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7GB of "program data"

hizzoze

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I apologize if this has been covered, but i did search the forums for an answer first. I got the 16 GB galaxy S3 knowing that:
1: it would not truly be 16 GB, rather about 12GB, and
2: my last phone was 1GB, which I had to root to fit all of my apps (move to sd), so I knew that 16/12 would be plenty.
So here is my question: If about 4 GB of the 16 GB is taken up by the system, which I fully understand, why is there another 7GB being taken up by "program data?" I still have plenty of room for apps at the moment and don't foresee a big issue in the future, unless this mysterious data gets larger and larger. Is this really the S3's program files? If so, what about the allocated 4GB? Or, can I just simply move that 7 GB to my external sd card? I don't want to blindly try it and end up messing up the system.
 
Okay, sorry all, forget that. It gave me the optioin to easily delete it and my wife's did not have it, so I deleted them and everything is fine. It is very strange, however, that they were there in the first place.
 
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