Hey all. I've been busting my brain, downloading different file managers, playing with permissions and whatnot trying to delete a couple folders left over from Skynote Rom.There's a folder named "Z" on my internal storage that won't go away. That folder houses the sky note wallpapers and an LMT pie launcher apk. Its in two spots on my internal storage and neither will delete. Though it doesn't take up much memory, its annoying to see 3 skynote wallpaper galleries in my photo gallery every time.
Is there a way to delete these items through some file manager I've yet to try or maybe even through recovery mode? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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One other screenshot to show in gallery. This was taken after I already deleted two other skynote walls galleries.
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Does this folder appear in data/media? Try deleting from that location.
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Delete it using TWRP. Had that same folder and couldn't get it removed. Until I deleted it from the TWRP recovery..
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alpinesun said:
Hey all. I've been busting my brain, downloading different file managers, playing with permissions and whatnot trying to delete a couple folders left over from Skynote Rom.There's a folder named "Z" on my internal storage that won't go away. That folder houses the sky note wallpapers and an LMT pie launcher apk. Its in two spots on my internal storage and neither will delete. Though it doesn't take up much memory, its annoying to see 3 skynote wallpaper galleries in my photo gallery every time.
Is there a way to delete these items through some file manager I've yet to try or maybe even through recovery mode? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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In your CM explorer app...open settings and enable root mode.
then dump the files you want gone..
Be careful in there....the CM file manager will allow deletion of "any" file within the OS, while root mode is enabled....g
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Delete it using TWRP. Had that same folder and couldn't get it removed. Until I deleted it from the TWRP recovery..
Just my 2¢®
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Thanks for that one man. I love this twrp as well. Way better than the regular one I was using to flash ROMs and zips. Thanks!
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Thanks for that one man. I love this twrp as well. Way better than the regular one I was using to flash ROMs and zips. Thanks!
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Ur Welcome
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Tiresome sifting through pages upon pages of pictures from apps and such to find my personal media. Thanks
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Should be able to move the pics to a new folder titled ".nomedia"
Shouldn't scan that folder.
actually, I think all you need to do is create a file called .nomedia and place it into the folders you don't want the media scanner to scan.
Works great to keep the gallery from adding all of the images that Touchdown (my corporate email program) caches on the phone.
Is there a method to include folders rather than exclude -because I have way too many files from wherever that I would have to exclude with that method. Thanks
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Bump. What does "bump" mean? Does it mean 'no one is looking at my thread, hey you, will you look at my thread? Either way, hey you... kidding, but please, does anyone know of a way to choose folders for the gallery rather than choose to exclude which as I mentioned would be way to cumbersome? Thanks
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Put your pics you want private in a desperate folder. Rename the folder to anything with a period in the beginning and voila!
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Hiding private media isn't the issue.
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If you don't mind a 3rd party solution, get QuickPic. I seriously haven't used my stock gallery in over a year. It has the option to exclude certain folders ( and thus scan the rest of the SD card ), or include folders instead ( only scans the folders you choose ).
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If you don't mind a 3rd party solution, get QuickPic. I seriously haven't used my stock gallery in over a year. It has the option to exclude certain folders ( and thus scan the rest of the SD card ), or include folders instead ( only scans the folders you choose ).
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Thanks. I'll go check that out
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Works great. Thanks
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You could also make a text file and rename it to .nomedia no name with that file extension and it will not show up, which is what quickpic does for you.
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You could also make a text file and rename it to .nomedia no name with that file extension and it will not show up, which is what quickpic does for you.
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what exactly are you saying will not "show up"?
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RushAOZ said:
Put your pics you want private in a desperate folder. Rename the folder to anything with a period in the beginning and voila!
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thanks. that's the solution.
edit: actually no, gallery still finds private media and now the folder just renamed with a dot in front has now disappeared.
edit: actually, there is a setting in astro to display such files, BUT then now the gallery app will display contents of private but visible folder so...
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Something seems to be wrong with the calculation of my internal storage. I feel like I should have more free space. Any ideas where this used space could be hiding? And how I'm using 523MB for pictures isn't possible, I have around 70 photos on this phone. They average 2MB each.
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Nandroids?
I only have one nandroid back up. The files in the backup folder aren't particularly large though.
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Shad0wguy said:
I only have one nandroid back up. The files in the backup folder aren't particularly large though.
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Download Es file explorer, once inside click menu "3 dots" click manager then click SD card analyst. It will show you what your apps are eating or various things being stored. Most likely my guess is a bunch if non sense thumbnails. Probably a bunch of small files.
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Will look something like this.
Yeah I know I'm low, I need to clean my directory lol
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Download Es file explorer, once inside click menu "3 dots" click manager then click SD card analyst. It will show you what your apps are eating or various things being stored. Most likely my guess is a bunch if non sense thumbnails. Probably a bunch of small files.
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Glad I found this. Was finally able to locate some old game files that were taking up 3 GB !!Thanks!
I have the exact same problem and this worked, but when I delete it it says the space is free, but j get out and go back and the files are all back again. Its been like this ever since I rooted and unlocked my phone.
I was using Astro file manager to clear some space on my phone, and noticed that I had a folder called emulated on there that had all the same files, figuring that was what was taking up so much space I deleted it. Now all my files are gone from sddisk0 too! Is there any way to reverse a mass delete like this??
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Maybe try connecting to a PC (or Mac) and running an undelete prog. or check to see if there is an undelete app out their.
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Just tried two apps from the marketplace once couldn't scan it the other just FC instantly :-/ I need to get my files back
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The apps you are trying to use wont work as the phones internal sd is MTP and cannot be mounted as a disk. THIS HERE is your only option. Its a pain in the ass but youll get all your stuff back provided you havent been using the phone heavily overwriting the stuff u want to recover. Used this on two GS3's, a Galaxy Nexus and my Note II. Flawless if you follow the instructions
As the title mentiones, my device is out of memory. Like none. Even if I install a new rom the phone storage is still low cant even update all my apps because there's no space on my device. I tried apps to see whats taking up the huge space but there all worthless really cant delete from the app. Dont want to delete important files either so question is how can I get ride of all this crap the phone doesn't need?
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silly question, but once it was done calculating did you tap on one of the sections to see the individual files and there sizes? i was coming close to having this issue, until i went through each of those sections with a fine tooth comb. it was then i found piles of old downloaded files just stock piled....ended up clearing 3 gigs.
Let that screen sit for a minute to let the calculations finish. Then select a category (like miscellaneous). Then check which files you like to delete. The hidden thumbnail folder can get big, much like other app folders that cache info.
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Have you possibly flashed any aosp or cyanogen roms. Could possibly have files built up in an O folder on your internal sd card
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have any nandroids?
Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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In my screenshot above, that 2+GB TWRP folder has only 1 backup of the data partition. Moving these backups to external SD can open a lot of internal storage space.
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I can't for the life of me find this directory. When I last installed a nandroid it showed /media but it's not there. I have looked in almost every folder. Before flashing to 4.3 my nandroid was in sdcard/twrp but not anymore.
Also is there a difference between sdcard0 and emulated?? I swear I should have a lot more space then I do. Was wondering with these two directories are the files doubled or are they in fact just mirrored.
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likwidkool said:
I can't for the life of me find this directory. When I last installed a nandroid it showed /media but it's not there. I have looked in almost every folder. Before flashing to 4.3 my nandroid was in sdcard/twrp but not anymore.
Also is there a difference between sdcard0 and emulated?? I swear I should have a lot more space then I do. Was wondering with these two directories are the files doubled or are they in fact just mirrored.
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The 0 folder gets created when any CM based Rom is installed. Just copy the contents of your SD to the 0 folder and keep both.
There is a logcat file that grows each time you install a CM ROM. It's in /root on stock, and in /mnt/shell/emulated in CM Rom's.
TWRP looks in the 0 folder or /data/media/0
Edit: Ooops forgot to say you can delete that logcat
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The 0 folder gets created when any CM based Rom is installed. Just copy the contents of your SD to the 0 folder and keep both.
There is a logcat file that grows each time you install a CM ROM. It's in /root on stock, and in /mnt/shell/emulated in CM Rom's.
TWRP looks in the 0 folder or /data/media/0
Edit: Ooops forgot to say you can delete that logcat
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Thanks for the quick reply! The log cat is only 10mb so no biggie. I still can't find my backups though looking where you said. I tried to delete my old nandroids with rom toolbox but they didn't delete.
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likwidkool said:
Thanks for the quick reply! The log cat is only 10mb so no biggie. I still can't find my backups though looking where you said. I tried to delete my old nandroids with rom toolbox but they didn't delete.
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You sure you didn't delete them too?
Try /mnt/sdcard, or /mnt/shell/emulated.
If you still can't find them, reboot to TWRP, see if they show, then boot up ROM
Use a rooted explorer on your phone to find them. Your computer my not show them yet....but eventually. Sometimes its a bugger to get the files to show up.
Wow. Finally found it. Swear I looked here a million times but it was in /data/media/twrp/backups
Root browser in rom toolbox wouldn't delete them but es file Explorer did. Got 1.7gb back. I only need one nandroid!
Still would love to know where the rest of my space is though. May have to do a full wipe at some point.
Thanks for the help engine!!
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likwidkool said:
Wow. Finally found it. Swear I looked here a million times but it was in /data/media/twrp/backups
Root browser in rom toolbox wouldn't delete them but es file Explorer did. Got 1.7gb back. I only need one nandroid!
Still would love to know where the rest of my space is though. May have to do a full wipe at some point.
Thanks for the help engine!!
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Lol I had the same problem. Ended up just backing up my efs backups to the computer then installing chameleon OS and wiped everything because it ended up mirroring everything 4 times and filled up my storage haha...
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AFschizoid said:
Lol I had the same problem. Ended up just backing up my efs backups to the computer then installing chameleon OS and wiped everything because it ended up mirroring everything 4 times and filled up my storage haha...
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Yeah i was wondering if all those mirrors are taking up extra space. I have the same folders in like 4 different places all with different dates on them. I have only 8gbs free. Pics are like 1.5gbs and music is 8gbs. My backups and old rom downloads are about 4gbs. No way my apps take up the rest of the space. I don't even have any games installed right now.
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likwidkool said:
Yeah i was wondering if all those mirrors are taking up extra space. I have the same folders in like 4 different places all with different dates on them. I have only 8gbs free. Pics are like 1.5gbs and music is 8gbs. My backups and old rom downloads are about 4gbs. No way my apps take up the rest of the space. I don't even have any games installed right now.
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Lol well I kept trying out stock and aosp and every time I did that it would add another 0 folder inside.
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Lol well I kept trying out stock and aosp and every time I did that it would add another 0 folder inside.
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I think that's what happened to me. I bounced between stock, nexogen, cm 10.1 and all the 4.3 roms.
Downloaded a disk usage app and honestly with their breakdown it actually adds up. I also didn't take into account system data. I takes up 2gbs on its own. I thought that would have been included in the 7gb unusable we have.
Plus i guess there are some residual cache issues. Those 0 folders have cache files from old programs. I found 500mb cache file from spotify and I haven't had that installed for a few weeks. Plus i found a 500mb logcat file.
I guess i'll do more digging and clean it up. I don't feel like wiping internal right now.
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likwidkool said:
I think that's what happened to me. I bounced between stock, nexogen, cm 10.1 and all the 4.3 roms.
Downloaded a disk usage app and honestly with their breakdown it actually adds up. I also didn't take into account system data. I takes up 2gbs on its own. I thought that would have been included in the 7gb unusable we have.
Plus i guess there are some residual cache issues. Those 0 folders have cache files from old programs. I found 500mb cache file from spotify and I haven't had that installed for a few weeks. Plus i found a 500mb logcat file.
I guess i'll do more digging and clean it up. I don't feel like wiping internal right now.
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Could just hook it up to a computer, open the storage then right click and arrange icons by size so you can see the big folders first. Faster than just going folder to folder
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AFschizoid said:
Could just hook it up to a computer, open the storage then right click and arrange icons by size so you can see the big folders first. Faster than just going folder to folder
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Fair point! I have a mac so I rarely hook my phone up to it. Might have to do it though for.the interest of my sanity!
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