Go to the iTunes store and attempt to rent ‘Gone With The Wind’ [HD version]. After a short wait while the wee sprites inside your phone [think : Numbskulls] try and make room for the download you will then be told either there is not enough room on your device, or for your password/thumbprint to authorise said rental – at this point do not authorise rental [unless this post made you realise you desperately want to see the film] check your available space & you should find that it has increased by many gigabytes [I freed up 8GB – which not co-incidentally is the size of the HD version of the film]
Disclaimers – I accept no responsibility if this goes wrong and you end up being charged for the rental.
for more information see here https://twitter.com/james__montague/status/890954320136556546
I got this from the Tim Ferris newsletter email – he tried it too and it worked hence the recommendation
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Lemonhope says
Oh, check your available storage space before you attempt this or you won’t know how much space it freed up
Lemonhope says
https://twitter.com/james__montague/status/890954320136556546
Lemonhope says
Link didn’t work in main post so it’s there ^^^^^^^^
moseleymoles says
I got a gig – so worth doing
dkhbrit says
FYI this should work with any movie that is larger than whatever storage you have available on the phone.
Sounds like a storage space bug that Apple should fix.
Lemonhope says
Yeah it should.
Lemonhope says
To both points
johnw says
Why is this a bug? Surely it’s simply keeping stuff in a cache to speed up other phone operations until it needs the space for something else. If you pretend you want to use the space it will correctly clear out some (or all) of the cache. You then change your mind and, as a result of losing some of the cached data, other things run slightly (possibly imperceptibly) slower. I’d be amazed if there weren’t apps in the store that do this in a far more controlled way, The Android store has loads of them that, for example, allow you to clear out the cache from the last film you watched (that you probably don’t want) but keep the cache from your browser and maps.
Mike_H says
You can do it in Settings on Android phones. Just take a look at Storage/Cached Data and clear it, if you really need the space.
Bearing in mind that clearing it means that anything that relies on it will have to reload it and will thus, as mentioned above, take longer to start or not remember past usage.
My original Android phone, from HTC, did have a bug by which some data that should have been flushed from the cache was not. After a while it would stop downloading emails, loading webpages etc. because there was no storage left and you’d have to go through all the apps and clear the cache for each one manually.
A right pain.
HouseOfLard says
I just tried this and went from 1.6gb to 4.8gb of free space. Cheers Lemonhope!
Blue Boy says
Thanks @lemonhope – that’s just found me 2gb