Dear friends,
I have encountered an uncommon bug. Actually unsure whether it's a bug or not. Namely, when I download certain photos from the Google app on my OnePlus 5T, they do not get downloaded to local storage like other photos, but to the path written above. Furthermore, I am unable to delete these photos, unlike all other photos, and they can only be accessed through the Downloads app. The gallery does not list them. Has anyone encountered this error before? The images below show you my problem.
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Use FX file explorer or something, just enable show hidden files if you dont see them.
Adnan008 said:
Use FX file explorer or something, just enable show hidden files if you dont see them.
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Says I do not have access.
supaqoq said:
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im sorry, i just checked and you cant acces that direction without root, so its not a bug because where you download photos from that app, its private to that app only location (unless to system apps or root with root-access apps) and you should be able to delete those with Downloads app, as far i can see from that photo, its cache photo so if you are not able to delete that photo (you should able to do that) then you should try to clear Downloads app's clear data from apps manager (you Can lose your downloaded data if they are not in normal Download folder or somewhere else in storage where all apps can access them)
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im sorry, i just checked and you cant acces that direction without root, so its not a bug because where you download photos from that app, its private to that app only location (unless to system apps or root with root-access apps) and you should be able to delete those with Downloads app, as far i can see from that photo, its cache photo so if you are not able to delete that photo (you should able to do that) then you should try to clear Downloads app's clear data from apps manager (you Can lose your downloaded data if they are not in normal Download folder or somewhere else in storage where all apps can access them)
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So the question is: Why are photos downloaded from Google downloaded there.
Are you sure that is the only copy? Because that file in cache folder, for example open fx Explorer enable hidden files go to dcim/.thumbnails you will see a lot of low res photos, including deletes ones
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Somewhere between flashing different ROMs, my gallery seems to have broken. I've added some new pictures but they're all broken, too. When you click on one of the (blank) thumbnails, it just says "Thumbnail not available"
Any idea how to fix this? It's like a cache that needs to be rebuilt or something.
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PS: Don't mind the name of my /b/ folder :3
it appears that you have deleted the thumbnails but the picture data is there. Check if you can transfer the pictures to your computer.
spitefulcheerio said:
it appears that you have deleted the thumbnails but the picture data is there. Check if you can transfer the pictures to your computer.
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I can. I took that screenshot on my phone and selected it with Root Explorer (so I could actually see a thumbnail). But even though I created that screenshot AFTER all this happened, it still doesn't have a thumbnail and won't display in the Gallery app.
By the way, I'm running Gummy 0.3.8 with his latest GApps. It worked in the past on Gummy; I honestly can't remember when it broke or what I did to cause it.
it appears your thumbnail data has been moved or deleted. Use root explorer and look around the DCIM folder inside the SD card
spitefulcheerio said:
it appears your thumbnail data has been moved or deleted. Use root explorer and look around the DCIM folder inside the SD card
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Yup, it was there. I tried deleting it, nothing. I ended up deleting all the photos (they're originally from my computer) and tried re-adding them. They still aren't displaying. My G+ albums are displaying just fine, though.
Okay, where is your thumbnail folder located inside DCIM? Is it inside another folder or is it there when you first open DCIM?
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Okay, where is your thumbnail folder located inside DCIM? Is it inside another folder or is it there when you first open DCIM?
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/sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/
Edit: Fixed it! I tried wiping dalvik/cache and reflashing my ROM with no luck. Also tried deleting all the photos, deleting the thumbnail photo, wiping Cache from the Gallery app in Settings > Apps > Gallery, none of it worked.
Here's what worked:
1. Use RootExplorer to navigate to /sdcard/Android/data/
2. Delete com.android.gallery3d and (if it's there) com.google.android.gallery3d.
3. Relaunch the gallery app.
4. ???
5. Profit!
same problem
Not working for me deleted com.google.android.gallery3d with root explorer still no thumbnails. I'm running codename android 1.4. Anymore suggestions?
Ok, so somehow I did something that caused my SD card to fill up. When I look at DiskUsage, it shows that the system data folder is taking up all of my space.
Has anyone else had this problem, and can you fix it?
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I really need help...
I don't know what you did.... I compared my unit using the same tool and I don't even have a System Data section on my /sdcard
If you have TWRP loaded, you might be able to wipe your data etc... but I have no idea.
Perhaps someone else has an idea
Well, I dont have a system data folder, atleast in my SD card.
I am thinking maybe it is somehow attatched to the SD partition, but...
Anyway, is it normal to have 200,000 + files in your "sys" directory?
The tool you are using doesn't output very clear info and the graphics by themselves don't give you details on what it is really finding...
Below is what mine looks like. This appears to be the same setting you used, but as you can see, there is no System Data listed.
Are there tools that are more presise I can look for?
Ok, so I found a file inside LOST.DIR called 1048578. It is taking up 2.3 GB. Can I delete it safely?
yes you should be able to do that.
You most likely had a crash and the file was lost from where it was actually pointing.
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krelvinaz said:
yes you should be able to do that.
You most likely had a crash and the file was lost from where it was actually pointing.
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its because of three things that regularly happen
1) Because of Browsing the internet System data gets increased.
Try clearing your browser cache and reboot(e.g chrome, mozilla, the one u use the most)
2) Because of opening gallery your /DCIM/.Thumbnails folder gets loaded whit lots of bytes. delete the /DCIM/.Thumbnails folder
3) Also because of transfering files from your pc to your phone one more folder gets loaded.. delete it its the /nomedia/
Plz Hit Thanks............. :good: :good: :laugh:
The same thing also happened to me. Using the Android tool DiskUsage, after deleting many large media files via the PC, all of a sudden a System data of 22 GB was indicated. After I restarted the phone, the size was reduced to 2.3 GB.
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The same thing also happened to me. Using the Android tool DiskUsage, after deleting many large media files via the PC, all of a sudden a System data of 22 GB was indicated. After I restarted the phone, the size was reduced to 2.3 GB.
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You do realise that this thread is nearly 6 years old...
Hey guys
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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Yo guys, I've got a situation here.
So I was using the tablet of my mum, and when I tried to install a navigation app for her, it said that I don't have enough space left. Well I checked and found that:
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can any of you guys tell why the heck gallery takes up 8,37 gb?! my mum never ever does any photos with this tablet...
Not sure exactly why it's that big but did you look into the "App info" screen & try to clear data?
I've kinda experienced this on another device but nowhere near that much was being used, turned out it was a temp thumbnail cache file, it just grew bigger & bigger, over 1GB at one time, still have to keep clearing/deleting it every so often.
Gilly10 said:
Not sure exactly why it's that big but did you look into the "App info" screen & try to clear data?
I've kinda experienced this on another device but nowhere near that much was being used, turned out it was a temp thumbnail cache file, it just grew bigger & bigger, over 1GB at one time, still have to keep clearing/deleting it every so often.
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Tried it, nothing changed
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Tried it, nothing changed
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provided you have root and custom recovery AND your rom is de-odexed
pull the gallery.apk from system and store it on your sdcard, then delete the original.
then go jnto dcim/.thumbnails and clear it. then goto app settings and clear data.
then reboot to recovery and wipe caches. then reboot. then drop gallery apk back into
system, the reset permissions on gallery.apk to 644 then reboot.
now recheck.
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moonbutt74 said:
provided you have root and custom recovery AND your rom is de-odexed
pull the gallery.apk from system and store it on your sdcard, then delete the original.
then go jnto dcim/.thumbnails and clear it. then goto app settings and clear data.
then reboot to recovery and wipe caches. then reboot. then drop gallery apk back into
system, the reset permissions on gallery.apk to 644 then reboot.
now recheck.
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K the problem is that this tablet is not mine, it's from my mum, and she doesn't want to root /unlock it because it still got warrenty
with root, i wouldn't be a great problem for me to reset that
I have faced this problem multiple times, this is how i resolved it.
There are two .thumbnails folders
1.) Sdcard
2.) dcim\.thumbnails
Enable hidden files in My Files or ex explorer settings and delete these directories
And using es explorer create a file .thumbnails where the directory used to be
This will ensure that the .thumbnails directory is never created as there is already a file with the same name there.
The dcim/.thumnails is for the gallery
The sdcard/.thumbnails is for the video player
Note: in kitkat use Mx player as the stock video player seems to crash if you create a file at sdcard/.thumbnails
I'm trying to delete/move/modify some files on my Nexus 7 2013, but when I set my N7 to MTP, i'm only able to see folders and none of the files inside the folders, it shows 0 files in the folder
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Is there something that's making it so I can't view the files or do I just need to do something in windows in order to see them?
In the above example, with Root Browser app, I am able to see files in that folder
Being told that windows is showing /storage while root browser is showing /data
Is there anyway to get into /data on windows or is that not possible?
It's a bug of Media Storage app.
open MS app
clear data
reboot N7
Access all files on PC
k23m said:
It's a bug of Media Storage app.
open MS app
clear data
reboot N7
Access all files on PC
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What is MS app?
settings - apps - all - Media Storage
k23m said:
settings - apps - all - Media Storage
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I'm not seeing that in Settings > Apps
xanek said:
I'm not seeing that in Settings > Apps
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From the main Apps area, tap the overflow buttons. Then tap Show system.
xanek said:
I'm not seeing that in Settings > Apps
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I'm on CM12.1 (v5.1.1)
You?
k23m said:
I'm on CM12.1 (v5.1.1)
You?
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i'm on stock.
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From the main Apps area, tap the overflow buttons. Then tap Show system.
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Thanks, that pulled it up.
Though it doesn't really help with what i'm trying to do..
Thing is, I don't want to look at the /emulated files, I want to look at the files in /data/data, and connecting as MTP only is showing me files from /emulated
You ain't going to see root stuff from MTP on unpatched kernel.
As for the MS app, it really has a known and persistent bug which needs manual db refresh.
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You ain't going to see root stuff from MTP on unpatched kernel.
As for the MS app, it really has a known and persistent bug which needs manual db refresh.
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So you need to have a patched kernel in order to see root files on a windows pc...?
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So you need to have a patched kernel in order to see root files on a windows pc...?
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Yes, for MTP.
Alternatively, with "adbd Insecure" you can access root files with adb.