Hi,
I am kinda curious to know where does the downloaded OTA update in mi4i gets stored. In case of my Redmi 1s it was stored in download folder. But in Mi4i I do not see it.
The thing is my 12 GB of available space is almost complete and I need to free up soem space. So looking for the unwanted files to delete.
So please help.
BTW I hv rooted my MI4i.
I think the folder is named downloaded_rom
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Hi all,
Can't seem to find an exact answer to my question in the forums. I want to start flashing CM nightlies or at least the latest stable version as I am currently running M2. My device is a VZW SGS3. My problem is that I am almost out of internal storage after backing up touchwiz and my CM10 M2. The clockworkmod folder is taking up almost 5 gigs of memory. Is it safe to move this folder to an external sd card? If I do move it over, would I have to move it back every time I want to restore a backup or access my backups/blobs in Rom Manager? Also, when moving files in Root Explorer is there a way to move them without pasting them? Or is it best to just paste then delete the original file and repeat as needed?
Thanks a ton!
Hi,
I have one Nexus 4 phone with customer room. It is 8G phone so I want to save my internal sdcards for some personal data.
I saw there are too many many many folder in directory "data/media/blobs" of root.
The name folder is 000 to FFF or some thing like that. they are too much folder so I can find out how many there.
My phone spend about 2G for "data/media/blobs" folder.
My questions are :
1. What is the purpose of folder data/media/blobs and its' sub folder?
2. Can I remove data/media/blobs folder?
Thanks for your help.:good:
Hi, you better don't delete anything in your blobs folder. Starting from CWM6, it makes incremental backups and your backup files point to these files. These are a critical part of your backup.
Heya guys,
this is mostly a copy of a thread I created in a device-specific forum (original thread), but since nobody was able to answer the question there and considering it doesn't seem to be device-specific after all, I figured I'd go ahead and ask here as well. The copy & paste part begins here, with slight modifications:
A few days ago, I found that I was in dire need of some more free space on my Samsung Galaxy S4 / GT-I9505's internal storage and found that only the contents of /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails were taking up space. After a while of trying to get rid of those files that kept creating themselves again, I followed some advice I read on an Android forum: I deleted the contents of the .thumbnail folder, went to Settings -> Apps and cleared the data of the Gallery and Media Storage apps, respectively, before rebooting the phone.
The contents did disappear for good, but neither Total Commander nor the list of installed apps in the settings nor the Storage summary in the settings showed any different amount of free space than before. To make matters worse, the number didn't even change after I found and deleted about 1 GB of files left by an already uninstalled app, i.e. it seems to be stuck on that value. At the same time, SD Maid tells me that I should have a good 5 GB of free space more than the system is showing. Neither restarting nor wiping the cache and dalvik cache helped.
My rooted GT-I9505 is running this unofficial port of AOKP 4.3, Milestone 1, and version 6.15.6 of PhilZ/CWM Advanced. I'm not sure whether there's more information I might need to provide, other than that the size of the thumbnails files apparently exploded (about 4 GB) when I moved quite a lot of data and obb folders to my external storage using FolderMount.
I didn't find any information about this kind of problem anywhere and am afraid I messed up so badly that I might need to reflash...or worse. Do you have an idea how I can try to fix it?
You could try installing Disable Service and forcing the media indexing service to never run.
gordon1986 said:
You could try installing Disable Service and forcing the media indexing service to never run.
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Thanks for the input! That sounds like a plan, but I'm not really sure whether I'm doing it right. I got the app, figured the media indexing service had to be found in the Media Storage app's entry, but I only found "MediaScannerService" and "MtpService" there. Since I try to be more careful now, I'd rather not deactivate any of those without being sure that it is what I am aiming for.
So, long story short: Is either of those the media indexing service or do I have to look somewhere else?
Best thing to do is delete the .thumbnails folder in DCIM folder. After this create a new file with the name .thumbnails in the DCIM folder.
Note: You have too delete .thumbnails FOLDER and create .thumbnails FILE. You can use es file explorer to do this.
It is based on the simple principle that in Linux ext file system a file and folder cannot have the same name.
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osamaanjum said:
Best thing to do is delete the .thumbnails folder in DCIM folder. After this create a new file with the name .thumbnails in the DCIM folder.
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While I wasn't sure it would help, I tried what you suggested. Alas, it didn't work; the .thumbnails folder is empty without freeing the space taken by its former contents since I did what I described in my original post, after all. However, should I manage to fix this problem with a reflash, I suppose I'll do just that, replacing the folder with an empty file of the same name. Thanks.
It works for me.
I 've uploaded the image of DCIM directory (folder). In place of .thumbnails folder you can notice .thumbnails file.
Guyz this is my first post on xda developer and I am neewbie in this tech stuff
But I found our on this website that deleting .thumbnails in DCIM will give additional space
I also found out that its a temporary fix and android will again recreate it
I have a YU yureka
Both my internal and external sd has .thumbnails folder with sizes of both over 1 GB
I deleted them n made an empty folder with same name but I didn't gave any space I was expecting and now .thumbnails is empty as I created
Plss help I really need to make space...
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Guyz this is my first post on xda developer and I am neewbie in this tech stuff
But I found our on this website that deleting .thumbnails in DCIM will give additional space
I also found out that its a temporary fix and android will again recreate it
I have a YU yureka
Both my internal and external sd has .thumbnails folder with sizes of both over 1 GB
I deleted them n made an empty folder with same name but I didn't gave any space I was expecting and now .thumbnails is empty as I created
Plss help I really need to make space...
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use a pic backup app like picasa, then, after backed up, you can delete all your pics and thumbnails and gain whatever space they were taking.
you will still be able to view your pics in the app, but they wont be taking up phone space unless you download them again.
hello,
I have a xiaomi redmi 9 pro phone.
rooted.
I used fstop app to move 80 photo from internal memory to sdcard. sdcard was full and the move has been done and create 0kb file in sdcard.
Photo from inernal memory have been deleted by the app.
I used a lot of app to look for my lost photo but I don't find stuff. I found a lot of "not deleted photo". I don't find any usefull tool that could ignore not deleted files (whatapp and my personnal photo are quite huge, more than 4000 photos).
also I'm surprised not to find a lot of thumbnail because there should be a lot of thumbnail on my phone and also a lot of deleted thumbnail.
I have the date and name of deleted photo isn't there a clever tool that exist and could find them ?
using tool like diskdigger or undeleter that need root access, I don't find stuff, even when looking in a lot of volume. What I'm missing ?
My dream tool :
look for really deleted file
if there are real file : filter by folder, by filename, date, etc.
do you have some tips for me ?
If you have rooted your phone and used several Android recovery tools, but none of them have scanned your lost photos. It is possible that they have been overwritten by new files. The overwritten files cannot be recovered.
That's what happens when you MOVE a file from one drive ( internal sdcard ) to another drive ( external sdcard ):
The file contents are copied in full to some location on the target disk drive.
The directory of the target folder on the target drive is updated to include the new file copied.
The directory of the source folder where the file used to reside is updated to no longer list the file. This causes the actual data for that file on the source drive to be released and marked as unused space.