Since I can't post in the q & a forum I am posting here but mods feel free to move it. So I have a wm6.1 device and a Mac computer and I regularly send files, like cab and music files with out an issue. However, today I noticed that I send a music file like usual and the file is no where to be found on the devices however space about the same size as the file is being taken up. So I send another two files(one music and one cab file) with out an issue at all. Then later on I send a cab file, but I don't see it on the device even though space is being take up. This may have happened prior to this, but I didn't realize it or something. So how can A) regain that space by deleting those files not showing up, or B) find the files that are not showing up and use them as I intended to. I am loosing space because of this. Option of last(and I mean last) resort is a hard rest which I don't like to do. Thank you....
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Since I can't post in the q & a forum I am posting here but mods feel free to move it. So I have a wm6.1 device and a Mac computer and I regularly send files, like cab and music files with out an issue. However, today I noticed that I send a music file like usual and the file is no where to be found on the devices however space about the same size as the file is being taken up. So I send another two files(one music and one cab file) with out an issue at all. Then later on I send a cab file, but I don't see it on the device even though space is being take up. This may have happened prior to this, but I didn't realize it or something. So how can A) regain that space by deleting those files not showing up, or B) find the files that are not showing up and use them as I intended to. I am loosing space because of this. Option of last(and I mean last) resort is a hard rest which I don't like to do. Thank you....
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get a good file browser and search for the missing files. You may want to use a wild card search (*.cab,*.mp3)
if you still can not find them look in the folders in /Windows and /Temp or or equivalent on the device
well i am using total commader so I dunno how good that is or not. Not to mention I have done what you suggested and even searched for files added with in the last 3 days and nothing on all fronts but yet the sapce is being taken up by something that I can't seem to find on my device. Memory maid was no help either(granted I only did a clean up). But thank you.
have you tried using the default file explorer?
So I searched and searched and never found a definitive answer on how to keep your media files from being automatically deleted off of SDCards on reboots. There were guesses but no report back on what actually worked.
I noticed after it happened about 5 times. You copy files (m4v, mkv, others) to your SDCard and after you reboot they are gone. This happens on Vegan as well as others I had read.
TLDR:
To keep this from happening, in the root of your SDCards (For me /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/sdcard2), create a DIRECTORY called .nomedia You cannot use Windows to do this, you must do it on a linux/unix machine or from iFilemanager,Astro or another file manager type application.
I haven't had trouble since.
I have also had success with the .nomedia file placed in directories containing media. However if this .nomedia directory can ward off the indexing for my entire SD card that would be even better.
.nomedia feels like having to smear blood over the door frame so the the angel of death won't take my firstborn. Unleavened bread anyone?
Several reboots now and no issues.... thank goodness I was about to chuck it through the window...
I still don't understand why some people have this issue. Is it specific to a ROM?
I have a number of AVI files and many folders of MP3s that have been on my SD card since the day I got it (4 months+).
Never had anything delete itself from there. Running VEGAnTab since the 2nd day of ownership.
I dunno, but it happened to me last night (before I found this thread). Added the directory via eStrong, buried a potato under a stump and tied a chicken foot around my neck for good measure. We'll see what happens.
Thank you for posting. This solved a major frustration of mine, but it appears to be solved now.
My media files went away for the forst time. (I was stock until yesterday.)
I added .nomedia and the files are safe, but my music players and photo viewers cannot find the files now.
Anyway to get them protected but viewable?
snowzach said:
So I searched and searched and never found a definitive answer on how to keep your media files from being automatically deleted off of SDCards on reboots. There were guesses but no report back on what actually worked.
I noticed after it happened about 5 times. You copy files (m4v, mkv, others) to your SDCard and after you reboot they are gone. This happens on Vegan as well as others I had read.
TLDR:
To keep this from happening, in the root of your SDCards (For me /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/sdcard2), create a DIRECTORY called .nomedia You cannot use Windows to do this, you must do it on a linux/unix machine or from iFilemanager,Astro or another file manager type application.
I haven't had trouble since.
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How can I creat a DIRECTORY. I used Actro and ifilemanager. I don't know where to input .nomedia. Thanks for your help.
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It work and thanks
For most of yesterday I'd been trying to figure out why my CM7 G2X won't see any sound, video, or image file on my phone's SD Card. Both the stock Gallery app, and MX Player File Browser, just didn't see any of the media in the folders on my SD Card. And the Music player saw absolutely no songs on my SD Card. And my ringtone and IM tones were messed up.
So, while playing with different settings, on MX Player, I unchecked "Respect .nomedia (Exclude a folder if ".nomedia" file exists in that folder or a parent folder". Voila! I can see videos! I can see my images and songs!
Well, I looked in the root of my SD Card and there it was - a file called ".nomedia". Strangely, the icon for that file is the same icon as ROM Manager icon. Odd. because I had just updated ROM Manager. I deleted it and saw my media files again.
Well, today I saw a new update for ROM Manager Premium. The update states "5.0.1.4 Fix bug that places .nomedia file in the wrong directory if directories are missing." Huh. I guess the "wrong directory" is a cagy way of saying it puts it in the root of your SD Card so you can't see any of your media. And I do have the proper directories that ROM Manager needs.
O.K., I updated ROM Manager. Guess what? No media files again! And that damned file ".nomedia" is right back in the root of my SD Card, same as before, with the same ROM Manager icon staring back at me.
Look, it's not enough that people like me wasted money on ROM Manager Premium because the license check always crashes. Now, the app is messing up our phones?
Hope this helps
Stupid RomManager.
Easiest way:
Connect your phone via usb (with usb debugging enabled), open a cmd window and type:
Code:
adb shell
rm /sdcard/.nomedia
adb reboot
You can do this without a PC from Terminal Emulator at Android as well, just open it and type the following.
After a reboot everything is back to normal.
Code:
rm /sdcard/.nomedia
The problem in the FileManager is, that you have to enable "show hidden files" (or sth. like that), a leading dot (".") at a filename indicates a hidden file at Linux.
But of course you can just enable that option and delete the ".nomedia" file manually as well.
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I use RootExplorer which can show hidden files... removed the .nomedia file and while some stuff showed up (gallery pics) most stuff still doesnt (all my custom notifications/ringtones and my music wont show in Ubermusic, Play Music or Winamp. I downloaded Rescan Media and ran it but still nothing.
Any suggestions?
WoodroweBones said:
I use RootExplorer which can show hidden files... removed the .nomedia file and while some stuff showed up (gallery pics) most stuff still doesnt (all my custom notifications/ringtones and my music wont show in Ubermusic, Play Music or Winamp. I downloaded Rescan Media and ran it but still nothing.
Any suggestions?
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Update your rom manager, then delete the nomedia file, then reboot! You should be alright after that!
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BigDig said:
Update your rom manager, then delete the nomedia file, then reboot! You should be alright after that!
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Fist thing I tried unfortunately
WoodroweBones said:
I use RootExplorer which can show hidden files... removed the .nomedia file and while some stuff showed up (gallery pics) most stuff still doesnt (all my custom notifications/ringtones and my music wont show in Ubermusic, Play Music or Winamp. I downloaded Rescan Media and ran it but still nothing.
Any suggestions?
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Look into your other folders on your card for ".nomedia". ROM Mangler could have placed that file in different places.
You might also want to remove the SD Card and put it in your PC, and search the entire card for ".nomedia". Make sure you only delete ".nomedia" in the folders that you want to show media.
Here is what I did...
I renamed my Music folder to "Music2" then rebooted my phone. Now after that I went into Ubermusic and started an SD Card scan but didnt wait very long (maybe 10 seconds) then went into Winamp and clicked on "Songs" and I could see it was searching. Eventually all my songs showed up so not sure if it was Winamp or Ubermusic
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Look into your other folders on your card for ".nomedia". ROM Mangler could have placed that file in different places.
You might also want to remove the SD Card and put it in your PC, and search the entire card for ".nomedia". Make sure you only delete ".nomedia" in the folders that you want to show media.
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The Galaxy Nexus doesnt have a removeable SD card but the method I used in the post above worked
I'm cross posting here because this seems to be an active thread
In some instances Media Scanner will DELETE ALL THE PICTURES ON THE SD CARD
Here is an example google bug report on the issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
When a ".nomedia" file is added to a directory that has already been scanned by the media scanner, any jpg and gif files in that directory and all sub directories will be deleted.
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I have lost a year of pictures because of this. Before you assume I am making a mistake realize that the SDcard is now connected directly to my laptop and a search of the entire drive (including subfolders) with the string *.jpg gives no results. I can post a screenshot if you like.
Rom Manager caused my pictures actually be deleted and I am using recovery tools that scan the free space to get them back
If any of you suffered as I did try this OPEN SOURCE recovery tool specifically made for recovering pictures from an SDcard - PhotoRec - CGSecurity
Here is a screenshot of my current progress
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
edit: I just realized it also broke some of my applications that stored images on the sdcard that served as part of their menu system. SCREW YOU ROM MANAGER DEVS. I will never trust anything you publish from this day forward
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I'm cross posting here because this seems to be an active thread
In some instances Media Scanner will DELETE ALL THE PICTURES ON THE SD CARD
Here is an example google bug report on the issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
I have lost a year of pictures because of this.
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Sorry to hear that. I'm running CM7 Nightly #225 and it seems CM7 fixed that bug - I tried to recreate that on my phone and it did not delete the files.
Quite strange; I was wondering why lately my phone has been weird and not reading any of my files from the SDcard. i cant find my music nor photos ive taken, but when i use rootexplorer i can find them.
Edit - thanks alot!! by deleting the .nomedia file, its all working!
How i fixed it
i used rom toolbox pro and went into the sd root.
Android > .data > .nomedia
and i deleted .nomedia and poof it worked
Thanks, had to play around with folder names and reboot, but it's working again now. I believe I have to post at least 10 times before I can thank a post though
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Ah, just had to post once and the thanks button shows up now!
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Thanks, had to play around with folder names and reboot, but it's working again now. I believe I have to post at least 10 times before I can thank a post though
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Ah, just had to post once and the thanks button shows up now!
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Back at 'cha - I gave you your first Thanks! Nice to know that only two people appreciate the work I did.
damn ROM Manager
well, this teach me to never hit the "update all" button in google play now. ONLY update apps that shows changes you need/want.
anyway, after 2 days of messing deleting .nomedia, only to have it come back at next boot and uninstalling apps that was suspect. i finally saw a thread about this.
The thread recommended: remove update/uninstall rom manager
delete .nomedia
clear data of Media Storage
reboot
this worked out perfectly for me and that damn .nomedia file hasnt come back for the past few reboots
Do not allow any apps to auto-update. And I have background data turned off all the time to save the battery.
The only time I have background data turned on is when I'm in Google Play. I always check permissions, (you MUST click "see all").
Here are the apps I have stopped updating because they suddenly want scary permissions:
Angry Birds - wants access to Google Billing Service (****!)
Camera 360 - wants ability to change WiFi state, modify passwords
Firefox - Modify global system settings, access user accounts, read sync settings
Google Translate - take photos and videos without user intervention, view available networks
YouTube - take photos and videos without user intervention, access user accounts
I'm hoping someone can help, I'm having this problem only with JB ROMs
ROM manager is not even on my phone, here's what I do in recovery
Wipe data/Factory Reset
Wipe cache partition
run dalvik-wiper.zip
reboot recovery
format /system /cache/ /data /boot AND /sdcard
reboot recovery
?? at this point this phone should have nothing on it right?
install ROM. (I have tried 5 or 6 of the JB ROMs in the Nexus S TMO develop section)
Copy over my pics and music. I install no Apps, just run gallery and it's empty, even after 2 hours.
Where does ROM manager do its damage after everything is formatted? Is it CWM that is causing the problem?
I've checked /DCIM and /Music on my sdcard backup and they don't have any .nomedia or hidden files.
where do I go next?
Thanks for the reply.
Same thing here. i have only CWM and root.
tried all kinds of stuff like format sd card new rom search and delete .nomedia
installed new rom manager now...
+quick system info shows cpu 100% and batery dies quickly (25% at night to 0 in the morning)
With sd card removed battery goes back to normal..
Today i used another phone,the old one, because of this..
It really sucks and im close to sell or smash it!
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mikrron said:
Same thing here. i have only CWM and root.
tried all kinds of stuff like format sd card new rom search and delete .nomedia
installed new rom manager now...
+quick system info shows cpu 100% and batery dies quickly (25% at night to 0 in the morning)
With sd card removed battery goes back to normal..
Today i used another phone,the old one, because of this..
It really sucks and im close to sell or smash it!
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don`t know how i did it, noe it`s working , you have to f#@&k it up a little with the sd card, Install/uninstal rom manager and nomedia files (note the nomedia wasnt placed in my gallery or music folders) , hope i don`t meet this in the future..
@mikrron, it's possible you have a bad misbehaving application. You might have a game that scans your sdcard and sends photos and other info to the game's servers. That would account for your bad battery usage.
Install the firewall DroidWall and block internet access to any application that doesn't NEED the internet to run, like cameras, most games, etc. See how much your battery life improves.
Sorry for performing necromancy on this thread but I encountered a problem. It is similar to the one described here (files can be browsed normally but no media-apps can see them. Even the settings>storage menu shows nothing on my sd card but reports that the free space is only 1.5gb out of 8gbs total.
If I fire up a file browser I can access all the files on the sd-card without a problem. I can even view the pictures with the gallery and the music app plays my music files alright, if I select the file from the browser and then use the corresponding program to deal with it.
If I just use the gallery or the music app or songbird or any other media player, they all report an empty media library. Media on the phone's internal memory can be scanned by these apps and included to their library without a problem.
After lots of searching around on the web, I found that most people that had this problem, managed to solve it by deleting some stray .nomedia files that were in their sd-cards (like you guys did in this thread).
So, I searched my sd card for those files (I know they are hidden), both through the phone's file-browser and by connecting it to my computer, and I failed to find anything. For good measure I backed all my data up, formatted the card, restored the data, cleared the media storage data and restarted my phone, all to no avail. I know that the sd-rescan apps are irrelevant here but I tried one of them anyways. It didn't help...
I should note that I have not tampered with the phone in any way (no custom roms, no rom manager, not rooted, no unlocked bootloader or anything else of that kind). Also my phone is a Sony Xperia Tipo, using android 4. Sorry if the post is out of place here... The thread seemed very relevant.
If someone has any idea about what the problem might be, I'd love to hear from them. Thank you in advance.
Is it possible that the nomedia file is in the secured android file that you cant access without su permission
All the way from mars
Hey,
Basically, left my tablet on the side, and it randomly restarted. I then later noticed that all of my Snotes had disappeared and cannot find them with the file manager app either.
Is there any way to restore these!?
Thanks in advance
if youre rooted you can try this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEwNCwiZmFocmJvdC5hcHBzLnVuZGVsZXRlIl0.
Not rooted unfortunately, thanks though. Just disappointed that this can happen with unmodified, stock firmware on the flagship app for the device.
Shall be exporting important notes as pdf's and syncing with dropbox in future.
This should not have happened. However, I recommend DropSync for synching your notes with Dropbox. Much better than what comes with SNotes.
So nothing in the SNotes folder on your SDCard?
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They would be in mnt/sdcard folder under SNotes
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mitchellvii said:
This should not have happened. However, I recommend DropSync for synching your notes with Dropbox. Much better than what comes with SNotes.
So nothing in the SNotes folder on your SDCard?
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They would be in mnt/sdcard folder under SNotes
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Only thing in the 'S Note' folder is init.txt.
Totally agree with you about DropSync, Using that with ezPDF reader and it works great.
You can search your sdcard for *.snb files and see if they somehow got misplaced (although quite unlikely). I just can't see how the tablet would have wiped your files unless they weren't saved properly in the first place.
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I actully lost a few of mine right after the 1st update, so i understand your grief. If its not in the snotes or export snotes folder i think you are sol.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Plug in ur note run recuva don't check noting on the first screen next screen I believe is the file type if not the file type then it's the location if it is the location pick the notes drive if it's the file type choose all after that enable deep scan and let it do its thing once done it will say what you have if it's a green dot you can save it some yellow dots are saveable a red dot well means no if you need more help pm me I'm home after 7pm est
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I forgot one thing this program is good to get back the pics or videos or documents you have lost back as long as what ever you are using ie: thumb drive or sim card was not reformatted
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You can recover deleted files from android phone and tablet with android data recovery software, see this solution: http://goo.gl/bFNQx
hope this helps.
my notes wanish to
This is second time I experiencing this. This time I lost many notes. Started snote, message syncing apeared and kaboom, no notes at all.
I am more and more dissapointed with this tablet every day. This is even worse than windows. Not serious working tool at all.
Always back up
You know Samsung backs s-notes up by default to Your Samsung link account. So look for the link icon in your app drawer . You could be lucky enough to find them.
But i Own a Synology Disk Station.I Use a app from the app store called DS Cloud to backup my s- notes. SO i created a sub folder in the s note directory called my notes. then i sync that folder to my disk station. I do this on my note phone and note tablet.if you have two note devices You can NOT Sync the s- note home directory or you will corrupt the temples as it will sync them across your devices. Learned this the Hard way..
I also sync them to google drive as well Just in case. I use s note for onsite measurements and estimates for Construction Projects . as well as use it to track them as they progress. So i Can NOT take any chances on loosing my notes.
Good Luck with preventing it from happening again . I will watch my backups more closely from now on to insure im always backed up..
Happened to me too
This just happened to me too! I was concerned that I was getting so many notes in snotes, and they are super important, so I setup my Samsung account and set my note3 to sync the snotes... tonight they all are gone!!! I did the chat on Samsung's site and they said there is no way to retrieve them. I'm going to try the undelete options on my sdcard with Easus Data Recovery, hopefully that directory can be recovered.
Updated: Figured out what happened. I had snote installed on my PC which was syncing as well. The default file location was in "My Documents". I moved the documents location from my internal ssd raid0 to my internal 1tb, but it didn't update in the PC snote application. So I updated the path in options to point to the new docments location, and all of the snote files were in there, and synced back to my samsung account, and then back to my phone.
I got lucky. Going to be putting another backup in place for them now.
I had mine back up to Google
I thought I had mine back upain to Google but I can't find them anywhere... this is was deleting folders from my files I checked that they were empty and was deleting away then all 50 of my notes were gone.
My work depends on those notes. This should not have happened, I am in denial that they are gone. Are they not cached or something... it's after 4 am and I won't get sleep till I figure this out
mitchellvii said:
This should not have happened. However, I recommend DropSync for synching your notes with Dropbox. Much better than what comes with SNotes.
So nothing in the SNotes folder on your SDCard?
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They would be in mnt/sdcard folder under SNotes
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it backs up to Samsung if you had it set up
~Possible Solution~ This Worked For Me! cant hurt to try it
Hi everyone, i know this is a old post, but i want to post anyway in case someone runs across this forum as i just had the issue happen a few days ago.
I have a solution that worked for me as I was as frustrated as everybody else sounds.
I hope this works for you too...I may if a update messed with your notes as mine did.
* What I did is go to Application manager / SNote /
then I uninstalled UPDATES
When you reopen S Notes it may act as if you are brand new but don't worry about that,
Open your S Note application/go to all notes/import /from Samsung account
and if your data happens to be somewhere other than your Samsung account be sure to import from there, for instance your Google account, etc...
I got all my 56 notes back :good:
good luck :fingers-crossed:
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