Phone Disk Shows Incorrect Free Space

Hi all
I am using Phone Disk on the Mac (makes the iPad/iPhone show up as a hard drive) and its showing the incorrect amount of hard drive capacity and free space.  It does this on both mine and my girlfriends iPhone and also on my iPad. For example, I know I have 10gb available on my 64gb iPad but Phone Disk shows me I have only 900mb free out of 1.5gb of hard drive space.  I have also installed iPhone Explorer and this also has the same problem.  I'm a little confused!
Thanks
Rich

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4467217

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