My iPod deleted most of my apps!

This morning I woke up and most of my apps were gone! Thankfully I have iCloud so I just installed them all again..... Does anyone know what happened? I have a iPod touch 4th gen that is running iOS 5. Thanks!

Connect the iPod to your computer and look at the storage used by the various categories as shown in the colored bargarph in iTunes.
If the "other" category is greater than about 1 1/2 GB that usually indicates that the "other" includes corrupted files.  Usually restoring from backup eliminated the corrupted files. However, sometimes restoring to factory settings/new iPod is required.
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up
To restore to factory settings/new iPod see:
iTunes: Restoring iOS software

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