I'm currently low on space on my internal storage and I believe the problem is old nandroid backups from back when I used CWM. I now use TWRP and it doesn't see my old backups. Where can I find the backups so that I can delete them?
If all you wanna do is deal with the nandroid backups on your device, I use Nandroid Manager (from Google Play store, its free). It finds the paths where any and all backups on the device may be stored, and lists them for you. You can then go and delete them or browse them if you want...
I've tried that, but it only shows my most recent backup that was made with TWRP. It doesn't show any of my old backups that I made when I was still using CWM
Drisc0 said:
I've tried that, but it only shows my most recent backup that was made with TWRP. It doesn't show any of my old backups that I made when I was still using CWM
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Download Rom Manager in the play store from Clockworkmod and go to Manage and Restore Backups and then delete them.
Drisc0 said:
I've tried that, but it only shows my most recent backup that was made with TWRP. It doesn't show any of my old backups that I made when I was still using CWM
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Use a file browser and go to sdcard-clockworkmod and they should all be there. Cut and paste them to a computer if you need to save them. You can always use titanium back as well as app from above to extract anything you need.
Sorry for the late response, I've been busy with school and just got around to attempting to fix this issue to no avail. I tried reflashing CWM to see if it could see old recoveries but I couldn't see any. I'm beginning to think it's not actually old nandroid files, but something else taking up all the storage instead. I've used diskusage and root explorer to try and find something that was taking up lots of room, but nothing was taking up much space. I don't have many apps, and there's no way the rom should be taking up this much room. This thread over at androidcentral shows other people having the same problem. This is getting pretty bad as I can't update or install any apps.
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After doing some digging around in diskusage I finally found the culprit. All of the old recoveries had been moved into /data/lost+found. Deleting the contents fixed all my problems! Hopefully this will help someone else out, it has been driving me crazy.
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OKay I'm coming from a Nexus S where things seemed to be so much easier. I initially had CWM but when I performed a backup I could not find my backups anywhere using windows. So I went into CWM and deleted the backup created by CWM and installed TWRP. Well I did a backup using that and when I restarted my phone and went to view my backup again I couldn't find it. So I deleted TWRP and installed CWM again.
Now I went to install from SD on CWM and I finally seen my folders that I couldn't see on Windows. I'm guessing they're on the root of the SD file and I can't locate it on my phone at all. So I was wondering how would I go about deleting it on ADB. Please help.
Here's a picture of where TWRP is on phone and the backup that I can't view on TWRP but can see on CWM.
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I've also searched xda for solutions and couldn't find any.
The path is:
TWRP/backups/backup file
063_XOBX said:
The path is:
TWRP/backups/backup file
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So how would I delete it? I can't find it on my phone or Computer. But I can see it when I go into CWM.
Nevermind I figured it out.
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The path is:
TWRP/backups/backup file
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use some file manager and delete it manualy.maybe you must have root permissions,coz that folder is in system/data/media folder i think.
sorry my bad english
delete
koolkid09 said:
Nevermind I figured it out.
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What did you figure out? I did something similar and I can't find the backup that was made..
it is not difficult for you to do this
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Go into TWRP, click on restore then click on the backup you want to delete. There will be a button that says "Delete Backup".
Image of said button.
for me. I can see my twrp backup using a file manager (and using root browser) and I can see the backup on my pc BUT, when i boot into twrp it says the backup folder is empty! and when i try to delete the 4.6gb back up file using my pc or using root browser it fails to delete the file (no error, just says 'Unable To Delete File'...what gives!? I'd really like that 4,6 gigabytes of space back on my phone lol!
I've always used CWM but I see everyone basically recommending it. I've tried it in the past and I've never had it work probably, they just updated it to 2.4.2.0, so I figured I'd give it a shot. The time zone is set, time never is correct, battery is no where near correct, that doesn't bother me, however, I cannot make a backup. I CAN and do, but once I reboot and enter recovery again, it doesn't show up under restore. The backup is still in my phone though via root explorer. I usually fast boot flash the .IMG file, but I also used goo manager to just see if somehow it got corrupt. To be honest the only two features I like are being able to name your backups, and multi zip flashing is neat. What the ****?
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Toro user
TWRP doesn't keep backups, date and battery info are incorrect.
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(Pretty sure this phone didn't exist in '99)
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backups should be in /data/media/0/TWRP/...
because the virtual sdcard is in /data/media/0/ for android 4.2 and above
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backups should be in /data/media/0/TWRP/...
because the virtual sdcard is in /data/media/0/ for android 4.2 and above
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That's just a redirect.
Just how like that's the same for:
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/sdcard0
/sdcard/
Are all the same directory, same files.
REGARDLESS, twrp should account for the 4.2 filesystem as you needed to update your recovery going to 4.2 to have these issues corrected and my clockwork touch recovery works fine, and I've used the newest twrp, so it makes no sense, I've even backed up my storage, deleted /data/media while doing a full cleanup to have twrp and my ROM create the correct directories for 4.2 and it still doesn't work.
If it wasn't the correct version it would keep creating /x/0/0/0 everytime I flashed a new ROM which it doesn't.
I'm over it as twrp only has those two features which doesn't bother me and the interface is ugly IMHO.
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andQlimax said:
backups should be in /data/media/0/TWRP/...
because the virtual sdcard is in /data/media/0/ for android 4.2 and above
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notstevek said:
That's just a redirect.
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It's not a redirect. /data/media/0 is the physical location of the data. The other locations are either fuse mounts or symlinks that point back to this location.
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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?
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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
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I'm on marshmallow 6.0.1 Mr.wonderful coming from pd1 marshmallow, did a tb before wiping, updated and flashed Mr.W 6.0 and tried to restore my apps but for some reason titanium is not recognizing my backup any ideas why and is there a way I could restore them?
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You did notice that your 3rd screenshot shows only one backup, right?
The same screenshot shows: (click here to change). Use that to select one of three options to possibly try to get synced to where the actual backups are. Think of the alternatives as permission choices. If you see this "This folder does not have write permission", you can't select that location- it may even be hid if it's on your micro sdcard that you're trying to sync TB to but there's no write permission allocated there.
Ultimately, you may have to move those backups to a folder you create with the 2nd option with TB. I'd suggest you have those backed up on PC to prevent loss; the TB prompted move process is dysfunctional for me. You may have success with simply creating the folder with TB and then copying the backups there.
Marshmallow has limited the access and write privileges. Maybe it's PE1 security update that changed but manage with what you can by moving to favorable location.
I've read posts suggesting /Android/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup will allow TB to protect backups but unless the path includes /mnt/media_rw, didn't work for me. Mine is /mnt/media_rw/sdcard volume name/Android/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/.
If Titanium Backup creates a folder, it will have the owner and permissions it needs to save and read the backups.
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Looks like your backups got wiped. Mine have been wiped multiple times unfortunately. I have mine on my external SD card and it's still happened. From what I can tell, when the app points to the backup location and is uninstalled it'll remove all of the backups too. I never uninstall apps before flashing something new but I have a feeling when I used Odin it played some magic and poof went the backups because that is the only time they ever vanish. In fact the com.keramidas folder mentioned above that I make myself gets removed also.
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My backups are in my SD card and internal trying to see if it makes a difference but in both locations it still don't recognize them even though they are there
I have old backup folders and they appear with no problem
It might be that folder or something as that's the only that don't show up
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Hello.
Why is no applications backed up when backing up in miui backup?
What good is such an application if it can't back up any one application?
In Settings>Xiaomi account>Xiaomi Cloud u can make a back up that include all/most of ur apps. It's useful when u flash stock ROM only.
You didn't understand me at all.
I have a stock rom.
When backing up, every application is not backed up, only an exclamation mark appears next to them and that's it.
The backup should be 1.5 gb, but only 34 mb will be saved.
I just showed u another way to do a back up (which will restore most of ur apps) instead using miui backup (which is an app, I guess). If doesn't suit u, no problem Btw, I can do nothing to change what miui backup does, so that's why i suggested another way.
Don't bother with miui app backups, they'll just break everything if you restore them after flashing a ROM.
Use google cloud backups for settings and some app data for restoring stuff after a flash or reset.
Hi, just an additional question: does this MIUI backup works with weekly developer eu ROM ?
Thanks
jkmaxfli said:
You didn't understand me at all.
I have a stock rom.
When backing up, every application is not backed up, only an exclamation mark appears next to them and that's it.
The backup should be 1.5 gb, but only 34 mb will be saved.
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....same to me ....did you find a solution?
Same here. totally frustrating. All my themes are gone
jkmaxfli said:
Hello.
Why is no applications backed up when backing up in miui backup?
What good is such an application if it can't back up any one application?
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It doesn't work because Miui is a real s h i t
MyPhoneExplorer works fine backing up apps at once. To restore then we need to restore one by one by using myphoneexplorer "Aplications" or copy the all directory to the phone and then install one by one.
Swish is suppose to do this but I do believe you must be rooted for a full backup
Same here. totally frustrating. Why " Not supported" ?
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with xiaomi.eu ROM 12.5.9 the Backup works.
I think higher versions are buggy