you say big-time frustration? I eventually opted to restore the iPod to factory (iOS 5.1.1) settings and start over. That device is currently at home slogging through the process of attempting to re-download 400 some songs from the cloud over wi-fi so that I can avoid the cutoff track problem. The plan after that is to sync playlists for certain artists over top of the purchased tracks so that my ripped tracks can merge with them to round out the playlist. Do you see how this is beginning to become a marathon?
Last but not least - it seems to be just since the last few iTunes upgrades for Mac, but I’m having a huge problem suddenly with album artwork staying synced properly. After one recent manual transfer session (30 pin between the iPhone and the Macbook) roughly half of the tracks I transferred had mismatched artwork. Doing this through the cloud (downloading tracks “Not on this iPhone” via the iTunes app) doesn’t seem to have the same problem, but of course this takes longer. Also, what is the deal with “Show All Music” in iOS 7 and playing tracks from the cloud? This is a really cool feature that allows you to save a ton of disk space on your device, but I have found that when I do this that many tracks have mismatched artwork. For example right now I’m listening to a Grateful Dead song that is displaying Genesis artwork. Huh?? Artwork is less of a big deal than the track lengths being chopped off, but it’s still annoying.
iTunes revolutionized the music industry and on the whole has been fantastic. But it seems as if lately, little irritating problems like the syncing issues are becoming more and not less prevalent, and the problem is they aren't being dealt with. I got my first Mac in college nearly 20 years ago now, and have been generally entrhalled with Apple products ever since. But I have to say that this kind of junk lately is more what I would expect in the vein of problems from the shoddy-PC world that seem to linger and never get fixed. Cupertino folks - what's the deal???

You're not the only one judging by the forums!
Likewise I have been using Apples since the Apple IIe(!) and have found them great in every respect. iTunes however over the past couple of years has deteriorated to th point of being unuseable. Apple has made iTunes the hub of your digital life and so it really has to work seemlessly.
I currently have had to completely wipe and re-install my 64Gb iPhone 4s several times to get my music back on to it. I cannot het any playlists to sync which is really annoying and it generally undermines my faith in Apples software quality.
Please put whatever resources are necessary to fix this soon Apple or you will certainly start to haemorrhage customers to other platforms. After all if iTunes remains broken then what's the point of paying the extra for Apple qulaity? You may as well uplaod ebverything to Google play and be done with it!

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*Two weeks ago I tried syncing my iPad to my itunes account for the first time, (note this is a used iPad given by a friend)
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....trying again.

What I was asking is - did you try quitting iTunes, restart the computer and then try again ..... or are you just trying to sync over an over again without killing all processes first?
What I meant about removing the backup did not mean quitting the backup process. I was suggesting deleteing the backup from the computer in iTunes.
Launch iTunes and go to Edit>Preferences>Devices and look at any backups that you may have in there. If it is showing multiple backups, delete all but one and then quit iTunes, restart the computer and then try to sync again.

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So, I've had my shuffle for about 11 months now and it's generally been problem free until recently. Now, for some reason, it's giving me this stupid syncing issue. Everytime when I sync my ipod in itunes, it for some reason feels the need to resync a large number of the tracks, which takes FOREVER (sometimes it will go for many hours without finishing because it just syncs and deletes the same tracks over and over). Sometimes it will just finish syncing the tracks and be done, but then if I copy another file, it'll try to resync everything, but other times it will just enter an endless cycle of sync, delete, sync delete, etc. It seems to happen with the same tracks everytime, so I'm not sure what the problem is. No, there is definitely not a problem with the files on my computer; it is either an issue with Itunes or my Ipod, probably Itunes because I've been able to sync the tracks using other programs without any problems. However, I don't know of another free program that will convert the tracks to 128 before syncing which is very important for me, so I can't really just use another program. The files are not corrupt, I have Itunes 7.5, my Ipod has been updated. Itunes already MASSIVELY blows with Vista... Is it possibly a compatibility issue or something? Basically, can anyone help me? This is getting so frustrating that I'm about ready to throw this thing in the garbage and switch to a different brand of Mp3 player...

I'm having the same thing too. I'd resync my iPod overnight (to downconvert to AAC) and I will come back the next morning and it will not have completely filled up the Shuffle. Then just before work I'd delete one song from it that I didn't want and it would suddenly resync another new 57 songs automatically without even asking!
I've once took it one morning anyways even though it didn't fully resync, and I noticed that when randomly playing a song it would intermittently start the beginning of another song for a fraction of a second, then whatever song would play.
I am now spending most of my time resyncing my Shuffle and hardly ever use it anymore.
This seemed to have occurred with the latest iTunes update.

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