Ipod Capacity "Other"

Jay Dee

My Ipod 60gb Video, is showing 11gb in the other section, but there is nothing installed, no video or anything. Can I delete this section and if so how???

aidan_walsh

Have you been using the iPod in Disk Mode as an external hard disk?

Jay Dee

No, but I did a complete reset and wiped everything.

aidan_walsh

You mean you did a restore in iTunes?

Jay Dee

Yes.

TheBazman

I thought "other" was just contacts - although 11mb is a lot of contacts

Jay Dee

I have no contacts or video or anything else loaded.
I hay have mis loaded some files though.
I think I added music files direct to "my Ipod" rather than Itunes and they registered as "other".
All listings show nothing except Music.

witnessmenow

open my computer, click on your ipod, other than a hidden folder(by default you cant see it,but if you can it'll look more transparent than your other folders) there should be no music files on it. thats what making your others section show 11gb

Jay Dee

Thanks,
I have removed the music files and the "other" space has gone down to 5.69gb.
When I now check my ipod through My Computer, I get the following list of files.

.rockbox
Calendars
Contacts
ipc-logs
Notes
Photos
Playlists
recordings
battery bench
pic6

Which ones are needed and which are not ???

witnessmenow

Where did you get the ipod? That rockbox is a custom firmware for ipods, you recently restored it with itunes right? If you did you no longer need that.

On my 60gb video ipod i have the following folders that match yours:

Calendars
Contacts.
Notes
Photos

So you should be able to get rid of the rest of them. I also have hidden folders and icons, and what ever you do not delete them if you can see them! There the shaded out files and folders i mentioned earlier if you can see them, but you probably cant

Jay Dee

witnessmenow, Thanks for the info.
Did as you suggested and I'm now back to normal in others.
Great stuff.

Cheers,

Jay

witnessmenow

No problem, glad to help