Sync problem and unusual amount of "Other" in memory usage
I have an iPod touch with 8.1.2 installed.
I will begin by the sync problems I was experiencing two days ago. First, some songs I tried to manually add were greyed out in the list. Then the sync got stuck at "Waiting for chagnes to apply". Then, all the songs in the iPod seemingly got corrupted. After some restores, the memory usage bar showed DOUBLE the amount of memory used, and half of that was "Other". 48 GB of "Other".
After restoring a copy from the day before, and then installing 8.1.2 (I had 8.1.1) the iPod seemed to sync right. Then, I noticed two things. First, many songs and albums didn't had the artwork. Second, many songs were missing. (I should say that I manually manage the music in my iPod). Today, I started manually adding songs and albums. After syncing many album covers were still missing. Then, after adding some abums, almost 10GB of "Other" appeared on the usage bar.
I would like to know how to solve this issue.
Restore the iPod since you have to remove the corruption and also:
stuck on waiting for changes to be applied
Waiting for changes to be applied solution
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