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I am losing gigs on my iPad, what could the problem be?

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losing gigs on my IPad

I just looked at my Ipad today and it says I used up 20gigs of space, but all other days it stated that I used only 10gigs what is happening
Should I bring it to a repair shop for help
Its not even a year old yet
please help
 

eastbayrae

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Re: losing gigs on my IPad

I just looked at my Ipad today and it says I used up 20gigs of space, but all other days it stated that I used only 10gigs what is happening
Should I bring it to a repair shop for help
Its not even a year old yet
please help

Look at what iTunes has it as. I have seen my iDevices have gig's tied up in 'Other'. A re-boot usually gives me these lost gigs back. It has to do with the iPad pre-allocating space when your downloading something.