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Change default folders to storage card

Is there a way to make all the programs save their data, temp or otherwise, on the storage card by default. I think there was something in the registry I read before, but I cannot seem to find the post. Mainly looking for opera, pics and videos and things like that. Also, can program space be extended to the card?

Emptying the trash - a little advice please

Hi,
Sorry if this has been asked before.
I reently removed a number of old apps etc from my device to free up some space etc.
I've now noticed that the storage memory numbers have gone through the roof, sitting at 214.84mb used, 58.78 free. It was much lower before.
Does this thing have a recycle bin like Windows that needs emptying? And if so, how?
Thanks guys
Mike.

Nope, there is no Recycle Bin or Trash Can in WM. Did you use the "Remove Programs" option in Settings>System to remove the apps?
Have you soft reset after removing the apps?

trash
Hi
Thanks for the quick reply.
Yes I did use the remove programs function to remove them. It seems to have grown after doing that.
I don't have that many programs on the device, but don't understand why the storage space is so small. I keep all my music/videos/pictures etc on the storage card.
Is it possible to check for email attachements etc?
Thanks
Mike

I would do a soft reset first, it's likely that WinMo isn't calculating your free storage space correctly. If that doesn't work, you can also search for large files and possibly find the reason why there is so much memory being used.
There is a program called "Search" in WinMo. Change the "Type" to "Larger than 64 KB" and leave the "Search for:" field blank. This will pull up every single file on your phone (and storage card) that is larger than 64KB in size.
You could also try some cleaning tools like SKTools or MemMaid to find the pesky files. Don't forget to clear up your Internet browsing history too.
Hope this helps!

You can try Treesize mobile, this will let you see all files and the amount of memory they take up.
Another program is memmaid to clean up after uninstallations.

Thanks guys. I didn't even think about ie history! That cleared up loads.
I had a look at the file search but it did't find anything remarkable, except maybe that when you set an mp3 as a ringtone it moves it to the main memory aswell, rather than just using the copy on the storage card.
Lots of GPS trackings also got cleaned out!
I'll track down this memmaid program and give it a whirl. I was also a bit harsher on clearing old programs out and that's helped too. And email attachements.
Up to 111mb storage free and 88mb program free. I can feel the weight difference already!
Thanks again!

dinny66 said:
Thanks guys. I didn't even think about ie history! That cleared up loads.
I had a look at the file search but it did't find anything remarkable, except maybe that when you set an mp3 as a ringtone it moves it to the main memory aswell, rather than just using the copy on the storage card.
Lots of GPS trackings also got cleaned out!
I'll track down this memmaid program and give it a whirl. I was also a bit harsher on clearing old programs out and that's helped too. And email attachements.
Up to 111mb storage free and 88mb program free. I can feel the weight difference already!
Thanks again!
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You can save your email attachemets to the memory card, it's in tools-options-storage

Deleting temporary files from internal memory

Hi.
i'm wondering if there are a temp folder somewhere on the internal memory where programs are being stored even tho they have been installed.
the reason is that last week, i had 40 something mb free, moved everything to sd, so problem solved.
Today i have 19mb free, i have installed some new apps, but they are installed on the sd card, so i can't figure out where the 20mb went.
I am figuring that it's probably the apk's i've downloaded which are left somewhere.
How would i go about figuring out where the 20mb went?

The cache of some applications is probably taking the space.
Go to settings, Applications, manage applications and look in apps.
Inside each app, Cache button is present.
Or, install from market
http://www.appbrain.com/app/app-2-sd-free-(move-app-to-sd)/com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
the new version can clean cache of the applications, if you start app2sd.
t.

Yes, i've seen that mentioned somewhere else, the thing i'm wondering about, is that the 3 games i have added to the collection over a week, should that make a 20mb difference on the internal memory?
I've installed app 2 sd, and it's reporting that i've got 1.6mb cache used by apps, so not much going on here.
On the phone tap, it'll let me move maps, facebook and voice control to sd card, that's cool.
In the phone only tap, i can see those apps, which cannot be moved, i got 7 apps.
flash 11.2mb,
space invadars 4.6mb,
marked,
launcherpro 3.5mb,
beautiful widgets 1.8mb,
3g watchdog 688kb and setcpu 432kb.
On the bottum it says total 147.62mb, 21mb free.
21mb free, and i've only got those 7 apps installed on internal memory.
does that look correct to you, because to me it looks like there should be more available.

Hi,
I have more apps on "phone only", and even some under "on phone" and still 41 mb free.
And what about mail attachments and cache.
Go to mail, then settings, and see if you keep the data on internal or external storage. Check the same within the web browser.
And see if you have deleted already deleted mails from trash folder.
I can't help more.
T.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I'm having the same problem, and like you can't find a solution .... yet.
I'm at 12mb free with everything possible moved to SD card.
I installed an app from the market yesterday then uninstalled it, but never recoverd all my memory, so I think, lke you there's something being left behind in a temp folder somewhere.
I'll keep you posted if I find a solution.

Bump.
As of right now i've got 8 apps installed on internal memory.
i've got 13.85mb left.
on sd i've got 39 apps, and 2.93gb left.
still no solution to where all the storage went?

the thing is that sometimes when u install then uninstall an app u don't recover the whole space, this issue has been discussed many times before,and basicly there is no temp folder from which u could delete unneeded files.the only way to recover that memory would be a factory reset

[Q] SD Card shares the same disk with os

Hello everyone..
So I while managing pictures on my SD card, I noticed something that is making dumping/importing pictures to my PC, a nightmare.
I think I have a solution, but the app (MoveToSdcard), is giving the following message: "SD Card shares the same disk with os"
Looking at some of the file/folder structure, I think I know what's happening, but I don't know how to fix without breaking stuff.
What I'm trying to do is move all apps that will every have pictures associated with them, to the SDCard. This will allow me to export (and worry) only pictures from the SDCard and delete them like I normally would with my iPhone.
Anyone know of a way to resolve this or have a suggestion on how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Why do I want to dump my pictures? I put them on a NAS, back them up to various cloud services. I also place my none mobile photo work on this NAS an upload them as well.

droidmyworld said:
Hello everyone..
So I while managing pictures on my SD card, I noticed something that is making dumping/importing pictures to my PC, a nightmare.
I think I have a solution, but the app (MoveToSdcard), is giving the following message: "SD Card shares the same disk with os"
Looking at some of the file/folder structure, I think I know what's happening, but I don't know how to fix without breaking stuff.
What I'm trying to do is move all apps that will every have pictures associated with them, to the SDCard. This will allow me to export (and worry) only pictures from the SDCard and delete them like I normally would with my iPhone.
Anyone know of a way to resolve this or have a suggestion on how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Why do I want to dump my pictures? I put them on a NAS, back them up to various cloud services. I also place my none mobile photo work on this NAS an upload them as well.
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I'm having a hard time understanding specifically what you are trying to do. But if the end goal is back up pictures to your NAS then I suggest downloading "Sweet Home! Alfa". It will allow you to select which albums to backup and automatically do it for you based on preference (for example, I have mine setup to do it when I'm connected to my home network and plug my phone in to charge".
You can set it to automatically delete photos off you device once backed up too if you want. Managing albums can be done through the stock gallery app or through a file explorer.
Hope this helps.
BTW, /sdcard actually refers to internal storage. So if you are trying to move apps to /sdcard, that it why you are getting the error. You are telling it to move an app from internal storage to internal storage which doesn't make sense to the app

Hi Artimis! Yea. I'm sorry about how I laid out the thread. Not clear at all. Basically, there are pictures everywhere
I use several apps - Instagram, Photoshop, SquareDroid, Afterfocus, Lapse It, Viva Video, etc. Each one of these apps either place the completed edits/export in their own folder, located in the app's directory, respectively.
When I pull out the SDCard and put it into my machine to dump/export them, not all the pictures are there, because some of the pictures are in their respective app exported folders and those are on the Internal SD.
This now forces me to hunt around and hope I've located all the possible directories and pictures.
If Instead relocate the apps to the SD card, the export folders would also be there, making it one less and easy step to ensure that all possible pictures/directories are accounted for.
Make any sense? Sorry about that.
Now the app you recommended takes it to a whole other level! This is awesome! and it detects new photo directories, created anywhere on the phone or SD card! This more or less solves my whole problem! WOW! Thank you!
As for the whole SD thing, I'm confused. Not a big deal though since all pictures and videos (all big in size) taken using XCam end up on the true SDCard. All the other pictures scattered about are not large in size and I'm not concerned about it. It's just a pain to hunt them down and dump/export them.
This app you suggested though is perfect and solves my problem, and then some!
Thanks Artimis!

wouldn't it be easier to just use Dropbox's import feature or even their auto saving of pictures? Of course letting G+ save them is also a more practical solution, I use both, and would be less time consuming

Yes, I use them as well. They work well. The goal is not to move away from any of them either. The goal is to save them locally to my NAS and at the same time, recover the space back on the device/SDCard.
The program that Artimis recommended takes care of all these issues.
I'm good! Thanks!

Same/Similar Problem
Whenever I try to install apps on to my SD card it says "SDcard share the same disk with os" and won't let me transfer apps.

Tyfighter98 said:
Whenever I try to install apps on to my SD card it says "SDcard share the same disk with os" and won't let me transfer apps.
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Does your phone actually have an sdcard in it (it would show up as something like /external_SD through the file system). As I mentioned before, /sdcard actually refers to the phones internal storage. It is a symlinked directory that emulates an sdcard but is mapped to /data/media.
So you will get this error with an app trying to move something from /data/app to /sdcard because it is actually trying to move it to /data/media/.. which doesn't do any good.
If you do have an actual external sdcard (/external_SD) then the problem could be due to the write protection changes implemented in kit kat. There are threads on how to fix this if you are rooted.

I do I have an SD card in my tablet and I supposedly already did an SD card fix for Kit Kat but I will look into it thanks.

i have micromax canvas juice 2 .... i inserted 16gb sd card but iam not able to move apps to my sd card ..... please help me

So how to make it understand I have to sent it to ad card and read data from there..

Question Obscene amount of storage being used by Media Storage, can't clear.

This seems very abnormal to me. Over 70GB is being used by Media Storage. I am unable to to clear this or manage it in any way, it just seems to be wrecking my storage.
Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix it?

Is it a clean install or you copied files from previous phone ?
It could be you're recent deleted files in gallery app at the bottom maybe try to "clean"
You can install Google Files Go from the playstore to easily manage you're storage

BlissKane said:
Is it a clean install or you copied files from previous phone ?
It could be you're recent deleted files in gallery app at the bottom maybe try to "clean"
You can install Google Files Go from the playstore to easily manage you're storage
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I used the OnePlus tool to transfer from a previous phone.
None of this stuff is even visible in Google Files Go. Is there no way to clear this app data?

It looks correct to me. It does say User Data, which means your data installed. Apps, games photos and videos.

Its showing 25gb for me. Photos and videos are getting counted separately. This is confusing. Why media storage is having that much amount.

schmeggy929 said:
It looks correct to me. It does say User Data, which means your data installed. Apps, games photos and videos.
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It appears to be in addition to all those though. See screens.

Frogacuda said:
It appears to be in addition to all those though. See screens.
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Im no Math genius. in the first screenshot all that storage equals to 193Gb. Media storage is considered either part of photos & videos or Other apps. In the second screenshot it looks Media Storage is part of user apps. User data maybe for system apps not listed???

I have the same problem, it's like everything that is in sdcard/ is counted in the media storage size. You can see in the screenshots that the size of media storage is the sum of pictures and file categories but in this way it is counted twice because media storage is also in "other apps" category.

Frogacuda said:
It appears to be in addition to all those though. See screens.
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If it's under photos and videos, do you use any streaming apps like Netflix, etc? Maybe clear the cache in those?

My Media Storage file is around 5 GB but i don't know why my System Files take 19GB while the screenshots i've seen here are around 1GB-2GB

schmeggy929 said:
It looks correct to me. It does say User Data, which means your data installed. Apps, games photos and videos.
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I was thinking the same.