Iphone capacity bar shows almost full.

Hi,
I just plugged in my iphone and noticed that the capacity bar in itunes showing 12.8G of "others", I know I have songs, movies, pictures and books, but noting besides those and I used to have 22G of empty unusable space, so how can I check what those 12.8 G are and how can I remove them.
I haven't added any new apps or anything since my last sync.
Message was edited by: jeeper01ca
Message was edited by: jeeper01ca
Just turned off and back on and my "Others" shows 0.56G, which isn't a huge thing.
I wanted to delete my post, but what's done is done

I am not sure that corrupt data is always the reason. I have experienced a few times that my 13GB green stripe of apps with a few MB of orange "other" has become a couple of gigs of green apps with 10 gigs of orange "other" or other similar incorrect number. It disappears either the next time the iPhone is plugged in or after a normal sync. Similarly I have had "free space" readings that are suddenly and inexplicably as much as a gig different than it should be. This also happens during syncing when it will commonly show an aberrant "free space" number which goes back to normal after the sync.
I suspect that iOS sometimes struggles with interpreting space usage and misreads are then lumped with other readings such as "other" or free space. Interestingly, this bug only seems to affect the green, orange and "free space" bars and music, video, and photos are not affected or if so much more rarely.
I would simply ignore the glitch in the space used bar unless usage problems crop up.

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