What is "Other" in my capacity bar?

Hi All,
So, I'm loading UP and Star Trek (hi-def) and 4.11 GBs are showing up as "other" - can anyone tell me what that is... I only have 40 gigs (minus the obvious system OS.) Can anyone elucidate what those 4 GB's are...? I do have itunes extras clicked... can that be it... that kind of *****; I paid a hefty sum for those movies and would like the extras.
Thanks,
Jon

The "other" after updating to 3.0.1. in my case was close to 30GB, which disappeared after reset. After updating to 3.0.1. I am having trouble with iTunes sync. After another restart I have now 1 movie 1,7GB + other 2,27GB...
TV is not recognizing handbrake formats which were playing fine before reset.
I am also wondering if the "other" is be related to iTunes "LP" and "movie extras" -features???
I do not have any such purchases, though.
I guess I'll wait for another update for TV to solve the problem in civilized matter instead of spending free evenings banging my head against the wall.
Mikko

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Do a sync just before you restore. This will sync contacts and calendar to the applications you have chosen and will back up everything else. After the restore you will be given the option to reload the backup on the phone. So you should not lose anything unless you don't currently sync calendar and contacts to the desktop.

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A ' Large Other ' usually indicates Corrupt Data...
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Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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Hi All,
I have been facing the same issue and found a solution that does not require a full restore!
Its seems to be related with the music synchronization mechanism
Here is a link to a very usefull documentation that describe what I did to resolve my issue!
http://www.ipodrepublic.com/iphone/fixing-issue-other-files-iphone-memory/2010/0 3/31/
Hope this help.

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My trash is empty.
Hope someone can shed some light on this for me.
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For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown asBackups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Reboot and it should go away.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
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Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size with the largest at the top. It may take a few minutes for ODS to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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 Cheers, Tom

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread/3418045?tstart=180

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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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 Cheers, Tom

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Hey! I was wondering why I have almost 9GB of "Other" in the capacity bar. How do I get rid of it?

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you can restore your phone from backup, if that doesn't work you may need to restore as new and manually add your stuff back.

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i had a resolve to this same issue not long ago, however, didn't see the exact resolve steps...to rid of the 'other' in the capacity bar when iphone is connected, do you click restore? if so, does it back up all of the pictures on the camera that have been taken including video?

The "other" section is kind of dynamic and weird I have noticed. I recently updated to iTunes7 and then synced my 80GB iPod to it putting the whole library on it, a BUNCH of photos, a few videos and that is about it. When done it listed about 1GB of other, which wasn't real, since I don't have artwork or anything in disk mode.
But then after playing it for a day or two and resyncing it a few times, the other has now dropped to a couple hundred megabytes. So perhaps a lot of cache and temp files get stashed here during normal use and many of us notice is the FIRST time we sync a huge amount of data to the iPod because a HUGE amount of cache and temp files are written which then later shrink.
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