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[Q] System Data taking 2.5 GB on SD Card

Ok, so somehow I did something that caused my SD card to fill up. When I look at DiskUsage, it shows that the system data folder is taking up all of my space.
Has anyone else had this problem, and can you fix it?
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I really need help...

I don't know what you did.... I compared my unit using the same tool and I don't even have a System Data section on my /sdcard
If you have TWRP loaded, you might be able to wipe your data etc... but I have no idea.
Perhaps someone else has an idea

Well, I dont have a system data folder, atleast in my SD card.
I am thinking maybe it is somehow attatched to the SD partition, but...
Anyway, is it normal to have 200,000 + files in your "sys" directory?

The tool you are using doesn't output very clear info and the graphics by themselves don't give you details on what it is really finding...
Below is what mine looks like. This appears to be the same setting you used, but as you can see, there is no System Data listed.

Are there tools that are more presise I can look for?

Ok, so I found a file inside LOST.DIR called 1048578. It is taking up 2.3 GB. Can I delete it safely?

yes you should be able to do that.
You most likely had a crash and the file was lost from where it was actually pointing.

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krelvinaz said:
yes you should be able to do that.
You most likely had a crash and the file was lost from where it was actually pointing.
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its because of three things that regularly happen
1) Because of Browsing the internet System data gets increased.
Try clearing your browser cache and reboot(e.g chrome, mozilla, the one u use the most)
2) Because of opening gallery your /DCIM/.Thumbnails folder gets loaded whit lots of bytes. delete the /DCIM/.Thumbnails folder
3) Also because of transfering files from your pc to your phone one more folder gets loaded.. delete it its the /nomedia/
Plz Hit Thanks............. :good: :good: :laugh:

The same thing also happened to me. Using the Android tool DiskUsage, after deleting many large media files via the PC, all of a sudden a System data of 22 GB was indicated. After I restarted the phone, the size was reduced to 2.3 GB.

BluNitya said:
The same thing also happened to me. Using the Android tool DiskUsage, after deleting many large media files via the PC, all of a sudden a System data of 22 GB was indicated. After I restarted the phone, the size was reduced to 2.3 GB.
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You do realise that this thread is nearly 6 years old...

Contact images gone from text messages

Here's the deal, my contact's images are still on my phone in the contacts list and when making calls. But, they are gone from my text messages. I have wiped cache/dalvik, fixed permissions, cleared data from the app, reflashed my rom. Any body hae any other ideas of what might synch the images back up?

what rom are you using?
and have you tried removing/re adding or changing the contact picture and see if it shows up?

JayDubya09 said:
what rom are you using?
and have you tried removing/re adding or changing the contact picture and see if it shows up?
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I'm on MikG3.11
I haven't done that, most pics are synched from FB and a few are from my gallery but, none are working, its so weird. If I bring up a contact and check our message history from there, everything is right but, if I access the messages from the app drawer or desktop shortcut, no images.
????

try what i suggested, if that dont work i suggest a rom reflash or trying to contact MikG

gonowhere said:
Here's the deal, my contact's images are still on my phone in the contacts list and when making calls. But, they are gone from my text messages. I have wiped cache/dalvik, fixed permissions, cleared data from the app, reflashed my rom. Any body hae any other ideas of what might synch the images back up?
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Mine does that when I fix permissions to fix it go to the file in the pic and select files
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then set the permissions back to the way they are below
That should get them working again.

pennie77 said:
Mine does that when I fix permissions to fix it go to the file in the pic and select files
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then set the permissions back to the way they are below
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That should get them working again.
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That a different approach, will try later, ROM toolbox isn't cooperating right now.

pennie77 said:
Mine does that when I fix permissions to fix it go to the file in the pic and select files
View attachment 1026369
then set the permissions back to the way they are below
View attachment 1026372
That should get them working again.
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I can confirm that this worked with me on ICS.
Just dont know how to:
1. I can select them all
2. But when I press permissions by long press on the list it just changed the permissions for only the file which was just under my finger. Not to all of them.
So I had to do them one by one...
If anybody can instruct me how to change the permission for the whole selections I would be grateful.

[Q] Internal storage full almost full...

Hey guys
I've searched around a lot for this but haven't found anything that helps me...Basically recently my phone has been telling me that there is around ~520mb free left on internal storage.
Here's some pics from "Storage" and from the StorageAnnilyser app.
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Everything I have (pictures, etc) is stored on my external SD, so I really don't know what is clogging up my internalSD at this point...
Also, I have made two CWM backups, which are not showing up in either internalSD/Clockworkmod, or on my externalSD/Clockworkmod as I have it set to.
Any ideas where they can be found?
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks guys,
Elliott

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Did you check under TWRP. That would be the place your backup would go to with the newer TWRP recovery.

I'm using CWM.

Use a root explorer and browse to /data/Lost+found if it's packed, delete everything

Empty but thanks...any other ideas?
Sent from my Galaxy S3

Could try Diskusage from play store. It gives a little bit more info of what files are taking up space. Can be set to scan Internal/SD and if you have root, even the main directory. (personally never used the root scan) It reminds me of a pc app called Windirstat. It will even allow you to delete files straight from the app.

I actually just ran into this same problem myself last week. In your storage analyser app (the same one i use btw) change the path its looking at to the /data partition (the pie chart button). If it is as i suspect your lost+found folder is probably brimming with junk file fragments. This folder is protected even beyond normal root elevations and doesn't show the files contained within. I was able to use File Manager! from the play store, change the permissions on the folder and delete some of the junk but there were still some that it couldn't delete for some reason. I deleted the contents of the folder using the file manager in TWRP which supersedes the permissions on the folder, in CWM you can probably do the same with the AROMA file manager http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952862. Its probably worth mentioning im using an AOSP based ROM and the permissions may be different in TW.

Thanks guys.
Disk usage worked great for me in ways that storage analyser never did.
I found my CWM backups in the root directory of my phone (not even in internal storage). I moved/deleted a bunch of them and problem solved...
Don't know why the backups are saved there but whatever...going to be saving to external storage from now on (where I thought they were being saved originally)
Elliott
Sent from my Galaxy S3

[Q] Strange Storage Problems

Yo guys, I've got a situation here.
So I was using the tablet of my mum, and when I tried to install a navigation app for her, it said that I don't have enough space left. Well I checked and found that:
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can any of you guys tell why the heck gallery takes up 8,37 gb?! my mum never ever does any photos with this tablet...

Not sure exactly why it's that big but did you look into the "App info" screen & try to clear data?
I've kinda experienced this on another device but nowhere near that much was being used, turned out it was a temp thumbnail cache file, it just grew bigger & bigger, over 1GB at one time, still have to keep clearing/deleting it every so often.

Gilly10 said:
Not sure exactly why it's that big but did you look into the "App info" screen & try to clear data?
I've kinda experienced this on another device but nowhere near that much was being used, turned out it was a temp thumbnail cache file, it just grew bigger & bigger, over 1GB at one time, still have to keep clearing/deleting it every so often.
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Tried it, nothing changed

devil188 said:
Tried it, nothing changed
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provided you have root and custom recovery AND your rom is de-odexed
pull the gallery.apk from system and store it on your sdcard, then delete the original.
then go jnto dcim/.thumbnails and clear it. then goto app settings and clear data.
then reboot to recovery and wipe caches. then reboot. then drop gallery apk back into
system, the reset permissions on gallery.apk to 644 then reboot.
now recheck.
m

moonbutt74 said:
provided you have root and custom recovery AND your rom is de-odexed
pull the gallery.apk from system and store it on your sdcard, then delete the original.
then go jnto dcim/.thumbnails and clear it. then goto app settings and clear data.
then reboot to recovery and wipe caches. then reboot. then drop gallery apk back into
system, the reset permissions on gallery.apk to 644 then reboot.
now recheck.
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K the problem is that this tablet is not mine, it's from my mum, and she doesn't want to root /unlock it because it still got warrenty
with root, i wouldn't be a great problem for me to reset that

I have faced this problem multiple times, this is how i resolved it.
There are two .thumbnails folders
1.) Sdcard
2.) dcim\.thumbnails
Enable hidden files in My Files or ex explorer settings and delete these directories
And using es explorer create a file .thumbnails where the directory used to be
This will ensure that the .thumbnails directory is never created as there is already a file with the same name there.
The dcim/.thumnails is for the gallery
The sdcard/.thumbnails is for the video player
Note: in kitkat use Mx player as the stock video player seems to crash if you create a file at sdcard/.thumbnails

Delete photos downloaded in data/user/0/com.android.providers.downloads/

Dear friends,
I have encountered an uncommon bug. Actually unsure whether it's a bug or not. Namely, when I download certain photos from the Google app on my OnePlus 5T, they do not get downloaded to local storage like other photos, but to the path written above. Furthermore, I am unable to delete these photos, unlike all other photos, and they can only be accessed through the Downloads app. The gallery does not list them. Has anyone encountered this error before? The images below show you my problem.
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Use FX file explorer or something, just enable show hidden files if you dont see them.

Adnan008 said:
Use FX file explorer or something, just enable show hidden files if you dont see them.
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Says I do not have access.

supaqoq said:
Says I do not have access.
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im sorry, i just checked and you cant acces that direction without root, so its not a bug because where you download photos from that app, its private to that app only location (unless to system apps or root with root-access apps) and you should be able to delete those with Downloads app, as far i can see from that photo, its cache photo so if you are not able to delete that photo (you should able to do that) then you should try to clear Downloads app's clear data from apps manager (you Can lose your downloaded data if they are not in normal Download folder or somewhere else in storage where all apps can access them)

Adnan008 said:
im sorry, i just checked and you cant acces that direction without root, so its not a bug because where you download photos from that app, its private to that app only location (unless to system apps or root with root-access apps) and you should be able to delete those with Downloads app, as far i can see from that photo, its cache photo so if you are not able to delete that photo (you should able to do that) then you should try to clear Downloads app's clear data from apps manager (you Can lose your downloaded data if they are not in normal Download folder or somewhere else in storage where all apps can access them)
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So the question is: Why are photos downloaded from Google downloaded there.

Are you sure that is the only copy? Because that file in cache folder, for example open fx Explorer enable hidden files go to dcim/.thumbnails you will see a lot of low res photos, including deletes ones