[Mher6]

In iTunes, it shows that 12.84GB of my ipod's space is taken up by "other" files. I have no movies, videos, pictures, etc. on the ipod, just ALAC files. What is taking up all this extra space?

 

[krmathis]

Hard to say.
I suggest you access you iPod directly in Finder or Explorer (depending if you run Mac OS X or MS Windows), and peak around the folders in there. It might be artwork, iTunesDB or iTunesControl, even if 12GB sound way to high...

Perhaps you have not emptied your Trash?

 

[thelast]

This happened to my ipod too. It showed that 16gb were being occupied by "Other". I just restored it and it has been fine since. It was because I was using itunes to load videos and jriver media center for music. Everytime I synced my ipod with jrivermedia half of the videos would disappear and the "Other" space would get larger and larger when i added more videos and then synced music.

 

[Mher6]

Interesting...I reconnected my iPod to troubleshoot the problem and the "other" is now taking up 300mb. Weird O.o

 

[scompton]

I've had my iPods do this for 2 reasons.

• Didn't eject the iPod before unplugging it, or didn't wait for it to stop saying don't unplug.
• On my first iPod, this started happening when the hard drive was dying.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by Mher6 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Interesting...I reconnected my iPod to troubleshoot the problem and the "other" is now taking up 300mb. Weird O.o

Strange for sure.
But at least those "other" files no longer occupy 12BG on you iPod. Or so it seems...

 

[scompton]

When I had it happen because I unplugged my iPod without ejecting, all I had to do to recover is replug it in. My guess is that it hadn't completely updated the DB so it didn't realize that all that space was music. Your situation sounds very similar.

 

[Mher6]

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Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif When I had it happen because I unplugged my iPod without ejecting, all I had to do to recover is replug it in. My guess is that it hadn't completely updated the DB so it didn't realize that all that space was music. Your situation sounds very similar.

This is exactly what happened when I think about it. My system crashed when my ipod was connected and therefore wasn't ejected properly.