IPhone shows 15GB of other-what is Other

1. Updated a iPhone 3GS 32GB. Started at 0130, just finished at 2115 (20 hours on a FIOS network) . Had 1000 plus apps on phone. Update left me with a little over 200 apps on phone. Apps are still in iTunes. Looks like a random removal, any ideas what happened?
2. The Other big question is in the capacity bar in iTunes showing my iPhone. It now has Other at 15.2 GB. before update it was about 2GB. As I typed this Other just changed to 0.66 GB & free went up to 22.8 GB. Iphone was connected to iTunes but did not touch it or the iTunes window. Any thoughts?
Been a Apple user since 4k Apple II's & never have had so many problems with a update. Just returned from a Mac User group meeting (CVMUG 1st Mac User Group in the world & still meeting) this evening & many issues were reported. All different. A few were luck & update went quickly w/no problems.

1) No. Sorry.
2) This indicates corrupt files. You will need to restore.

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The following has some information that may help: http://osxdaily.com/2013/07/24/remove-other-data-storage-iphone-ipad/

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One of the great mysteries of the Universe.
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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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I have been wondering the same thing. So I did some testing and I found other is Album artwork and something else.
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Audio 29.21GB
Video 576.9MB
Photos 5.9MB
Other 444.4MB
Free Space 25.58MB
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When I removed the movies the other size went down to 103.1.
When I removed podcasts it went to 67.7MB
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HT201656 In itunes my iphone shows up as having nearly 8G of "Other"...what is taking up all this space?

In itunes my iphone shows up as having nearly 8GB of "Other"...what is taking up all this space?
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What is this 8GB of "other" that is taking up so much storage space on my iphone?
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johncdaly1955 wrote:
In itunes my iphone shows up as having nearly 8GB of "Other"...what is taking up all this space?
Other is usually around 1 GB...
A ' Large Other ' usually indicates Corrupt Data...
First Try a Restore from Backup...
But... if the Large Other Persists, that is an Indicator of Corrupt Data in the Backup...
Then a Restore as New is the way to go...
Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
More Info Here...
maclife.com/how_remove_other_data_your_iphone
More Info about ‘Other’ in this Discussion
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19958116

In iTunes my iPhone shows 3.5 gigs of "other". How do i see what it is?

In iTunes my iPhone shows 3.5 gigs of "other". How do I see what is in the folder?

You don't.
http://osxdaily.com/2013/07/24/remove-other-data-storage-iphone-ipad/
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142

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