I was cleaning my sd card by moving my backups from TWRP to my computer. I cut 4 file folders and pasted them into my computer. They seemed to transfer way too quickly. When I opened them, they were all empty. It isn't a big loss, but I'd prefer to have them back. Is there any way to recover them? Any clue why this happened? Only the empty folders transfered and the sd card only contains the backup that I left behind.
Thanks
Reboot your PC and try transferring again. Your computer seems stucked.
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So I have created 2 nandroid backups, and a titanium backup, and now my SD card has no more room on it. I used SwifTP to copy the backups onto my computer. Just to be sure, so I dont F anything up: Is it ok to delete the OLD nandroid backup file? If so, can I do this just by selecting it in Astro, and hitting delete?
Yes, you can delete from Astro if you are 100% certain you are in the right file path, and have the correct file.
You can also delete it from within ROM Manager in the manage/restore backups section - long press what you want to delete, follow prompts.
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A good practice is to every so often copy your SD card contents to your PC so you'll have them, just in case. Maybe every other week or something like that. Why? SD cards do & will fail, and when yours does, you'll have a semi-recent backup of the card.
A full or nearly full SD may make it wonky when you flash a ROM, so maybe consider taking some things off the SD if you can, so the flashing has room to stretch out.
The path is /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-01-....yada yada date and time of backup
Thanks for the advice about the full card, I didnt know that.
What I usually do since I still have the OEM card is just leave one backup in there and save the rest to my PC. I then delete them off the SD card to save room. If I ever need to go back to other backups, I can just pull it off my PC without having them all cluttering up my SD card.
You can use rom manager to delete your unneeded backups also
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What I usually do since I still have the OEM card is just leave one backup in there and save the rest to my PC. I then delete them off the SD card to save room. If I ever need to go back to other backups, I can just pull it off my PC without having them all cluttering up my SD card.
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That's pretty much what I do. Then I looked in my Nandroid folder on my computer... it was 30+ GB! Figured I really only need the last few or so. Im always going through and cleaning out my SD card. Between all the roms and apps, lots of junk can be collected.
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Wow, only 9.25gb here!
+1 for using Rom Manager
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You can use rom manager to delete your unneeded backups also
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This is the safest method, prevents you from accidentally deleting files from wrong directory. Plus, try to name your backups (NO SPACES!), it makes it all easier.
P.S: My Nandroid folder on my PC is 15GB, on my SD is 600MB (OEM 2GB Card)
I tried to put one on the internal storage yesterday and the phone doesn't see it. If I put in an sd card, then the phone sees it. I have tried just the blank file as well as /media/ringtones.
Any ideas?
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When connected to your PC, copy your ringtones to the root of the "Phone" partition. That is where mine are, and they show up fine.
Also, make sure its media/audio/ringtones, not media/ringtones.
oh, it is media/audio/ringtones. I will try to move it to the phone partition
So i was preparing to transfer a rom from my pc to my sd card. I mounted my sd card to the pc like normal. For some unknown reason, I pulled the usb cable out of my phone without unmounting first. I then closed everything out and remounted my sd card to the pc. When I attempted to copy over the rom zip, it was just extremely slow, like 1+ hrs to go slow. I cancelled the operation with some difficulty. When I again remounted my sd card, the pc wanted to run a check and fix on it. Reluctantly, I did it and it finished without finding any errors on the sd card file system. So I tried again with the same results. I can, however, transfer files from the sd card to the pc with no issues. What the heck? Any help would be appreciated.
Copy your SD card to your computer to back it up, and format the SD card FAT32, then copy the contents back to the card.
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That's what I figured. Just wanted to check for options before I did that. Do I need to remove the sd card from the phone, or can I just do it through the mount? It's one thing I haven't had to do before.
If you have a USB card reader that'd be ideal, but if not you can do it when mounted via USB.
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Backup and format complete.
Currently restoring my sd card files. Going VERY slow, just like when I was trying to copy a zip file over originally. Transfer speed started at 1.5 mb/s and has steadily dropped dowm to 176 kb/s (not a mis-type). Now is working it's way back up. Any idea why it would do this? Never had this issue before. Frustrating.
No idea. Maybe try another SD card if you can, maybe try it on another computer to see if that makes a difference...? Are you using the HTC Incredible USB cable or aftermarket?
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It's the htc cable. The transfer rate did go back up to 1.5mb/s eventually. What is odd is that it transfered just fine from the sd card to the pc. Seems like it's working though. Around 2hrs or so for 6.45 gig from pc to sd card. Sound reasonable?
To be honest: I'm not sure if that's good or bad, I'd have to give it a try and let you know.
Yeh, I've always claimed to be only partially retarded. :-D Never actually thought about that option. All is good now. Things seem to be working as planned. Thanks for all the input.
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While its transferring slowly, click the "details" arrow in the transfer window so that you can see what exactly is happening. Transferring a ton of tiny files (i.e. cache) slow the transfer rate down considerably.
This happened to me when Zedge had a cache leak... It transferred slowly when it got to the app's cache folder, the eta climbed up to like a hour for 2 gigs! WTF! After looking at the details i fount that there were thousands of tiny files in Zedge's cache folder that just bogged down everything as the computer recognized each and every one of them. I deleted the folder completely and all was well again.
2+ hours is a long time for 6 gigs via a USB 2.0 wire, it should be like 10-15 minutes.
For some reason my sd card keeps filling up. How can I delte old backups on the card? On my EVO I used to be able to manage backups somehow and delete the ones I did not need.
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For some reason my sd card keeps filling up. How can I delte old backups on the card? On my EVO I used to be able to manage backups somehow and delete the ones I did not need.
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Use the file browser to delete the files
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Browse to the ClockwordMod/Backups folder on your sdcard and delete your old backups.
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So, I've been noticing weirdly-named, zero-byte files on my external sdcard lately. These are appearing in the root of the external card and the /Dropbox folder that contains a couple folders I sync with Dropbox via Dropsync. Most of these files appear to be named "µ". Dozens of them in each directory. Most of them show up with that same name. A few are other unprintable and weird characters.
Any thoughts?
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So, I've been noticing weirdly-named, zero-byte files on my external sdcard lately. These are appearing in the root of the external card and the /Dropbox folder that contains a couple folders I sync with Dropbox via Dropsync. Most of these files appear to be named "µ". Dozens of them in each directory. Most of them show up with that same name. A few are other unprintable and weird characters.
Any thoughts?
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Possible malware? I would backup both sd cards to your PC then format them. After that only put the files back in that you know you need, and the rest will be there if you need them. Remove all those odd files before doing anything though.
You could also try the sd maid app to clean it up.
Someone else posted about this a few weeks ago. I think the extsd was going bad.
The problem was on my 16gb card.
I was trying (again) to get my 32gb/class 10 working with my SGSIII. It still won't work reliably. So, I reformatted the 16gb and copied everything back. We'll see if these files return.
Thanks for the advise.