How do you delete the obb folder in the internal storage ?
use a file manager like root explorer/solid explorer. Or you could just wipe internal sd also.
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d12unk13astard said:
use a file manager like root explorer/solid explorer. Or you could just wipe internal sd also.
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I still cannot delete the obb folder using those file manager program. It seems that the obb folder is unable to be deleted. It is write protected. My note 3 is rooted.
Why would you want to delete the obb folder? Do you know what it is. Instead of deleting it.. ( all of you apps downloaded data). Why don't you move some of the biggest apps to the ext sd to free up some space ☺???
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Well ever since I went on to 4.2 my internal drive has emulated and legacy and like 3 versions of my SD card. If I download a file that's a 100 megabytes, my phone triples it and I lose 300 megabytes, my storage folder looks like this,
storage>emulated, sdcard0, sdcard1, usbdisk0
Then in emulated...
emulated>0, legacy
Inside "0" and "legacy" are exact copies of my SD card (sdcard0)
Does anyone know how to remedy this, its ridiculously annoying, thanks in advance...
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Any ideas really, would be helpful
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irish.iolar said:
Any ideas really, would be helpful
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You could always format data and re-flash your rom. I believe this happened because your recovery was not up to date. Since i have updated to TWRP 2.4.1.0, I do not have this issue. I have read that you can copy the files to where they should be and delete the folders. I would search in this forum for emulated storage and see what comes up.
Ah arite I'll try that, but as for the formating data, I do that every time I flash a ROM (mounts&storage>format data), do you mean formating SD card? But yeah def gonna update my recov. Thanks dudette
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irish.iolar said:
Well ever since I went on to 4.2 my internal drive has emulated and legacy and like 3 versions of my SD card. If I download a file that's a 100 megabytes, my phone triples it and I lose 300 megabytes, my storage folder looks like this, [...]
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Are you sure you lose 3 times the file size in storage space? I don't have a 4.2 ROM, but it looks to me that your files aren't duplicated in multiple folders. Instead, "0" and "legacy" are more than probably just links/shortcuts to the same storage space in your SD card.
Lol yes I'm positive, its ridiculous, and if I delete something on one of the folders, its deleted on all of them, ugh...
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Same thing happened on my SGS2 running the newest AOKP. The fix is that you have to format the internal sdcard. There were many users that had multiple "0" folders. I only had one but did notice that I lost some files or thought I did. They were in one of the legacy folders though. They were all my old nandroid backups. So back up anything you need from your internal sdcard to somewhere else and reformat it. Then add them back in. It is a different format on how/where files are stored.
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Is just for multiple users. Just Merge them together and update to latest recovery and it won't happen again.
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Go to data media folder beside a single 0 folder delete or move everything to data/media to data/media/ 0. Problem solved. If got more then one 0 folder such as data/media/0/0 you will have move everything from the 2nd 0 folder to the first. To repeat data/media should only contain a single folder named 0. Everything should be inside data/media/0 that's your internal sd card. If after you move delete everything in data's media folder a few folders pop back no problem but no files. Look for hidden files. Also update to latest recovery. Data/media old sd. Data/media/0 New sd..
Data/media/0 /0 is old recovery issue A's bad. It won't go away on its own but will stop multiplying once update recovery check my Sig my twrp listed goes drop box with all latest recoverys.
Clean data/media out but check before delete **** if you need anything just move to data media/0 and don't delete the first 0 folder
K buddy good luck search for more info
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Data media. And system data. Not same. Depending on file manager so be careful. Yea i had a twrp folder hidden in data media had six gigs missing backups i never knew about moved then data media 0 folder A's delete twrp folder and fixed
Make it easy use a Windows android file manager like android commander. I think it's in my Sig I'm on phone can't check but pm me I help you tomorrow cuz this.it's not complicated
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So I rooted my Galaxy s4 yesterday but the Obb folder in my sdcard/android folder is still write protected. I tried going on Root Explorer and changing the permissions but it won't let me. I also tried renaming it, changing the permissions, and renaming it again but it crashes Root Explorer and resets the permissions back to normal. How do I get around this?
Any reason why you need to write to your obb folder? Are you pirating apps??
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Any reason why you need to write to your obb folder? Are you pirating apps??
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No, I have already bought the games but I want to download modded versions of them just for the sake of doing as I please in the game. But the write protection is in the way.
Found a solution
I found that if you use AntTek Explorer and go to Device Root/Storage/Sdcard0/Android/obb, you will find the obb folder that is not write protected. I transferred my obb file from my computer to the Android folder and just used the app to drag the obb file into the obb folder. I'm not sure if this works on other root explorers. Good luck
few weeks ago i pasted sd card data for spiderman mayhem in sdcard\gameloft\games\spiderman.....the games worked fine and then i deleted that folder and apk........after so many days it's clashing with my GL to SD(since i updated this app and performed a device restart)....when i open mounted folder option in GL to SD it says gameloft\games\spiderman.....and give me an error message unmount fail try again then i deleted GL to SD and tried to delete the gameloft\games\ spiderman folder but its says folder delete fail.....is their any way so i can delete this folder? i deleted this folder via root explorer but the folder is recreating itself.....did a virus scan but no virus so far
Try aroma file manager. Delete the folder with it.
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Try aroma file manager. Delete the folder with it.
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is it better than root explorer or solid explorer both have got root access.....unse delete nahin hua
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AbhimanyuAryan said:
is it better than root explorer or solid explorer both have got root access.....unse delete nahin hua
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Aroma file manager can be entered from recovery.. Get it .. Then flash it in recovery so it will open it self
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UtkarshGupta said:
Try aroma file manager. Delete the folder with it.
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buddy i am using twrp for note2 can u plz post a link to the thread where i can get aroma file manager
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I did a few backups in twrp. Not sure if that's what is causing it. There are a lot of large data files in the miscellaneous tab. Four data.ext4.win and four system.ext4.win. What are these files for? Can I delete any of them?
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Those are your backups. They use space on the phone's storage. Connect it to a PC and transfer the files off.
What's the best way to delete twrp backups? It seems like they get saved to 2 spots: \storage\emulated\0\twrp\backup and sdcard/TWRP. Then inside emulated is a copy of sdcard as sdcard0. Where is this emulated thing coming from? I think it's AirDroid. I tried uninstalling AirDroid, and deleting that while tree but I get an error in both root browser apps I use.
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What's the best way to delete twrp backups? It seems like they get saved to 2 spots: \storage\emulated\0\twrp\backup and sdcard/TWRP. Then inside emulated is a copy of sdcard as sdcard0. Where is this emulated thing coming from? I think it's AirDroid. I tried uninstalling AirDroid, and deleting that while tree but I get an error in both root browser apps I use.
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Not airdroid...
It's a legacy folder that is added when using CM builds. ..
Do a general search on the subject. ..and you'll find the full explanation for the "O" folder. ..g
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I can't able to delete data from .thumbnails folder in internal memory it's using about 2gb space I have deleted folder but free space is same as before after deleting the file I tried to create a new file with the same name but it is showing task failed
Please give me solution for this guys
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santhire said:
I can't able to delete data from .thumbnails folder in internal memory it's using about 2gb space I have deleted folder but free space is same as before after deleting the file I tried to create a new file with the same name but it is showing task failed
Please give me solution for this guys
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Download es file explorer, delete thumbnails folder, create a file called ".thumbnails" and you will get rid of this problem forever...
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