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*** How do you delete a nandroid backup ? ***

Ended up making two nandroid back ups & just want to delete one of them for the sake of space on my sd card. Is there a way to do this "without" using rom manager ?? Thanks

I'm assuming your talking about the backups from CWM. You can use any file manager such as ES File Manager. The backup is stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
You can also connect your phone to PC using USB and delete from there.

Gotcha thanx bro

Plug it into your computer and select Disk drive then double click that drive and then double click clockwork then backups.

[Q] Accidentally unzipped CM10 then placed on root, how do i remove these files?

Since i'm still on stock and I was supposed to place the rar file on the root, not the extracted files.. How do I remove all the extracted files??? backing up from my restore wont work because I did the backup after I placed all the files on. DOH!

rybednarski said:
Since i'm still on stock and I was supposed to place the rar file on the root, not the extracted files.. How do I remove all the extracted files??? backing up from my restore wont work because I did the backup after I placed all the files on. DOH!
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With root explorer app of your choice. Or Odin back to stock.

in the CM10 rar is has 2 folders: system and meta-inf
When i copied it to the phone the system folder merged with system folder on my phone, along with all the other deeper folders.
So so i have to go through an manually select ALL the files that merged and arent supposed to be there since im still running my stock rom.
That's essentially my question.

Think you need to Odin stock firmware .tar image to format and restore system partition unless those folders are still intact and show as system/system and system/meta which is possible. They need to run the binary to split the files inside the folders. You only copied the folders to the root. Should not have split them up. I could be wrong. Not sure how you copied them to system root. Should have went to SD root. Can't access system root from PC via USB. Would have to put there with file explorer.

Download the original zip, explore all its contents and remove each one individually.

annoyingduck said:
Download the original zip, explore all its contents and remove each one individually.
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They should just be sitting on the sd card. There are no original system, meta ect folders on sd card to merge with. Has me confused. Can't access system root from PC without using ADB. Also if on SD root would not affect anything and would not be in backup. Just delete the main folders that were extracted from the zip from the SD card.

Agreed

i have no sd card. I installed abd then moved then extracted zip to the root of my internal memory. ATM i have installed CM10 and have no issues except for a huge chunk of my memory is gone.. if i delete the system folder from the root is it going to mess up a bunch of other things??

rybednarski said:
i have no sd card. I installed abd then moved then extracted zip to the root of my internal memory. ATM i have installed CM10 and have no issues except for a huge chunk of my memory is gone.. if i delete the system folder from the root is it going to mess up a bunch of other things??
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As long as it is on internal memory (SD) and not in the system partition should be no problem. If you mounted system in adb it is on or in the partition and not sure what to do except odin to reformat the partition. Some AOSP roms report the memory available wrong.

But he should have no issue finding it regardless of aosp storage issues. Op has no external, so he's either mnt/sdcard, internal, or usb storage. Emmc is out of play. Files should be clear as day. If you can put them on your root, you can take them off.
Agree with prdog, just Odin back if your unsure. But completely fixable.....
If I were you I'd give it more of a try without Odin just for the educational value.

[Q] Help with TWRP

Flashed a ROM and the ROM moved the all files in the root of my storage to a folder within a series of subfolders.
This is bad because my TWRP folder containing my backups was in the root of my storage.
But of course things can't just work how you'd expect, so my computer and phone refuse to copy the TWRP folder back to where it belongs.
My computer refuses to copy the files "data.ext4.win000"
There seems to be nothing I can do about this. My phone wont copy it and my computer won't either.
However, I am wondering if there is a way to make TWRP restore from a backup that is not where it belongs.
Whenever I go to restore, it doesn't give me an option to search elsewhere for my backups. Yet for some reason I am allowed to install a .zip from wherever I want.
Is there some sort of terminal command I can do within TWRP to make this work? Thank you.

Impossible to find my backup from Nandroid and Super Backup on PC

Hi,
I tried so much alternative for make a backup of my cell and to transfer it on my PC, but i dont see it when i browse from my PC. Nandroid, super backup and titanium are all configured to save backup to storage/emulated/0 but i can only find titatium save from my PC. Nandroid and super backup files cant be find
Im seriously out of idea
Thx

Check /data/media/0

I dont have this path when i browse from my PC
The only way for see my backup is when i did it from Recovery(philz recovery). I can find it in: /clockworkmod/backup
But the backup have a wrong date and time name

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Mini Franki said:
Hi,
I tried so much alternative for make a backup of my cell and to transfer it on my PC, but i dont see it when i browse from my PC. Nandroid, super backup and titanium are all configured to save backup to storage/emulated/0 but i can only find titatium save from my PC. Nandroid and super backup files cant be find
Im seriously out of idea
Thx
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rootSU said:
Check /data/media/0
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Read what maestro write. You have to use root explorer. It is in your phone's root directory.

I know where is my backup on my cell with file explorer. This is not my problem. The problem is i dont find it from my pc. I want to take my nandroid backup and to put it on my computer.

Adb push it to your pc
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ldubs said:
Adb push it to your pc
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Ummm that's adb pull actually. You push to the phone and pull from it.
OP: Just use a root explorer and make a copy of the file someplace your comp sees. Copy it over to your comp with MTP then delete it.

Thx that work great when i move it to an other folder. But i dont understand why i dont see it from my computer in clockworkmod/backup when i see it in file explorer
EDIT: Now i can see it in clockworkmod/backup after i moved back it.... Very strange

Mini Franki said:
Thx that work great when i move it to an other folder. But i dont understand why i dont see it from my computer in clockworkmod/backup when i see it in file explorer
EDIT: Now i can see it in clockworkmod/backup after i moved back it.... Very strange
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Internal Storage on the Nexus 5 is /data/media/0, also what /sdcard is symlinked to. This is what is accessed via MTP.
CWM is outdated and uses the legacy location of /data/media/clockworkmod (note the lack of /0).
Therefore you cannot see it while connected to a PC, because you're viewing /data/media/0, not /data/media. It's also why it shows up on your PC when you copy it to another folder, its moved from /data/media/clockworkmod to /data/media/0/clockworkmod (but then CWM won't see it).

With nandroid app, you can decide where you want to make your backup. I tried /data/media/0 and storage/emulated/0 but i dont see it on my PC. Only in my file explorer from my phone. I can only see it on my pc when i move it to an other folder and when i move it back in /data/media/0(i move it with file explorer)
That what a found strange. Anyway, that workaround work so ill use it in the futur
thx guys

I have a rooted phone but i have a folder about 19gb says sdcardbackup what is this

I have a rooted phone but i have a folder about 19gb says sdcardbackup what is this? is this a backup part of the note5? Is so how do i turn this off and delete the folder? I uses TWRP and already have a backup of my phone.

mvaughn12 said:
I have a rooted phone but i have a folder about 19gb says sdcardbackup what is this? is this a backup part of the note5? Is so how do i turn this off and delete the folder? I uses TWRP and already have a backup of my phone.
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You probably used one of the Samsung transfer apps to sinc everything from your old phone to your new phone, correct?
It backed up everything from the external sd card on your old phone to that folder.
To get rid of it, just delete it with your favorite file manager (Root Explorer). You should still have everything on your external sd card.

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