iPhone experts, need some help, apps / games missing after sync
Here is the list of activities i did, for the problem to occur.
1. I downloaded couple of games through Installous and they installed fine and worked fine too.
2. Now in the morning, i had downloaded few games from iTunes on my laptop (without connecting the iPhone). I am guessing those apps must have got stored on my computer somewhere.
3. I wanted to get those games on my iPhone so i realized that i should sync the phone, right ??
4. So as soon as i connect my phone, it tells me that it has found purchases on my iPhone (that are not in iTunes) and tells me to add them to the iTunes library.
5. I click Ok and come copying and all starts.
6. Now i go to my iPhone under iTunes and then go to APPS tab and it did not have the tick on "Sync Apps". I ticked this and then ticked everything below that (few apps did not have a tick besides them) this and clicked APPLY and then SYNC. Now i think that at this point it did tell me that all apps on my iPhone will be synced with ones in my iTunes library which possibly means that anything that is not in iPhone will be erased (???). I suppose it is not doing a two way sync, just does a itunes library to iPhone sync.
7. After this when i checked, the icons on the phone had jumbled up and the number of pages too increased and the icons got scattered over 6-7 pages when before that only 4 pages were there. Also those games that i installed from Installous are all gone now. I do not see any of them :O
Apart from this , under iTunes where it shows the total capacity as 13.73 GB, it shows 10GB in apps(which i calculated and is correct) but it shows me 1.24GB as OTHER, which i have no clue what it is.
How do i know what this 1.24GB is?? I am not able to find any trace of that 1.24 GB.
Also how do i ensure that next time when i sync, those apps which got installed through Installous, are not erased like this.
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I read on the net regarding reclaiming the space used by OTHER and one last resort it is mentioned that one has to RESTORE the iPhone. This is something i am very scared of doing as i have never done this and i am not sure what happens in restore and will i loose the jailbreak and also the unlock.
Is there any safer way to reclaim the space used by OTHER ??