Vast numbers of undeletable voice memos on iphone?

I have no less than 3388 voice memos, including huge numbers of duplicates and occupying 9.6 Gb, that are visible via iTunes on my iPhone4 but do not appear in iTunes on my mac. There seems to be absolutely no way to delete this pile of useless rubbish. They have nothing to do withrecording voice memos, because I have almost never used this app. There appears to be a serious bug (one of many it seems) in the Apple synchronising software - or something. The really bad thing is that this great lump of putrid apple is occupying nearly half the iPhone memory! How I wish there was a proper built-in explorer/finder app where we could delete rubbish like this - but this does not suit the fascist Apple "we know best, little children" approach to its customers.

Much in the same boat here... Did you ever figure anything out? I have contemplated hooking my IPhone up tp a digital voice recorder, recording each memo, then transferring them to the computer and importing them into my ITunes or Evernote account.

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