Storage Memory is full & shouldn't be
Back on News Year Eve my iPhone 4 (16GB) crashed after shooting a 3 minute video. I kind of knew why, because the memory was full with a buttload of photos and videos that I hadn't bothered off loading yet. When my iphone rebooted and I went to photo gallery up popped up a message about rebuilding the gallery library or the likes. After it did that, about 80% of my photos and videos were missing! Ultimately, I had to use a 3rd party app to recover all those photos and videos.
Then I went and deleted every image and video from my iPhone. But in iTunes it still said 3.5GB was taken up by photos. But there weren't any photos. Since then, I've tried doing a full restore twice to my iPhone 4 but it still thinks that 3.5GB is taken up by photos. Right now I have 65 photos and two videos consisting of about 2 minutes that I've taken.
I have 3.4GB of music, 0.10 of video, 5.3gb of Apps, 1.86 of Other and that adds up to 10.66GB yet it tells me I only have 0.10GB of free space.
Does anyone know how to free up that big chunk of lost storage?
P.S. ~ My iPhone has never been jailbroken. If that matters to anyone.
So if I go with the software restore without backup, the only way to get my apps back is to download each one at a time?
All of your apps should be in your iTunes library on your computer. After restoring, you sync your phone and the apps as well as any music/media will sync back you your phone - no need to re-download them
What about any in-app purchases?
Sorry, all gone
I'll lose all my hard work on Angry Birds too? ...sniff...sniff...
Yup.
Anything else you foresee I'd lose permanently?
Text messages. Camera Roll photos and videos not synced to your photo app on your PC.
Is there really no way to wipe out the photo data but keep the apps and iphone data?
Unfortunately, there's no way to isolate the corrupted metadata giving the spurious space utilization by photos from the rest of the backup.
The only other possibility is that you're tying to sync more photos/videos than were previously on the phone, and that you actually have used up all available space.
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