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[Q] Help locating a 0KB jpeg on sd card?!

Hi all,
At one point I transferred a pic from my dropbox to my sd card. I have long removed the file but in gallery it shows the pic as a 0kb file and I can set it as wallpaper but there is no option to delete it and the info doesn't locate it anywhere on the sd. I've used root explorer.. show hidden files on my mac, I just can't seem to locate whatever remains, how do I find and get rid fo it without having to format my sd section of my Nexus S?
cheers in advance!

[Q] Cant delete file on external sd card

Hi,
I have a 32gb micro sd card which has some video files on it from my in car camera, i use the tablt to viw the files back while on the road and need to delete the files when the card gets too full, i am unable to delete the files from my transformer, just get a permission denied error, i check the file information and it has -R- permissions. i put the micro sd cardinto my galaxy s2 and i am able to delete the files no problem.
Is there something i missing here? is there something i need to turn on to be able to delete these files on the transformer? the directory the files are in isnt write protected, i can create new files and folders, i just cant delete these video files for some reason.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.

[GUIDE]Install games bigger than your free internal memory

First of all, clarification:
1.There's a lot of guides showing how to bind large games' .obb files and their respective folders/directories to external sd card. This guide will show you how to install these games even if they are bigger than your internal memory. For example, you got 4 Gb internal SD, on ROM goes 2.5 Gb, and for all your apps, pictures and videos goes 1.5 Gb. It fills really fast, so if you want some HD game, say FIFA 14, you can't install it. Here my guide jumps in.​2.When a program binds game's .obb data directory (if you have enough memory free on internal SD for the game to install in the first place), its .obb file is indeed transfered on external SD card, but often in memory status there's a bug which still shows it on your internal memory and it is full, but it is not case here.​
You need:
1.Rooted phone, Install from unknown sources allowed
2.FolderMount installed (didn't try with Directory Bind yet)
3.Root file manager like Root explorer installed
4.Game you want to install with .apk +data folder downloaded on your PC
5.Write down or somehow mark names of game's data folder and it's .obb file
So, let's start..
1.Find out where should be game's data folder (in most cases it's Android/obb folder)
2.Copy apk on SD root and folder with .obb files on external SD where it should be installed by default
* make Android/obb folder on external SD if you didn't already​* for real if it was to be installed on internal memory the path would be: storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/yourgamefolderwithobb​3.Once copying is done, navigate with your root browser on INTERNAL SD, and make folder named exactly as your game, the one that you wrote down, on exact location,for example storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/ and inthere you make this yourgamefolderwithobb folder (case sensitive!)
4.Now, you get inside this folder that you made with your root file manager, here it is ˝yourgamefolderwithobb˝ without quotes and inthere you make new file named exactly as your game's .obb file, with .obb extension, and save it, for example ˝main.128yourgame.obb˝ without quotes - case sensitive
* if for any reason you can't save your new file, then you make it on your external SD's root and copy where it belongs on internal SD, and if even this isn't possible, then make this file on your pc - new .txt document> save as>all files>exactly named as your .obb and then copy it via USB on your internal SD on the right place, in the right folder.​5.When all previous steps are done, navigate to external SD root and install your game's .apk . When instalation is done, exit your root file manager.
* DO NOT OPEN GAME ONCE INSTALLED, FOR IT'S NOT OVER YET! Just exit​6.Go to your MountFolder. On the upper left corner next to ˝List of pairs˝ headline touch menu icon.
7.Once menu open, touch ˝Apps analyzer˝ option. After short scaning, a list of your apps will appear. Search this list for app you just installed. If it's on the list, so far everything is OK, but if it isn't... you probably messed something up, see if you skipped a step or two click back button.
8.Open FolderMount again if it exits. Click ˝+˝ option at the top
9.Give name to your game (gta, tenis...) by filling ˝name˝ gap
10.Click ˝Source˝ gap and navigate to internal SD in the game's directory that you made in step 3! By clicking ˝Source˝ you should already be in /storage/emulated/0, it will say at the top the name and the path of your current directory. Once you're in directory you made, click ✓ option at the upper right
11.A pop-up will appear saying ˝Would you like me to create the destination folder automatically? You can choose a custom destination by clicking no˝ Click NO
12.Click ˝Destination˝ gap and navigate in directory that you copied from your PC on EXTERNAL SD in step 2! Once there click ✓ option again
13.You're back in menu with Name,Source and Destination gaps which you filled. Touch ✓ again.
*I didn't try to tick ˝exclude from media scanning˝, you shouldn't too 'till you check if everything is working as it should. Try experimenting later.​14.New pop-up will appear asking ˝Your source directory is not empty. Would you like me to move files to the destination(and overwrite existing files)?˝ Click NO again
15.You're in main menu in FolderMount, there's your game's name that you gave it earlier, next to it is grey pin. Touch that pin once and it will turn green.
* in FolderMount after every reboot a pin will turn grey. Just click it before trying to play game because it will not see .obb files and will try to download them again.​16.Exit FolderMount and PLAY YOUR GAME!!!
EDIT:
There is a lot of devices, every of them has different internal and external SD paths, be sure to know them well. The best way to find this out is to go in FolderMount, try to create new bind, and by tapping Source and Destination gap see the path for each SD in the upper part of the screen.
Some SD card locations on various devices:
/mnt/sdcard0 - internal and /mnt/sdcard1 - external;
/mnt/sdcard - internal and /mnt/extSD - external
Also, if this guide helped you feel free to let me know that by pressing THANKS button

Thanks Man You Saved My life

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Glad to help man

Thanks Alot i Realy Needed This Method Because i Love To Play Games But My internal is only 4 gigs and user 1.35 and searched the whole internet for any way but i didn't find
Thanks again
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Thanks Alot i Realy Needed This Method Because i Love To Play Games But My internal is only 4 gigs and user 1.35 and searched the whole internet for any way but i didn't find
Thanks again

I will most certainly have to try this on my tablet! Thank you very much

[Q] Unmovable Files

Hi. I try to explain this briefly and informative so you can help me out. I transferred a huge amount of files (video, music, pictures and apks) via zapya from my old xperia m dual to xperia m2 aqua. After moving files I just found out the files do not get automatically in Album, Movies and .... apps and just remains in Zapya and you can view them only there (So noone else faced such problem?!) But the main problem is, I just finded files and moved them with ES File Explorer File Manager, this is what happend >>>
I accidentally moved files to wrong section (storage/emulated/0) which I guess is systemic path. So the phone began to alerting me with love storage space and when I tried to move files to SD card (with same method i moved them to wrong path), It says the phone needs to be rooted for moving files. Now the files can not be deleted, copied, cut or modified as I guess the phone consider them as systemic files and phone internal storage became full.
I just don't want to root this new phone (at least now, or even root and unroot again), so please help me what to do without rooting (I consider root/unroot as my last hope).

What is the version of android you use ?
If I remember correctly in Android 4.4 KitKat without root you can copy, move files as follows:
Internal memory -> external sd card.
External sd card <-> cloud storage.
You can only copy, move in this direction, but not back:
Internal memory -> external sd card.
Cloud storage -> external sd card.
Also you can't rename or delete folders on external sd card.
You can fix this inconvenience only if you're rooted.
You need to add add <group gid="media_rw" /> in file /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml .

Root
I am concluding that only rooting can make it possible, but waiting for more responses maybe something happen! Now looking for a safe half root method.

Try with File Commander that came with phone as preinstalled system app. You can't use ES File Explorer to edit files on external SD card as KK restriction because it's user application, only system apps can do that.
@AleksJ
Sorry man, but you are so wrong, you can edit external SD card content only with system (non-user) apps and that's KK restriction. So I got this File Commander app preinstalled and I had used it until I rooted my phone. Now Solid Explorer is the best...

Go to Settings/Memory (I think). There is an option to move images/video/music files and maybe other content from/to the internal memory and the SD Card. It also has an option to wipe the cache files (not the directory /cache which is another thing).

Question Can anyone copy from SD card Android/data?

I have the Tmo Samsung a32 that came with Android 11. Secure Storage blocks my normal explorer from seeing the files but the "Files" app works around this restriction to see the files.
However, when I try to copy the files I just get a "The file wasn't copied" error. Also if I try to share the file, it gets removed before the receiving Intent renders.
Based on searching other forums, I haven't seen others having this problem. Generally if they can see/read the file they can copy it out of Android/data.
This only happens on the SD card. I can copy files from Internal storage Android/data just fine, which is also curious.
Does anyone have this same issue? I wonder if it's built into some a32 protection or specific to my SD card.
Thanks!

If you have twrp, copy the /android/data directory on to your sd card.