Other data is taking up massive memory

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1
I've been having ongoing problems with 'other' data blocking up my 128GB iPhone6. Not just small bits but 50, 60 sometimes 70GB of it. This even appears on an iPhone with no videos, no browsing, no email accounts, no photos and no apps installed, and just about 30GB of music. Do a complete fresh restore, put some music on it, fine, sync it with iTunes again and a massive block of 'other' data appears again. Tried it as a completely new phone as well as restoring from a backup but no difference.
iOS8, iTunes and Yosemite all completely up to date.
Any hints? Getting rid of it isn't the only problem as it just comes back again within a day or two.
Ta

Just a small problem, a suggestion elsewhere was to remove the iTunes library and let it reimport everything from scratch in case it was the library which was corrupted, letting it manage the folders as well. That means all 17,000ish tracks are showing as imported in the same day and in Finder all the folder dates are new as well. Don't suppose anyone knows of any other ways of identifying corrupt or just recent files?

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HT201442 restoring and other data

why can't I restore my iphone? My "other" data is taking up 5GB of my 6.34 capacity storage. Have erased all photos, videos, apps and music. when i try to restore I get a message that: could not restore, the device isn't eligible for the requested build. Anyone have any suggestions to: a) get the other data off my phone, b) restore phone?!!??!
Any advice appreciated.

Like every other operating system, iOS stores temporary files and app caches locally on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, and these files can build up over time. Generally iOS is pretty good at housekeeping, but if you’ve had a device for a long time and haven’t deleted old unused apps, resynced recently, or restored from a backup, you may have more of these temporary files and caches stored on your iOS device than you think.
You can use apps like iLike, Phoneclean to remover these junk files and "other" data:
iLike: http://download.cnet.com/iLike/3000-18512_4-75996452.html

What is "other" data taking up space on my Mac and how do I delete it?

A lot of my Mac's memory is occupied by "other" data and I don't understand what it is.
Strange thing is, the size of my whole user folder (I'm the only user of this computer) is only 150Gb, when the occupied memory space on my Mac is around 250Gb. So what are the other 100Gb?
I tried using apps that automatically clear old caches and so on, but only a couple of Gb were cleared.
I have no idea what else to delete. What do I do?

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
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 the 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.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. 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. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the 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. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
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.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Ignore any other messages that appear in the Terminal window.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

TS1503 How do I clear the 'other data' on my iPhone 4S? It is using 25% of the available memory. I do not want to have to wipe it and then reset every thing I use. That's why I have restore. Except restore puts the other data back on the phone.

I've come to the conclusion that Apple is no better than Microsoft. There was a functional iTunes. I could sync music, playlists, etc; across my iPad and iPhone. I can't now. It now eats up storage on my devices with 'other data', and Apple is silent on what is going on. I currently have 2 iMacs, 2 iPads, a Macbook Pro, and an AirBook Pro. I will stop purchasing Apple products. It is a royal pain to fix anything. This support page tries my patience to use. I used to enjoy working with Apple products, simply because they functioned and where intuitive to use. No more. Music is impossible to sync across platforms using the same account. Songs only, no playlists. This is step back to the early year of systems. No common data formats, zero portablity, and labor intensive.
Way to go Apple, you've destroyed your reputation!

Similar issue -- this is the third time in as many months that I've had to restore my iPad. It's a iPad Mini w/ 32GB (ME277LL/A), running the latest iOS8.1.2. The "other" data starts off about 1GB and will bob around that. I was careful about games this time, seeing only a slight rise in the data. Once it started to rise, I deleted all of the game and the data on Game Center. No joy -- the data stays about the same.
Then I noticed it was really climbing -- shooting up to about 10GB and sitting there, no matter what I did: sync it: nothing. Deleting music (on the off chance it was album art or some such: nothing. Deleted all the books in iBooks: no effect -- still 10GB. Cleared the iCloud storage, cleared caches repeatedly: nothing. Reset everything: no effect. Only Restoring the iPad -- which takes forever and is a gigantic pain in the @$$ -- gets it down. This is exactly the same thing that happened the other two times -- I lose about 10GB to "other."
I now suspect, thinking on what I was doing with the device, that pulling movies from iTunes seems to be the culprit. Deleting the movies might take the movie "off the iPad", but there seems to be a corresponding jump in Other. My guess is there's some glitch dumping the information elsewhere.
It makes a 32GB iPad pretty frickin' close to useless in a remarkable amount of time. I've not had this issue until this iPad (bought last summer) with the iOS8 upgrade. I don't see this happen on the iPhone 5S with the same OS...that's why I dialed down to iTunes (when is it not smack in the middle of issues?) and Video as the culprit; I don't watch movies on the phone.
I've noticed a massive amount of posts in support and around the web on this matter...it might be time for Apple to shift it and do something about the matter. If I'm going to be restricted to surfing the web, email, and little else thanks to the Other issue, it really doesn't make sense to stick with this device. I can doo all that on my laptop, can't it?

"Other" data taking up 6gb of storage

Hi, I have an iPhone 4S that was purchased less than a year ago from Verizon. Recently, when syncing phone to my computer, I noted that there was over ^ gb of data that was classified as yellow, "other" that I for the life of me cannot get removed. I have no idea what this "other" data is. I would really like to know because my 16 gb iphone has half of the storage being used by something that I have no idea what it is. Any body have any ideas on how to fix this? I tried to restore it and it did not help.

You won't be able to sync them back to your phone, but you can archive the conversations in one of a couple of ways, including:
Taking screenshots of the conversations and saving the photos
Email the text of the conversations by open them, tapping Edit, tap all the parts you want to save, tap Forward, enter an email address/choose a contact, then tap Send
Use 3rd party software to save the entire conversation, such as Touch Copy (pc or mac) or PhoneView (mac)

IPhone "other" space taking up massive amounts of space even after restore?

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Can anyone please tell me what constitues "other" data that is taking up room on my iPad?

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How Do I Get Rid Of The “Other” Data Stored On My iPad Or iPhone?
http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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Corrupt backup: massive "other data", no music

As you can see in the image below, there is a sudden and massive increase at the "other data" (the yellow bar)
And at the same time, all my music is gone. I already tried to reinstall and to restore from a backup. During the backup process, everything looks fine, but the moment the sync is finished, this odd situation pops up again: the music is gone, and obviously in "vanished" into the "other data" part.
So, I presume, there is some kind of file corruption, but I have no idea how to proceed now. Any help would be very much appreciated.

No, the music is not on the iPhone, and when I check "usage", it says "music: 0". But at the same time, the iPhone usage says "20GB used" - although there is nothing as big (as apps or whatever).
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There is 7.82 gb of "other" data on my iPhone. How can I get rid of this? It's taking up a lot of space

I plugged in my iphone today and saw that the "other" portion of my used space was at 7.82 gb! I'm not sure what this is exactly, but how do I get rid of it or make it saller because it is hoging up a ton of the space on my phone!
Note: I have been noticing that whenever I plug in my iphone to my Mac to sync it, the "other" data gets larger, just slightly. Is that normal?

Restore from a backup will get you some 'other' back.
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Check storage.
Tap Settigs > General > About the scroll down to: Available
"only has three apps downloaded on it"
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Req. delivery date is taking other date than system date in va01

DEAR SAP GURUS ,
I am facing one porblem . when i am creating a sales order then in sales tab ( the very first tab ) in req. delivery date field it is picking other date than current system date . for example today (10.04.2009)
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Hi,
Check these links..
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Other data has gone massive since iOS 5

Will i have to restore completely to get the other data from the 3.4Gig that it is post iOS 5 back to iOS 4.3.3 0.7Gig?!

Just got off the phone with Apple, and a senior advisor told me I should restore the phone without restoring from backup. Ugh. Pain.
He did also mention, however, that it could likely be an application that isn't using the proper storage guidelines for iOS5, and thus isn't reporting its used data, and that data isn't being cleaned up.
But all in all, since my "other" jumped when I installed iOS5, he thinks it's something that is a fault in my backup.

I have an iPhone 4 8gb and I have about 6gb other that is taking up space but I dont know what it is. What do I do?

I only have 300 pictures and 2 videos, only 50 songs, I always clear my data and cookies, and history on safari, and I always delete my texting and imessaging conversations, and I clear my calling history. I also redownloaded all my apps BUT I still have 6GB "other" that is taking up space and I don't know what it is and what to do to get more memory space since I only have an 8GB phone. Also I updated my phone to, I think verison iOS 6.0.1, about 4 or 5 months ago, and I think that's when I started getting so much of my memory taking up by "other". There is another software update iOS 6.1.3 but if I were to update would that take even more room? Or is that the solution? Because I can't really do much on ly phone because I don't have enough memory space. Please help me get more memory space on my phone. And hopefully someone knows what went wrong, what's taking up 6GB of memory space, and how to fix it. Help me! Thnx

Read
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4542883?start=0&tstart=0

How do I get rid of the "other" data on my iPhone 4?

The "other" data on my iPhone 4 is currently taking up 4.5 gb of my 6.4 gb phone. As you can see I'm not very happy about this. I am basically limited too about ten apps and I cannot download iOS 7 due to my lack of storage. I was wondering if there were any ways to get rid if the "other" data without resetting my iPhone. I cannot reset my iPhone because my family has a shared data plan and a limited amount of storage to back up to on iCloud. We don't have enough storage on iCloud to backup the 5.8 gb I'm using because of the other data. Any help?

You would need to restore the iphone.

SAP paging overflow when storing data in the ABAP/4 memory.

I am trying to create a data source in BI7.0 in the Datawarehousing Workbench. But along the process when i need to select a view i get an error detailed in the following error file extract: Please go through and assist.
untime Errors MEMORY_NO_MORE_PAGING
Date and Time 06.06.2009 14:21:35
Short text
SAP paging overflow when storing data in the ABAP/4 memory.
What happened?
The current program requested storage space from the SAP paging area,
but this request could not be fulfilled.
of this area in the SAP system profile.
What can you do?
Note which actions and input led to the error.
For further help in handling the problem, contact your SAP administrator
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termination messages, in particular for long term reference.
Error analysis
The ABAP/4 runtime system and the ABAP/4 compiler use a common
interface to store different types of data in different parts of
the SAP paging area. This data includes the
ABAP/4 memory (EXPORT TO MEMORY), the SUBMIT REPORT parameters,
CALL DIALOG and CALL TRANSACTION USING, as well as internally defined
macros (specified with DEFINE).
To store further data in the SAP paging area, you attempted to
allocate a new SAP paging block, but no more blocks were
available.
When the SAP paging overflow occurred, the ABAP/4 memory contained
entries for 20 of different IDs.
Please note:
To facilitate error handling, the ABAP/4 memory was
deleted.
How to correct the error
The amount of storage space (in bytes) filled at termination time was:
Roll area...................... 8176
Extended memory (EM)........... 13587912
Assigned memory (HEAP)......... 0
Short area..................... " "
Paging area.................... 40960
Maximum address space.......... " "
By calling Transaction SM04 and choosing 'Goto' -> 'Block list',
you can display an overview of the current roll and paging memory
levels resulting from active users and their transactions. Try to
decide from this whether another program requires a lot of memory
space (perhaps too much).
The system log contains more detailed information about the
termination. Check for any unwanted recursion.
Determine whether the error also occurs with small volumes of
data. Check the profile (parameter "rdisp/PG_MAXFS", see
Installation Guidelines).
Is the disk or the file system that contains the paging file
full to the extent that it cannot be increased, although it has
not yet reached the size defined in the profile? Is the
operating system configured to accommodate files of such a
size?
The ABAP processor stores different types of data in the SAP
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(1) Data clusters (EXPORT ... TO MEMORY ...)
(2) Parameters for calling programs (SUBMIT REPORT ...),
Dialog modules (CALL DIALOG ...) and transactions
(CALL TRANSACTION USING ...)
(3) Internally defined program macros (DEFINE ...)
Accordingly, you should check the relevant statements in a program
that results in an overflow of the SAP paging area.
It is critical when many internal tables, possibly with
different IDs, are written to memory (EXPORT).
If the error occures in a non-modified SAP program, you may be able to
find an interim solution in an SAP Note.
If you have access to SAP Notes, carry out a search with the following
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"MEMORY_NO_MORE_PAGING" " "
"SAPLWDTM" or "LWDTMU20"
"TABC_ACTIVATE_AND_UPDATE"
If you cannot solve the problem yourself and want to send an error
notification to SAP, include the following information:
1. The description of the current problem (short dump)
To save the description, choose "System->List->Save->Local File
(Unconverted)".
2. Corresponding system log
Display the system log by calling transaction SM21.
Restrict the time interval to 10 minutes before and five minutes
after the short dump. Then choose "System->List->Save->Local File
(Unconverted)".
3. If the problem occurs in a problem of your own or a modified SAP
program: The source code of the program
In the editor, choose "Utilities->More
Utilities->Upload/Download->Download".
4. Details about the conditions under which the error occurred or which
actions and input led to the error.

Hi Huggins,
Maintenance of the Paging File is owned by your basis team.
They should increase this in order for your transaction to process successfully.
Just for your reference, in case the OS used is windows server 2003, paging file value can be checked through;
Right click in the My Computer>properties.
Then go to Advance tab;
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Hope this helps. Thanks a lot.
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