I have an weird issue with my HTC one mini 2. I have two very large files in my DCIM/.thumbnails folder. I have encountered this problem before in other devices, and my understanding is that the files can be deleted and the space freed, but they will then be recreated. However, when I delete the files in my phone, they disappear, but the space is not freed. They are eventually recreated. What is even weirder is that:
the total available internal storage of my phone is 10.83 GBs
the total size of all files excluding the 2 .thumbnails files(hidden files included) is 5.02 GBs
The total used space is reported to be 10.10 GBs
But the 2 .thumbnails files are reported to be
10.77 GBs!( one is 5.36 and the other 5.41)
all the numbers are provided by ES file explorer, some checked through Windows. I have also tryed deleting the files using rm in terminal emulator, but the space issues remain.
What is going on with my phone?
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I have a treo 750 with WM6.
specs says i have 128MB of memory. when i check memory in the device i'm surprised that I have almost ran out! Of 58.55 storage memory, i only have 1.93 left. Of 48.67 program memory, I only have 7.13 MB left despite the fact the I did not install a lot of programs in their.
Where did it go?
I checked through Windows explorer and do a rightclick-properties on all folders, it says 23.6MB but root says I have used 56.62MB.
Why is it inconsistent.
How can I free up memory?
gekkko said:
I have a treo 750 with WM6.
specs says i have 128MB of memory. when i check memory in the device i'm surprised that I have almost ran out! Of 58.55 storage memory, i only have 1.93 left. Of 48.67 program memory, I only have 7.13 MB left despite the fact the I did not install a lot of programs in their.
Where did it go?
I checked through Windows explorer and do a rightclick-properties on all folders, it says 23.6MB but root says I have used 56.62MB.
Why is it inconsistent.
How can I free up memory?
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What applications did you install?
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reyjabs said:
What applications did you install?
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besides the windows media player and Picsel, which I believe are included in WM6 install, I added OneNote Mobile, Ultrasoft Money and Yahoo! Go. But total usage only totals 3.4MB.
These are the all the folders and files:
Folder Application Data 1,170KB
Folder ConnMgr 0KB
Folder Documents and Settings 0KB
Folder Log 0KB
Folder My Documents 881KB
Folder Program Files 3,420KB
Files ati_dbg 0KB
Files cemail 208KB
Files palmVol 36KB
Files PCPkCtrlSv 19KB
Files PCPkInst 6KB
Files pim 18,600KB
TOTAL 24,340KB
but system says i've used up 57.44MB of the 58.55MB Storage memory. why?
gekkko said:
besides the windows media player and Picsel, which I believe are included in WM6 install, I added OneNote Mobile, Ultrasoft Money and Yahoo! Go. But total usage only totals 3.4MB.
These are the all the folders and files:
Folder Application Data 1,170KB
Folder ConnMgr 0KB
Folder Documents and Settings 0KB
Folder Log 0KB
Folder My Documents 881KB
Folder Program Files 3,420KB
Files ati_dbg 0KB
Files cemail 208KB
Files palmVol 36KB
Files PCPkCtrlSv 19KB
Files PCPkInst 6KB
Files pim 18,600KB
TOTAL 24,340KB
but system says i've used up 57.44MB of the 58.55MB Storage memory. why?
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Perform a hard reset and install your add-on one at a time then check memory usage.
This may be a general problem but one I haven't solved yet. I have a P3300 running WM6 on a microSD card formated for FAT32. I am using a GPS navigation program that requires a large number of Google map png files (approx 1400) to be transferred to a cache on the card. I tried using ActiveSync and the transfer bombs out indicating that there is too little memory on the card. The 1400 files corresponds to 9MB and the card has 600MB free space. To get around this I zipped the data up and transferred it across as a single file. However, when I tried to unzip the file I ended up with the same problem. I haven't counted how many files have been transferred but it is a sizeable number. I have a few extra routes to try but would be interested in any feedback on this problem
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I have an HTC touch Dual, windows mobile 6.5. I have a 16gb micro sd inside of it and everything was going pretty well. then today after taking some pictures and messing around with windows media player mobile, things went strange on my memory card. first i noticed none of my songs on windows media player would work. then i looked for them using total comander or whatever, and thats when i saw the strange files and folders. they are mostly system folders appearently, and i cannot delete them. All my programs installed on the card still work, and pictures i have on the card are still there (not the ones i took with the camera), in fact, the only thing that seems to be missing is my roms folder with all my emulator roms, and my music folder with all my music. this is a list of what i have on the card now:
6 empty "file folders" named "." (just a period, guessing they call it a "file folder because they are unsure what it is, but it does have the folder icon) they are all 0 bytes
a "file folder" called "┘kφ$╥M╞.¬√½", 0 bytes
another "file folder" called "║h88 Ω*.***" also 0 bytes
another one called "î┤I¬U¡R.┼Xπ" 0 bytes
Then i have my images folder with all my images uploaded for backgrounds (not my camera pictures), program files, DCIM (which is now empty but i used to have all the pictures and videos from my camera), movies folder, pleco folder (chinese dictionary), and "my voices" which are the recordings i've done.
Now the best parts
a ╥¼ File called "╥/ê≤}. ╥¼" which is 2.85GB (Must be the roms)
a JQ File called "╝µï½ƒ0.Jq" which is 3.60GB (must be all my music because this is how much i uploaded to the card)
and a ∩ File called "▓φα¡d≥ c.∩ " which is 2.71GB (and this one might be all my videos and pictures from my camera, but that seems like a lot and i don't remember having that many pictures)
So obviously my data is still here, but its just crammed into these unknown files. It's not like i really care about all the music and that stuff, I would have just deleted these files if it would have let me, but it won't let me at all. I really would hate to reformat my entire card because of all the programs i've installed and i don't want to go through all of that again... unless now that i'm thinking about it, i could just backup my program files then reformat my card. i'll probably try this. anyway, i don't have anywhere else i can put my micro sd card, just my phone, so if anybody has any idea whats happened to this darn thing, please let me know! thank you very much!
Your sd card is corrupt. Try to scan it (either on the device w/ pocket mechanic, sk tools or something similar), or connect in disk drive mode to a pc and scan it that way (right click on the drive-F: or whatever-then select properties-tools-fix errors). If scanning doesn't work (do it several times if it does), then you're screwed. Copy every file you can to your pc (one folder @ a time), then format the card. It will probably be fine after the format.
Next: change the save path on the camera, and pretty much every thing else, to main memory. Having crap written quickly to the card all the time can cause corruption. Scan frequently, at least once a week, if not more. Do not have temp folders located on the card. Really, really do not have a custom SIP on the card. Just try to use the card for storage, but not as main memory.
My shield has 11.95GB of space, not including the system Partition of 4.05GB. Using ES File Explorer, I have determined that I have 6.36GB of files on the tablet. However the system reports that I have used 11.94GB, so cannot download any apps or files. What is using up that remaining 5.59GB and is there any way to recover it?
try to check out with ES Explorer what's using the space or any other "sdcard" analyzer. Hope it helps. I used to use System Tuner Pro, from Developer 3c. Maybe the freeversion includes it.
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My shield has 11.95GB of space, not including the system Partition of 4.05GB. Using ES File Explorer, I have determined that I have 6.36GB of files on the tablet. However the system reports that I have used 11.94GB, so cannot download any apps or files. What is using up that remaining 5.59GB and is there any way to recover it?
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I had this issue factory reset this will free up the missing gb[emoji106]
Had the same issue on multiple Android devices, it's just Android being Android.
Meaning crap :|
What I do is format the internal storage again (or factory reset but that seems like more of a PITA to me).
Before you format thought select and copy everything from the root directory of your *internal* storage to your *external storage* sd card (or onto your PC).
After you format select all the files you copied and copy back and bingo, storage recovered.
There might be a better way to do this, I'm not an expert.
Have you tried analysing your storage with an app like DiskUsage?:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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Kids, calm down, here's a pro tip:
Since 2.3> Most OEMs started having one partition for Data (App storage) and Internal Storage (<insert your files here>, i.e what pops up when connected to a PC). So what you are seeing are two things sharing one partition. System partition is separate and is usually filled up since it isn't supposed to be touched by the average joe, hence why most OEMs tend to fill it with whatever.
So what 12GB of storage you have free is filled up by downloaded apps and used user space, which is why you see the "internal storage" getting smaller and smaller for each app install. Before all this, Data partition used to be a separate partition being about 1-3 GB. Now this caused a lot of problems when it was quickly filled up, hence why Android/Google(?) decided to merge these two which solved this quite bothersome issue. Moving apps was of course possible around this time but usually only a small portion of the app data was moved into the "internal storage"
tldr: Data and "Internal storage" used to be two separate partitions, and now they're unified and people are confused even if it's been a standard for a few years now.
I'm on Nougat, 7.1.1, Samsung Note 8.
If I copy a directory from the internal storage to the Micro SD card, du then gives me different sizes for these two dirs.
For instance, I created a small test directory with files in the internal storage , for which “du -s” gives me a size of 1992. I copy it to the SD in the terminal, I get a size of 2560. Now I copy the directory from the SD to another location in the internal directory—now the size is again 1992.
Same behavior when this is done in the terminal in TWRP.
I'd think it's a bad card, but the sizes are consistent—I'm gonna check later on a GNU PC, new card too, seems to be working no problem.
But I've never seen behavior like this before…
Any ideas, or is this some well known phenomenon that I'm ignorant of?