I saw that I've got only about 1 gigabyte free on my SD card. I don't have that much music or other media files on it, but there are a lot of folders that are taking up space like .android_secure and Android. My question is what folders/files can I delete that won't affect my root?
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the first thing i do is delete unused crap..u can always recreate it
If you're using rom manager, there is ALOT of caching within that app that is stored on your sd card. Delete some of the sub folders and you'll find some space. I freed up 3 gigs the other day. I was amazed!
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Nothing on the sdcard has an effect on your root, there is a backup file you'll want to keep though (should know about it from reading the instructions on rooting). All the other folders are created by either you or the apps you have. Delete them if you want but the next time the app runs it will just recreate the folder. Mostly they're used for caching info but some have wallpapers, ringtones, pictures, and so on. Hell, 3D Gallery creates a massive amount of cache images - every picture you ever view on your phone actually.
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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.
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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.
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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
Does anyone know how to stop this file, located in dcim/thumbnails, from existing? Just keeps getting bigger and eating up my SD card!!!
LT15i ICS with root
Those are the thumbnails from the gallery, and for every picture or video you take or add to your phone, a thumbnail will be generated.
I don't think there's a way to disable them, if you could you wouldn't see any thumbnails in your gallery. Doesn't seem handy to me
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Sorry, misunderstood you..
I guess the thumbdata is still a part of the gallery, seems like a database to me, so the gallery knows where it can find its thumbnails
Thing is, I transfer my photos off regularly and then delete them off phone yet when I delete thumb data, it comes back at me! Currently stands at around 500mb....
LT15i ICS with root
500 mb is alot
I have two thumbdata files, both 55 mb and i have alot of photos on the device.
Do you have pictures elsewhere on your sd card, like album pictures, or pictures from a game, that might be the culprit?
Will check it out....
LT15i ICS with root
Have the same problem. It just doesn't make sense, the .thumbdata file sizes are lot bigger than the media themselves.
I've tried to disable write permissions with root browser (I've read that trick herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318827), it does stop the two thumbdata files for getting bigger. Their sizes actually never changed. But unfortunately, it messed up my gallery preview.
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it's a common issue with ICS, i have S2 and my thumbdata is over 1GB
yes, we know
boyob32 said:
Does anyone know how to stop this file, located in DCIM/thumbnails/, from existing? Just keeps getting bigger and eating up my SD card!
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Just copy that file's name, delete that file (thumbdata--), then create folder named the same as deleted file. Reboot device. No annoying thumbdata3 anymore! And look in folders named LOST.DIR (you can find it in the root directory of your internal memory and your SDcard) - huge temporary files may be left in these folders, so delete these files.
Tested on Toshiba Thrive Tablet (ICS).
... are annoying the heck out of me!
I have 170mb of pictures, and the thumbnails for those pictures takes 1.00GB!!!! How is that possible?!
And if I delete the thumbnails (via SD Maid) it takes FOREVER to view the images in the gallery (obviously the system just re-create the thumbnails, but it takes WAY too long and leaves me with another 1GB of space lost!)
Are there any fixes for this? I was thinking freeze Gallery app with Titanium Backup (or completely uninstall it?) and use a 3rd party gallery like QuickPic to browse images. Would that work?
And assuming I do use the "freeze" function, do I need to freeze anything else besides the Gallery app to stop Android from creating more thumbnails??
Thanks!!
Addendum:
After looking through the folder, each thumbnail is indeed very small (8-35kb each). However, there are two files:
1) /storage/emulated/legacy/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3-1763508120 (509.59 MB)
2) /storage/emulated/legacy/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3--1967290299 (509.94 MB)
I have also noticed that in the .thumbnails directory there are two thumbnails for each picture I have on my phone. I believe there are duplicates of everything because I initially had all my pictures on my internal SD card, and when I moved them all to my external SD card to free up some space, the phone re-created the thumbnails (so the 1st set of thumbnails were the original thumbnails, and the 2nd set was created when I moved photos from internal SD to external SD).
Anyways... I would prefer not to even deal with thumbnails taking up this much space. Any recommendations on either reducing the amount of space the thumbnail files take, or if I should just eliminate the entire gallery/thumbnail setup completely and go with a 3rd party app that hopefully won't do this so inefficiently?
What are these two files? Can I delete them / move them?
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Bump!
So the thumbnail file seems to always be 500mb or so. What an unnecessary waste... anyone else bothered enough by this to find a solution?
Thanks
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Today I got a message telling me that my fire tv storage was almost full and if I wanted to delete some apps. Deleting apps didn't put a dent in the space being used so I went into my xbmc folder to find out what was taking up all the space. I noticed there is 1.72gb of mp3 files in my .xbmc/temp folder. Why is it using so much temp space for mp3s? Is there a way to fix this so I wont have to constantly delete the mp3s? I created an advanced settings file to move thumbnails to external drive so thumbs aren't an issue. I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes to xbmc although I have had it installed on my pc for while but with tb's of space on the pc I never had to worry about how much space xbmc is using.
mad212 said:
Today I got a message telling me that my fire tv storage was almost full and if I wanted to delete some apps. Deleting apps didn't put a dent in the space being used so I went into my xbmc folder to find out what was taking up all the space. I noticed there is 1.72gb of mp3 files in my .xbmc/temp folder. Why is it using so much temp space for mp3s? Is there a way to fix this so I wont have to constantly delete the mp3s? I created an advanced settings file to move thumbnails to external drive so thumbs aren't an issue. I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes to xbmc although I have had it installed on my pc for while but with tb's of space on the pc I never had to worry about how much space xbmc is using.
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Install the maintenance tool addon then open it, select general maintenance, and clear cache. reboot and you should be good.
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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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!
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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..