iPhone 4 Data Storage

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bowjest

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Hello to all,

I recently got myself an iPhone 4 and was wondering if it stores attachments I view when I'm reading my emails (Word docs, pics, etc.) or whether these are just opened in memory and then released when the doc/app is closed.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks,

Bowjest
 
The iPhone has native document-reading capability for several formats (DOC, TXT, RTF, etc.). You can view these attachments from the Mail application on the iPhone. These attachments are stored along with the mail message itself in the Mail application.

If you have a compatible document editing/viewing program, like Goodreader, I believe you have the option of opening compatible attachments in that program. This works on the iPad -- not sure about the iPhone, but I suspect it does.
 
Thanks, Diablo.

I'm using IMAP rather than POP for my mail, so does that mean that the docs (or whatever) are not actually saved on the system? Basically, I just want to know how best to manage this sort of thing and delete items I don't want to keep on the phone.
 
The docs are probably cached on your system, once viewed. Some attachments, if very large, may throw up a warning that the attachment is too large to be viewed on the iPhone. This happened to me on a couple of occasions with iPhone OS 3... I don't know if it still happens with iOS 4, though.
 
You don't know how I can find/access this cache so I can delete things, do you?

Would be very helpful! :)
 
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