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[Q] Copy large backup directory to PC

Hi guys,
I am trying to figure out a way to copy clockworkmod directory to my PC, as the backups are taking up too much unncessary space on the phone. The problem is that via MTP Windows Explorer simply hangs and doesn't copy a thing. My guess is that the underlying issue is the huge number of very small files in the /blob sub-directory.
Could anyone guide me how to accomplish this task, please? Or, alternatively, what other methods of backing straight to the PC are there?
Much obliged!

zkvvoob said:
Hi guys,
I am trying to figure out a way to copy clockworkmod directory to my PC, as the backups are taking up too much unncessary space on the phone. The problem is that via MTP Windows Explorer simply hangs and doesn't copy a thing. My guess is that the underlying issue is the huge number of very small files in the /blob sub-directory.
Could anyone guide me how to accomplish this task, please?
Much obliged!
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MTP sucks. I prefer to use adb for this: adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod D:\your\path\here
If you don't want to use the commandline, you can alternatively use an app like ES File Explorer to access a LAN share (shared folder/drive on your computer) and copy files this way.

adb pull?
Any time I transfer anything large it's what I use.
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/ /Backup/
I believe that's the directory.
Just rename the "clockworkmod" folder to whatever it truly is if not.
This will put a "Backup" folder on your C:\ drive.
Edit:
Ninja'd.

Thank you very much, guys! I hadn't realised that adb pull could be used for copying a whole directory.

Reverse of this
Can anyone tell me how to reverse this using adb (i.e. move the directory back onto the phone)? Thanks.

grouseuk said:
Can anyone tell me how to reverse this using adb (i.e. move the directory back onto the phone)? Thanks.
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[GUIDE] How-to copy files from/to your device
from Petrovski's sig

Thanks for the help with ADB pull. I knew about the push command, but being the noob I am I would never have thought that the opposite was that simple.
Now I have a GNex and I'm almost out of internal memory. I've copied my entire clockworkmod folder to my PC. I was wondering if I could delete the contents of the clockworkmod folder off of my phone (since it's all on the PC) to regain some storage space, and then only return the deleted contents to the phone when I need to do a nandroid restore without any problems occurring. I wouldn't want to go do all that only to arrive upon a large problem when I try to go back to stock JB JRO03C or anything like that.

kbolt said:
Thanks for the help with ADB pull. I knew about the push command, but being the noob I am I would never have thought that the opposite was that simple.
Now I have a GNex and I'm almost out of internal memory. I've copied my entire clockworkmod folder to my PC. I was wondering if I could delete the contents of the clockworkmod folder off of my phone (since it's all on the PC) to regain some storage space, and then only return the deleted contents to the phone when I need to do a nandroid restore without any problems occurring. I wouldn't want to go do all that only to arrive upon a large problem when I try to go back to stock JB JRO03C or anything like that.
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I want to know this exact answer as well.

if you dont rename the folders, you wont have a problem.

I've found that the GNex toolkit makes it pretty easy to make backups, move them to your PC and restore plus a whole lot more. It's pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310

+1 for adb

Large File Tip
THANK YOU!!
Jubakuba said:
adb pull?
Any time I transfer anything large it's what I use.
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/ /Backup/
I believe that's the directory.
Just rename the "clockworkmod" folder to whatever it truly is if not.
This will put a "Backup" folder on your C:\ drive.
Edit:
Ninja'd.
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Unable to see clockworkmod folder through file explorer
HI All,
Am not able to see the clockworkmod folder through File Explorer. Whereas after i take a backup through recovery, i can see the backup exists in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
Please help.

Hi All,
Can anyone help with the above issue?

Use adb pull or an ftp server running on your device.
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[Q] HOSED SDCard?

Can anybody tell me why I might be able to see folders when I go through a file explorer on my phone, but when I connect to it with my PC I don't see those folders?
Ex. I flashed a 4.2 ROM and it hosed my SDCard I believe. Lost ability to view files, backed up things to Titanium and didn't see anything when I did that but could see it when I looked through a file explorer on my phone.
Wiped my phone and set back to factory. Reflashed, transferred backedup files back to phone, same issue for some.
Did my appbackup using AppBackUp on my phone and changed the folder name, but that folder will not show when connected to my PC, but again when I look using a file explorer it shows just fine.
One other things I was getting was a "local folder" with the date 12/31/69 when viewing my SDCard on my PC. Nothing in it, but never showed before and had a windows drive logo next to it.
ANY IDEAS!?!?!?!

mrbigdrawsz said:
Can anybody tell me why I might be able to see folders when I go through a file explorer on my phone, but when I connect to it with my PC I don't see those folders?
Ex. I flashed a 4.2 ROM and it hosed my SDCard I believe. Lost ability to view files, backed up things to Titanium and didn't see anything when I did that but could see it when I looked through a file explorer on my phone.
Wiped my phone and set back to factory. Reflashed, transferred backedup files back to phone, same issue for some.
Did my appbackup using AppBackUp on my phone and changed the folder name, but that folder will not show when connected to my PC, but again when I look using a file explorer it shows just fine.
One other things I was getting was a "local folder" with the date 12/31/69 when viewing my SDCard on my PC. Nothing in it, but never showed before and had a windows drive logo next to it.
ANY IDEAS!?!?!?!
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look in /data/media/0
really, you should read the forums, you cant miss all the threads about fs changes in 4.2.

simms22 said:
look in /data/media/0
really, you should read the forums, you cant miss all the threads about fs changes in 4.2.
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I do read them and have. Finding the files that were moved wasn't the issue...it's new stuff I was installing or changes I made weren't showing. So basically when I looked at them through Solid Explorer they were there, but when I looked on my PC through USB connection they wouldn't show. BUT, I think I figured it out.

mrbigdrawsz said:
I do read them and have. Finding the files that were moved wasn't the issue...it's new stuff I was installing or changes I made weren't showing. So basically when I looked at them through Solid Explorer they were there, but when I looked on my PC through USB connection they wouldn't show. BUT, I think I figured it out.
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as in root fs? those wouldnt show up through usb connection.

simms22 said:
look in /data/media/0
really, you should read the forums, you cant miss all the threads about fs changes in 4.2.
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simms22 said:
as in root fs? those wouldnt show up through usb connection.
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Naw, not root...just simply sdcard folders. But what I did was uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the Nexus and reboot both devices and it seems to be working fine now. Gotta do some other test to see, but if it's still acting funny I might be back. LOL
Thanks for the help.

mrbigdrawsz said:
Naw, not root...just simply sdcard folders. But what I did was uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the Nexus and reboot both devices and it seems to be working fine now. Gotta do some other test to see, but if it's still acting funny I might be back. LOL
Thanks for the help.
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good luck

Need help recovering my files

Okay, so I updated my GSM Galaxy Nexus to the newest nightly of CyanogenMod and it ****ed things up royally, and I neglected to make a backup this time unfortuneatly.
I've tried flashing new ROMs ontop of it, but it doesn't fix the issue.
Right now my device boots, but shows a the home screen without any icons. I also have no navigation bar (app drawer/task manager/back button). Also, Trechbucket FC repeatedly. I can't find any of my files on the phone, even through adb, but when I go into settings and look under STORAGE and click photos, it shows me a gallery of all my photos.
Somehow my SD card is separated into /sdcard/0/ and /sdcard/legacy/ and my photos/downloads/everything is in legacy.
I've tried pulling using adp to grab all of my files, but it says the directory doesn't exist, (maybe I'm doing it wrong). I begun to try to pull the entire /sdcard/ and it did pull close to 2GB of audiobooks I had on there, but it was taking forever and I wanted to selectively pull photos/documents instead. I'm not even sure if I had let it continue if it'd have pulled my photos.
I type in adb pull /sdcard/DCIM /sdcard/ and it tells me that '/sdcard/DCIM' does not exist. I also tried /sdcard/DCIM/ and same thing.
Yet I can find it easily while in shell....
I think it's possible some of my files are hidden? I can use file explorer (by using Settings>Storage>audio>Explorer to see that all my files are under SDCARD/Legacy but I try to adb pull from that and it doesn't exist.
I'm really confused....
Any help either fixing my phone or pulling my data (which is on here) so I can erase/start clean?
I'd much appreciate your help.
Thanks.

A quick search in this forum of 'sdcard 4.2' will explain why this happens.
Anyway, fix is to use adb to pull /data/media (instead of /sdcard)
FriedSushi87 said:
Okay, so I updated my GSM Galaxy Nexus to the newest nightly of CyanogenMod and it ****ed things up royally, and I neglected to make a backup this time unfortuneatly.
I've tried flashing new ROMs ontop of it, but it doesn't fix the issue.
Right now my device boots, but shows a the home screen without any icons. I also have no navigation bar (app drawer/task manager/back button). Also, Trechbucket FC repeatedly. I can't find any of my files on the phone, even through adb, but when I go into settings and look under STORAGE and click photos, it shows me a gallery of all my photos.
Somehow my SD card is separated into /sdcard/0/ and /sdcard/legacy/ and my photos/downloads/everything is in legacy.
I've tried pulling using adp to grab all of my files, but it says the directory doesn't exist, (maybe I'm doing it wrong). I begun to try to pull the entire /sdcard/ and it did pull close to 2GB of audiobooks I had on there, but it was taking forever and I wanted to selectively pull photos/documents instead. I'm not even sure if I had let it continue if it'd have pulled my photos.
I type in adb pull /sdcard/DCIM /sdcard/ and it tells me that '/sdcard/DCIM' does not exist. I also tried /sdcard/DCIM/ and same thing.
Yet I can find it easily while in shell....
I think it's possible some of my files are hidden? I can use file explorer (by using Settings>Storage>audio>Explorer to see that all my files are under SDCARD/Legacy but I try to adb pull from that and it doesn't exist.
I'm really confused....
Any help either fixing my phone or pulling my data (which is on here) so I can erase/start clean?
I'd much appreciate your help.
Thanks.
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i had this problem and thought I broke my SD card. But after a little exploring I found that Android 4.2 uses a new mounting point for SD card. My old SD card content was in /data/media, new sdcard content is in /data/media/0
I would recommend you either use adb or use terminal emulator to move your old files back to the new location. If you choose to use a file manager to do this, most likely it will be quite slow. I am assuming terminal emulator only does a low level dir path change while a file manager does an actual copy/move
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

DZYR said:
A quick search in this forum of 'sdcard 4.2' will explain why this happens.
Anyway, fix is to use adb to pull /data/media (instead of /sdcard)
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Thanks so much. That did the job. Now I've just got a weird /0/ directory with everything in it.
coferjinelong said:
i had this problem and thought I broke my SD card. But after a little exploring I found that Android 4.2 uses a new mounting point for SD card. My old SD card content was in /data/media, new sdcard content is in /data/media/0
I would recommend you either use adb or use terminal emulator to move your old files back to the new location. If you choose to use a file manager to do this, most likely it will be quite slow. I am assuming terminal emulator only does a low level dir path change while a file manager does an actual copy/move
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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I used ADB because I couldn't access terminal emulator because the phone had a botched update and wasn't working properly.
All's good now except for the fact that I've lost all my text messages..... and stuff...

Old ROM files keep coming back.

I have this folder on my phone that keeps coming back that is filled with old ROMs I had flashrd before. These add up to around 1.5GB. I can delete the whole folder but when I reboot my phone they are back. The folder name is called "!ReadytoFlash" I thought maybe these files are coming from the very top root folder of the phone but I can't seem to find where they are being restored from. There an example of a old ROM I had stored on the phone. Don't take into account that it is for the i9100 has this is not the phone I have. It is the Samsung galaxy nexus. The picture show me doing a search on one if the files that keeps coming back.

Post a screenshot of your phone - might help getting an answer

update your recovery and remove all the /0/ folders except 1.

Zepius said:
update your recovery and remove all the /0/ folders except 1.
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OK I deleted all but one /0/ folder and after rebooting it remade the rest of the /0/0/... folders and add the .zip roms
Edit for got to mention that I update my recovery to the latest version.

Give this a try...
Boot into recovery, plug in the USB cable, go into adb shell, and make sure that /data is mounted. Then:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *

file recovery

hi
well obviously i have a galaxy fame
unfortunately the touch function does not work
usb debugging is enabled but i dont have any custom rom
can someone help me access all my photos on the internal sdcard please
these are very important to me

PeatFx said:
hi
well obviously i have a galaxy fame
unfortunately the touch function does not work
usb debugging is enabled but i dont have any custom rom
can someone help me access all my photos on the internal sdcard please
these are very important to me
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you can find it ,at DCIM Folder

faizauthar12 said:
you can find it ,at DCIM Folder
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well to be honest im new to all of it.
i tried an adb pull of sys but cant find the dcim folder
i had the phone in recovery mode.
i think maybe a step by step guide would held lol

PeatFx said:
well to be honest im new to all of it.
i tried an adb pull of sys but cant find the dcim folder
i had the phone in recovery mode.
i think maybe a step by step guide would held lol
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To pull any file from your device, you need to know its path. Once you know the path of the file, enter the following command to pull the file.
adb pull <path-of-the-file>
For instance, lets pull the Settings.apk which is located in the /System/app/ folder on your device.
adb pull /system/app/Settings.apk
The file will be pulled and saved in the ADB folder itself.
And DCIM folder is in sdcard (At least mine is in sdcard. Maybe it differs from device to device.)
Hope I helped.:good: