I went through the \Windows\ directory and took a short inventory list of the junk I don't use, such as the ROM pictures and silly things. I created 0b files to replace them and copied them over. I freed up about 3MB. Here is the list and here are the 0 byte files attached. Replace at your own risk, but nothing is wrong on my side of the pond.
I've made more removals and made the list bigger. Saving upwards of 4MB.
EDIT: Crap. Messaging won't open.
hahahaha
i knew you are up to screwing something...
lol
Congrats on the initiative...
I will short message you something important right now, heads up!
Lol. Okay, I've restored and fixed it. Updated first post with some more safe files, 3MB freed. Messaging fixed.
Does it free up 3mb of ram? or disk space?
Disk space on device memory.
So it won't make Vox any faster?
nops but will give you more space on device....
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Hi,
I flashed my HTC Touch Diamond yesterday with this ROM. Suffice to say Im pretty pleased with it, however my Diamond doesnt have a lot of storage space left (on the device, i.e. not the 4GB internal storage or RAM) and as a result I keep getting nasty messages telling me to free up some space etc...
I appreciate that its a beefy ROM with Sense 2.5 but I dont understand what is happening. When i flashed the phone I had about 8MB free. I put a 6MB ringtone into the ringtones folder before noticing how little space that left me with (2MB) and then deleted it. Now a couple of days later I notice that I have less than 1MB of space, yet I havent installed any apps to the device storage so what has been filling the space up? This morning I attempted to install Facebook and Google Maps to the storage card via Marketplace as these were already on the device storage but it doesnt seem to have freed up any space.
Does anyone know how I can free up some space please? None of the apps cooked into the ROM appear in the "Remove Programs" app.
Cheers.
Hi,
Things like e-mail import, text messages, temporary files just take a lot of space of the memory.
AthenaROM is not very good, I suggest you flash for example Gen Y D2X.
Hard-resetting is the only way to clean it up, most of the files are system files that will return after deletion.
Hi thanks for your reply.
I'll check out that other ROM; for the moment I've simply copied some non-Marketplace apps to the storage card and placed shortcuts into the /Windows/Start Menu folder on the device memory. Only thing is the icons dont show, anyone have any ideas please?
Thanks.
I have been wrestling with ever-increasing usage of /data/data in my HTC Inncredible phone. It is limited to 140MB. I found a program Not Enough Space which lets you map selected apps' /data/data into an external virtual disk file in the /emmc partition (which has 6Gb free, unusable to Android, another story). I NES-remapped some of the hog apps like Earth and Skype, and eventually got to where I had 50MB free. Now, 3 months later I got another "Application data space is low" and I'm back down to 14MB. I looked and my Contact Storage is now at 70MB, but I haven't added more than 3 or 4 contacts in the last couple of months. Byt even THAT isn't enough to have used 36MB more!
During my last few nandroid backups, I noticed that, during backup of 'datadata' I saw BILLIONS of files called thumbnail_photo_nnnnn.jpg zipping by on the nandroid display. over half of the thermometer movement for 'datadata' was these things! I strongly suspect a runaway app has left that s**t out there.
Finally my question: Can I delete the /data/data/thumbnail_photo_nnnn files, and if so, how. I went in with the root ADB using clockwork recovery looked in /data/data but I'm in a bit over my head. I couldn't see them. I believe the partition was mounted (per cat /proc/mounts). SO you see I need that little hint from one of the experts here to maybe solve my problem
Ya ha!! I solved iit myself, and in the process freed up 40+ MEGS of precious /data/data space! The thumbnails are located in
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files
Every file in that dir is a thumbnail_photo_nnnnn.jpg file. There were thousands, and each was about 7-10Kb. I have 400 contacts, so WTF? I had a nandroid backup, so I just deleted them all. OK, no more cute pix of my contacts, BFD. I got back 40+ Mb of /data/data space.
Here's my theory: The bloat is a result of the Facebook Sync, in which FB friends' profile pix are stored for FB and linked contacts. Now, over the span of a year or so, your FB contacts will change their profile pix a few times. When a contact gets a new profile pic by syncing with FB, the old one isn't deleted. Eventually those fossil profile pix will use up your precious /data/data partition!
I'll post here again after a few weeks to see how much space a fresh load of synced profile pix takes up.
Been really frustrated the past few days with the amount of times my surface has become deathly slow/unresponsive and crashes (restarts).
When I say unresponsive or slow I mean when you try left to right swipe to multi task it doesn't do it or the animation is really slow. similarly opening charms bar doesn't work or pressing windows button doesnt do anything.
A lot of times, 90% of the time the only thing I'm using is IE and bing.
Just now crashed/rebooted and saw a message on desktop
Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified.
When you click OK it loads Performance Options window and the virtual memory is set to 448 MB
I have never configured this before. What should it be set to?
Getting quite frustrated. Been happy using this device for months now without any such problems.
Right now, I'm pretty much guaranteed a crash or suffer extreme performance issues when loading a single a youtube page. ie becomes unresponsive even after closing the tab swiping up or down may or may not work. tapping windows haptic button doesnt show start screen, pressing lock button does not immediately turn off screen.
448 MB is the same size as the paging file on my Surface RT. In practice, despite heavy use of things like third-party desktop apps and games, I've almost never needed it. I keep a relatively large number of tabs open in IE - it's using 236MB right now, by far the largest of any given program although spread across multiple processes - and have never had the issues you describe, either.
I suspect your Surface may be defective. It's possible that there's some bad RAM - on x86 I'd tell you to run memcheck - or that your Flash memory (SSD) is defective and this is messing up the pagefile. Either one would be covered under warranty.
Are you running low on free space on ssd?
Could possibly be a bum app. I can't recall the app but my RT got very flaky after loading an app from the store and required a wipe to get back to normal.
Yes last night as I was attempting to record the situation with my phone for a youtube post. I noticed I had like 150MB free space. So I immediately removed 2 apps which free'd up about 1GB. It was late and I was mad, and needed to go to bed, but I suspect that was the main problem. And I'll know for sure when I get home from work today.
As I recall the windows folder contained about 7GB and my program data folder also had about 7G, My Documents and downloads is <100MB so that's not anything to worry about, and recycle bin is empty.
32GB is supposed to work out to around 29 something after marketing math right? So then between those two folders, <15GB is utilized and so lets say 4GB for recovery partition (I think its a little less if I remember) that's 19... so where's the other 10?
I am definitely going to delete the backup partition after I make a backup on a usb drive or something. Any other tricks to free up space? Disk clean up is only really good for about 50MB.
I wish there was an app in the market place kind of like TreeSize Free, would be handy for us Surface RT folks.
My device is having absolutely the same issue. Must be a bad update.
The 32GB Surface RT OS install footprint is something like 7GB or so. Add in the recovery partition and you end up with a lot less than 32GB available. This was actually published info (and MS took a beating over it).
Part of the large install footprint is due to things like Office being included. You really can't compare it to Android or iOS, either; Windows RT has things like Powershell and Management Console and tons of other power-user / admin stuff. It's intended to be usable for a lot more than just a platform to launch apps on, which is most of what you get from Android or iOS. Love it or hate it, that's the way it is.
Stick an microSD card in the slot and move anything that can be moved over onto it. Definitely also copy off the recovery partition and then recover the space it was using up.
So as I mentioned last night I removed a couple of apps for 1gb of space. Then I guess there was a system update and now I'm back down to like 500MB. I deleted a couple more apps and somehow I'm down to 400MB.
I'm still getting this ****ty behavior. Not quite as bad as it was, but still not an experience I would recommend to anyone.
RobbieRobski said:
Yes last night as I was attempting to record the situation with my phone for a youtube post. I noticed I had like 150MB free space. So I immediately removed 2 apps which free'd up about 1GB. It was late and I was mad, and needed to go to bed, but I suspect that was the main problem. And I'll know for sure when I get home from work today.
As I recall the windows folder contained about 7GB and my program data folder also had about 7G, My Documents and downloads is <100MB so that's not anything to worry about, and recycle bin is empty.
32GB is supposed to work out to around 29 something after marketing math right? So then between those two folders, <15GB is utilized and so lets say 4GB for recovery partition (I think its a little less if I remember) that's 19... so where's the other 10?
I am definitely going to delete the backup partition after I make a backup on a usb drive or something. Any other tricks to free up space? Disk clean up is only really good for about 50MB.
I wish there was an app in the market place kind of like TreeSize Free, would be handy for us Surface RT folks.
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Did you manage to get more space?
As you say, we have 29 GB on SSD. 4 GB is in restore and EFI partitions leaving us with 25GB.
If I select everything in C:/ it takes 12 GB. I have 9 GB free. So I have 25 GB - 12 GB - 9 GB = 4GB of unkown space. The page file is ~2 GB on my surface leaving me with 2 GB of unkown space. If this where a Windows 8 machine I would say that those 2 GB was used for hibernating but I don't think that Windows RT has hibernating enabled.
Maybe Properties in Explorer isn't 100% accurate.
When you used Disk clean, did you also clean System files? Update backups can get large.
wardh said:
Did you manage to get more space?
As you say, we have 29 GB on SSD. 4 GB is in restore and EFI partitions leaving us with 25GB.
If I select everything in C:/ it takes 12 GB. I have 9 GB free. So I have 25 GB - 12 GB - 9 GB = 4GB of unkown space. The page file is ~2 GB on my surface leaving me with 2 GB of unkown space. If this where a Windows 8 machine I would say that those 2 GB was used for hibernating but I don't think that Windows RT has hibernating enabled.
Maybe Properties in Explorer isn't 100% accurate.
When you used Disk clean, did you also clean System files? Update backups can get large.
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That 2GB is probably in folders that you don't have read access to by default (Ex. WindowsApps)
If I try to press the button for clean system files, 1GB in error reporting, 500MB temporary files, 400MB windows update cleanup, some other misc stuff so 2.01in total... after cleaning I only had 1.38 free, wtf is up with this math. I already had 450MB free... deleting 2GB should have netted me 2.4GB, not 1.38
I got a message earlier saying it couldn't activate windows, it seemed fix itself.
RobbieRobski said:
If I try to press the button for clean system files, 1GB in error reporting, 500MB temporary files, 400MB windows update cleanup, some other misc stuff so 2.01in total... after cleaning I only had 1.38 free, wtf is up with this math. I already had 450MB free... deleting 2GB should have netted me 2.4GB, not 1.38
I got a message earlier saying it couldn't activate windows, it seemed fix itself.
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Didn't Windows reserve more MB to page file?
I have totally 14GB of files ( Including page file and system folders ). However Surface reports that I have only 2GB free instead if 14 ( 28-14=14). I did disk clean-up for all users and I manually cleared some data... I can't even do a refresh because I don't have enough free space.
TwIsTeD78 said:
I have totally 14GB of files ( Including page file and system folders ). However Surface reports that I have only 2GB free instead if 14 ( 28-14=14). I did disk clean-up for all users and I manually cleared some data... I can't even do a refresh because I don't have enough free space.
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I'm guessing that it's because what netham45 said. We don't have read access to folders like WindowsApps. You have some huge games or something like that installed?
I think you need to try "refresh" your Surface. If this happen again then it maybe defected.
wardh said:
I'm guessing that it's because what netham45 said. We don't have read access to folders like WindowsApps. You have some huge games or something like that installed?
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Not really. I checked my apps and they are taking around 3.5GB all together. Still I'm missing a lot.
I can't refresh as I don't have free space. Looks like I need to totally reinstall.
Hi, I found 10GB sitting in C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\INetCache
Seems that clean-up wizard does not clean those.
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I have cleaned up this directory for the two user I have and I gained 13GB free space.
TwIsTeD78 said:
Hi, I found 10GB sitting in C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\INetCache
Seems that clean-up wizard does not clean those.
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I have cleaned up this directory for the two user I have and I gained 13GB free space.
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Did your tablet fine now? Or still slow or crashing?
With 1.48GB free, YouTube is still crashing me and making my tablet unresponsive.
I checked C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC
Properties on this folder says 4.8 GB. But inside are only 2 folders, Microsoft and Temp, properties for those 2 folders says 3.18MB...
Control Panel> Folder Options> View has show hidden folders enabled
If I type \inetcache it will open the folder for me and properties for all docs in folder shows 1.49G
If I try to del C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\INetCache
It prompts yes or no, but then I get access denied.
In the desktop though I could select all and shift delete, to free up MOST of those files. but there's still 2.87GB hidden somewhere when I view properties of the AC folder.
I looked at some of the contents and these folders and its just like thumbails, js files, various cache (obviously as folder name implies)
I've resorted to deleting 2 more infrequently used games, so now I have 2.26GB free... haven't yet removed backup partition.
Files shouldnt cause the tablet to lock up like that, plenty of room left for the page file there.
I think your device is most likely faulty. Vendor should replace.
My whatsapp folder is a humongous 527 MBs and "databases" alone take around 350 MBs. For a phone (GT-S7562 galaxy S duos) with a usable internal memory of 1.6 GB without the ability to move apps (Probably because samsung developers thought it's cool to make people manage apps in that limited space and see them scratch their head to blead ) this is a huge chunk of memory the app is taking.
Is there a way to reduce the size of databases folders? I am amused because it's just text, and all of my conversation cannot in any way sum up to 350 MBs. Does everyone have this sized whatsapp database folder?
Though I am rooted and I have link2sd, but I don't want to move whatsapp, because in any case my sd card is removed I will not be able to use it, which is obviously one important app.
gurtejgps said:
My whatsapp folder is a humongous 527 MBs and "databases" alone take around 350 MBs. For a phone (GT-S7562 galaxy S duos) with a usable internal memory of 1.6 GB without the ability to move apps (Probably because samsung developers thought it's cool to make people manage apps in that limited space and see them scratch their head to blead ) this is a huge chunk of memory the app is taking.
Is there a way to reduce the size of databases folders? I am amused because it's just text, and all of my conversation cannot in any way sum up to 350 MBs. Does everyone have this sized whatsapp database folder?
Though I am rooted and I have link2sd, but I don't want to move whatsapp, because in any case my sd card is removed I will not be able to use it, which is obviously one important app.
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You can do is remove all db files..
Now go in whatsapp.. Backup your messages.. The unwanted backups will be deleted and present one will be there without taking space..
Cooked and tested solution:
The real solution for this is to stop the application from doing backups, which by default occur daily at 02:00 (AM).
Just deleting the databases solves nothing because WhatsApp will continue creating a new dated copy every day and only delete the “outdated” ones: it keeps seven copies.
Since this behaviour adjustment has no official support, here's the solution: the /WhatsApp/Databases folder must be “disabled” for this to happen, which is as easy as deleting the folder and then creating a file named “Databases”.
You can still enjoy a Google Drive backup from time to time this way with this simple procedure:
Rename your “Databases” file to something else, like “Databasex”, for example.
Open WhatsApp and go into Settings/Chats/Backup menu. Tap on “Save”. It may take a nice while.
Open your file explorer again and redo the trick: delete the re-created “Databases” folder and give back this name to your “Databasex” file.
This can alleviate a lot of storage use for certain fellows.
Cheers
Barkuti said:
The real solution for this is to stop the application from doing backups, which by default occur daily at 02:00 (AM).
Just deleting the databases solves nothing because WhatsApp will continue creating a new dated copy every day and only delete the “outdated” ones: it keeps seven copies.
Since this behaviour adjustment has no official support, here's the solution: the /WhatsApp/Databases folder must be “disabled” for this to happen, which is as easy as deleting the folder and then creating a file named “Databases”.
You can still enjoy a Google Drive backup from time to time this way with this simple procedure:
Rename your “Databases” file to something else, like “Databasex”, for example.
Open your file explorer again and redo the trick: delete the re-created “Databases” folder and give back this name to your “Databasex” file.
This can alleviate a lot of storage use for certain fellows.
Cheers
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Excellent! I have save almost 900 MB :good:
My Nexus S (GT-I9020)keeps giving me an "insufficient storage" message. Particularly when updating "Google Newstand".
So I have cleared out lots of Photos and music and stuff. Cleared caches. Moved stuff to SD etc. Still keeps happening.
So while connected to my PC by USB, I ran "Treesize" on it, and it tells me that I have 9.87Gb free. What is the problem?
Of the few Gigabytes that are used, by far the biggest folder is called "DCIM", I know that this is where pictures are stored, but I have cleared out loads of photos. The largest file in there is called " thumbdata", at 966Mb by far the largest file on the entire phone. What is this waste of space? Can I delete it?
It seems that whenever I take a pic. with my phone, it is stored there, then a little while later a second copy appears thanks to Google upload or something, but the new copy is not as high res as the original. I do want Google to upload my photos back to my PC, but why does it have to send them back to the phone? How do I stop this? I spend too much time deleting copies of pics that are already on the phone in original. I think that the thumbnails folder is a result of all this.
The biggest memory hog after DCIM is Clockwork Mod, within it a folder called "blobs". What is it and can I delete it?
The Next biggest memory hog is called "TWRP". What is it? Can I delete it?
Is there a guide to what all these things mean and do, for us learners?
monkey shoulder said:
My Nexus S (GT-I9020)keeps giving me an "insufficient storage" message. Particularly when updating "Google Newstand".
So I have cleared out lots of Photos and music and stuff. Cleared caches. Moved stuff to SD etc. Still keeps happening.
So while connected to my PC by USB, I ran "Treesize" on it, and it tells me that I have 9.87Gb free. What is the problem?
Of the few Gigabytes that are used, by far the biggest folder is called "DCIM", I know that this is where pictures are stored, but I have cleared out loads of photos. The largest file in there is called " thumbdata", at 966Mb by far the largest file on the entire phone. What is this waste of space? Can I delete it?
It seems that whenever I take a pic. with my phone, it is stored there, then a little while later a second copy appears thanks to Google upload or something, but the new copy is not as high res as the original. I do want Google to upload my photos back to my PC, but why does it have to send them back to the phone? How do I stop this? I spend too much time deleting copies of pics that are already on the phone in original. I think that the thumbnails folder is a result of all this.
The biggest memory hog after DCIM is Clockwork Mod, within it a folder called "blobs". What is it and can I delete it?
The Next biggest memory hog is called "TWRP". What is it? Can I delete it?
Is there a guide to what all these things mean and do, for us learners?
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how many apps in your device? u can check your remaining storage at setting>apps>downloaded...if the remaining is under 100mb...u need to delete some apps to update some apps...
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cshnz said:
how many apps in your device? u can check your remaining storage at setting>apps>downloaded...if the remaining is under 100mb...u need to delete some apps to update some apps...
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I have 51 countable icons for apps, 102 in the list of "All apps." which includes all sorts of android stuff.
Under "downloaded" (36 apps) internal storage shows 784Mb used, 224Mb free.
Under USB it shows 3.4Gb used, 9.9Gb free. Aha! so that's what Treesize is looking at.
I get it, my 1Gb of internal storage is being used up. I will try and move more apps to USB.
Is that it?
also check your system partition, google apps often go there, if you're not rooted you wont be able to free space on it, the system partition is about 500MB large so it gets easily filled up, it contains your android rom and system apps
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monkey shoulder said:
I have 51 countable icons for apps, 102 in the list of "All apps." which includes all sorts of android stuff.
Under "downloaded" (36 apps) internal storage shows 784Mb used, 224Mb free.
Under USB it shows 3.4Gb used, 9.9Gb free. Aha! so that's what Treesize is looking at.
I get it, my 1Gb of internal storage is being used up. I will try and move more apps to USB.
Is that it?
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yes i think you must move some apps to sd, or delete it.... hope it will work