"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)

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 Cheers, Tom

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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-remove-other-data-from-iphone/
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http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/02/iphone-ipad-ran-out-of-available-storage-space-ho w-to-fix-quick/
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http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/24/6-tips-free-up-storage-space-ipad-iphone-ipod-tou ch/
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http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-clear-message-imessage-cache-on-iphone-ipad/
What is Stored in iCloud and What is Not
https://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/what-is-s tored-in-icloud
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