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Miscellaneous files?

I still havent seen an answer for this issue, but I have over 6GB of Miscellaneous Files in Setting->Storage. nothing in there shows that much info, so I know its from loading different ROMs. I have no idea how to get rid of these files. I've been looking all around CWM for something to clear, but I'm not too confident about messing with that.
Does anyone have an idea of how to clear up this stuff?

Do you have a few nandroid backups? Those will register there. If you're using TWRP, there's a TWRP folder and you can remove them or archive them off. Clockwork is the same, I just don't remember offhand where it stores them.
If this isn't it, you can install busybox, and then either adb shell, or use a terminal emulator on the phone and run `du /mnt/sdcard -hl -d 1` you can then drill down to the directories which are the biggest offenders. Changing the 1 to another number increases the depth that it reports.

Coop9 said:
Do you have a few nandroid backups? Those will register there. If you're using TWRP, there's a TWRP folder and you can remove them or archive them off. Clockwork is the same, I just don't remember offhand where it stores them.
If this isn't it, you can install busybox, and then either adb shell, or use a terminal emulator on the phone and run `du /mnt/sdcard -hl -d 1` you can then drill down to the directories which are the biggest offenders. Changing the 1 to another number increases the depth that it reports.
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Okay. I finally managed to get this started. I went through terminal emulator and found that the /sdcard is only 7.6GB while the number in the main settings says over 10. /android has 2GB from some games, but I can't find anything showing where the 6GB of miscellaneous file is at. Even cwm is only 1.7GB from the one backup I have.
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I've been fiddling with this for the last day or so and found that under miscellaneous file, System Memory now shows up as taking 3.67 GB of data. I've been looking everywhere to see where that much info could be, but I'm kinda stuck now.
I now know where that extra space has gone, but I have no idea how to free it up.
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Galaxy S4 Miscellaneous Files: what and where are they?
So I'm getting a warning that the internal SD is out of memory, I've moved all movable apps to external SD, photos, music too.
Rooted and have TWIP as recovery *BUT* before I install a custom ROM, I want a backup *BUT* there's no room as the backup wants to use internal SD (not external)
Somehow Miscellaneous Files show over 8GB but in My Files it only shows about 200MB addressable (erasable). I deleted all Dropbox files and saved 200MB.
Where the heck are the other 7.8GB of files? How can I see them please?
Thanks in advance.

greenja said:
So I'm getting a warning that the internal SD is out of memory, I've moved all movable apps to external SD, photos, music too.
Rooted and have TWIP as recovery *BUT* before I install a custom ROM, I want a backup *BUT* there's no room as the backup wants to use internal SD (not external)
Somehow Miscellaneous Files show over 8GB but in My Files it only shows about 200MB addressable (erasable). I deleted all Dropbox files and saved 200MB.
Where the heck are the other 7.8GB of files? How can I see them please?
Thanks in advance.
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I am in the same boat with no solution

I fixed it
jinan said:
I am in the same boat with no solution
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backup *everything* and reformat *internal* SD card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44217580#post44217580
hope it helps

greenja said:
backup *everything* and reformat *internal* SD card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44217580#post44217580
hope it helps
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I did this but didn't solve the problem for me. However, I did find a solution which worked for me. I used CWM, went in to the >Backup and Restore>Delete> and chose to delete all backups in the internal SD. Solved my problem

jinan said:
I did this but didn't solve the problem for me. However, I did find a solution which worked for me. I used CWM, went in to the >Backup and Restore>Delete> and chose to delete all backups in the internal SD. Solved my problem
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WOW!!!!
i am so happy i found your tip. finally i managed to clean the mysterious 9Gb in my storage.
thank you very much!!!

Clean Data folder
DaemonAshra said:
I still havent seen an answer for this issue, but I have over 6GB of Miscellaneous Files in Setting->Storage. nothing in there shows that much info, so I know its from loading different ROMs. I have no idea how to get rid of these files. I've been looking all around CWM for something to clear, but I'm not too confident about messing with that.
Does anyone have an idea of how to clear up this stuff?
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Yes its kinda simple, at least it worked for me. Don't forget to thank me
Download ES Explorer
and go into the /data/media folder.
the troublesome files are there. Careful what you delete tho. For myself I had old remnants from another ROM and the entire rom zip file.
Don't forget the thanx button.

A lot of that is cached data for apps. If you use apps like gmusic, it caches music files to the device and that cache folder will grow. Root access will allow you to clear all your data es, including hidden files and that size will drop.

Adjetey Boye said:
Yes its kinda simple, at least it worked for me.
Download ES Explorer
and go into the /data/media folder.
the troublesome files are there. Careful what you delete tho. For myself I had old remnants from another ROM and the entire rom zip file.
Don't forget the thanx button.
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There's nothing in that folder.
So not that simple.

If you're rooted, get Cache Cleaner NG and let it wipe all that unnecessary data. I run it weekly.
With roms like gummy, you can click on Misc and see which app has all the data... It's likely something like Vine (it had a huuuuuuuge cache) or another app like gmusic.

beepea206 said:
If you're rooted, get Cache Cleaner NG and let it wipe all that unnecessary data. I run it weekly.
With roms like gummy, you can click on Misc and see which app has all the data... It's likely something like Vine (it had a huuuuuuuge cache) or another app like gmusic.
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Sir (or madam).
I need you to fully understand exactly how amazing of a person you are. I don't know where the data was or what ate it all, but this app got it all back and you are awesome for recommending it.

Adjetey Boye said:
Yes its kinda simple, at least it worked for me.
Download ES Explorer
and go into the /data/media folder.
the troublesome files are there. Careful what you delete tho. For myself I had old remnants from another ROM and the entire rom zip file.
Don't forget the thanx button.
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It worked for me, I have deleted the folder /data/media entirely。
Tks very much.

I recently ran into a similar issue with my rooted nook tablet. It was killing my sd cards. When I put the sd cards in my laptop, I erased all partitions and that fixed them.
I used to be a moderator in a forum that helped people with car trouble. I have accumulated some good karma. please help me

Eastsun said:
It worked for me, I have deleted the folder /data/media entirely。
Tks very much.
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glad to be of help

Adjetey Boye said:
Yes its kinda simple, at least it worked for me. Don't forget to thank me
Download ES Explorer
and go into the /data/media folder.
the troublesome files are there. Careful what you delete tho. For myself I had old remnants from another ROM and the entire rom zip file.
Don't forget the thanx button.
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Six and a half years later on XIAOMI redmi note 8T I habe finally found 6GB of data in orangenfox folder that I dont need ( for miui ota ). Thank you.

[CM 11 /KITKAT] Swap Internal SD to External SD

How is possible ? Does anyone knows ? can someone ask cody how to do it ?

LucasSaraiva said:
How is possible ? Does anyone knows ? can someone ask cody how to do it ?
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You can use the build.prop swapping method you need to add, copy and paste these lines on the build.prop located in /system. And you must be root:
Code:
# Switch External With Internal
persist.sys.vold.switchexternal=1
# Storage configuration
ro.vold.switchablepair=/storage/sdcard0,/storage/sdcard1
And please make me the favor to tell me if it worked. If not just delete those lines and save, so your tablet will come back to normal.
Regards

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Mord Fustang said:
You can use the build.prop swapping method you need to add, copy and paste these lines on the build.prop located in /system. And you must be root:
Code:
# Switch External With Internal
persist.sys.vold.switchexternal=1
# Storage configuration
ro.vold.switchablepair=/storage/sdcard0,/storage/sdcard1
And please make me the favor to tell me if it worked. If not just delete those lines and save, so your tablet will come back to normal.
Regards
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Didn't work... Please tell Coby that isn't working ...

LucasSaraiva said:
Didn't work... Please tell Coby that isn't working ...
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Oh sorry you cant swap anything currently using Android 4.4.
But try to use foodermount or Link2SD for your apps

Mord Fustang said:
Oh sorry you cant swap anything currently using Android 4.4.
But try to use foodermount or Link2SD for your apps
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Does anyone know other ways ?

LucasSaraiva said:
Does anyone know other ways ?
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Sadly, none.

Someone tried foldermount?

Android-Andi said:
Someone tried foldermount?
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no go for me. But, there is always the possibility that I am confused. Will wait for others to try.

CM11 has storage, mount and permissions bugs still to be squashed. Then, and maybe only then will we see a working storage swap. If I ever come across anything, though, I'll let you know
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I used foldermount and it works perfectly fine.

Mord Fustang said:
I used foldermount and it works perfectly fine.
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Then I am in fact an idiot. Will try again and report. Many thanks!

FolderMount
I use FolderMount with next to no issues.
However, it would not automatically move the files when linking folders so I manually moved the files from internal to external THEN linked the folders. After that no problem with those folders except;
DCIM folder link caused my Camera to become unavailable and/or all photos taken were corrupted. Once link was removed all worked normally. Now using Dropbox w/ 50gb and it automatically saves all my photos, so I just removed them fron internal memory after that, freeing up a few gbs

[Q] 1.2 gig of memory missing

hi all,
i have a problem with my galaxy s4 mini, yesterday i copied a movie from my pc to my phone, it was 1.2 gig big and after i copied it there was no movie to be found in the folder where i put it in.
i got a message that my memory was full, so im missing 1.2 gig of my internal memory, how can i fix this?
probebly it will be solved by going back to factory setting but thats a last resort for me, im hoping sombody knows a solution whitout a hard reset.

Silly suggestion, but have you rebooted the phone? Sometimes the file indexers crash (or get disabled) and the files are there but won't show up.
Also, tried another file manager?
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ShadowLea said:
Silly suggestion, but have you rebooted the phone? Sometimes the file indexers crash (or get disabled) and the files are there but won't show up.
Also, tried another file manager?
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thanks for the reply, i have tried both of them.

have a try to format your sd card

davidpeter said:
have a try to format your sd card
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we are talking about the internal memory here, i cant format this right?

Walter76 said:
we are talking about the internal memory here, i cant format this right?
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You can, if you format your phone

If you copied the file via MTP from your computer, it sometimes fails to refresh the media index.
Try to look at the copy destination with an app from your phone, i.e. a file explorer that does not hide hidden or temp files. It possible that the file is there and you can manually delete it.

[Q] insufficient storage problem

guys i have 50 gb of free space in my opo but still when i try to install apps it shows memory full...searched google for solution but didnt find...when i try to install insufixer app it still shows the same error...can somebody plz help me out...am totally pissed off coz of this...didnt face such problems with my last sony phone....plzzzzzzzzzzz a solution

You probably ran out of space on your /data partition.

Thymo said:
You probably ran out of space on your /data partition.
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can you copy data like music or movies onto ur OPO usin otg or pc??

I can copy music using PC...

I uninstalled games like 400mb to 800 mb...and then when I try to install another app it shows insufficient space

When I looked into data folder I found that it has a copy of my sdcard in it..with folder name 0 ...isvit common or is this the culprit? ..in root I have emulated folder separately... But if I delete something from /data it gets deleted from phone too... Any suggestions? Should I format my phone ?

In storage / emulated I have two folders... Legacy and 0 ...and both folder data is sane...each of 13 GB...is it a symptom of virus or as such?

nithin jain said:
When I looked into data folder I found that it has a copy of my sdcard in it..with folder name 0 ...isvit common or is this the culprit? ..in root I have emulated folder separately... But if I delete something from /data it gets deleted from phone too... Any suggestions? Should I format my phone ?
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nithin jain said:
In storage / emulated I have two folders... Legacy and 0 ...and both folder data is sane...each of 13 GB...is it a symptom of virus or as such?
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No, that's completely normal on this device, for some reason there are several ways to access the internal storage so there are several branches that it's "located" in. Even though it seems like there's more than one storage showing up, it's just one, they're all pointing at the same place.
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So should I format my phone now ?...

have formatted my device and hope the problem wont be seen now...any precautions to be taken so that i dont face it again ?

Saved Data disappearing

Hi all. I've been having a weird spooky issue lately, for past 2 3 months. My latest data, songs screenshot zips etc disappears, probably after a reboot. I have no idea how it happens. Anyone has a guess? I'm on cos 13 stock unrooted also had this issue on nighties.

usmani said:
Hi all. I've been having a weird spooky issue lately, for past 2 3 months. My latest data, songs screenshot zips etc disappears, probably after a reboot. I have no idea how it happens. Anyone has a guess? I'm on cos 13 stock unrooted also had this issue on nighties.
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Is it reflecting free space on your internal storage after they disappeared?
If not, then they are hidden on your internal storage. Try any file manager to view hidden files.
Have you used any unknown cleaner app?
If yes, then may be that app has deleted it.
I would suggest you to do a fresh setup on your device by flashing COS13 factory images.

Mr hOaX said:
Is it reflecting free space on your internal storage after they disappeared?
If not, then they are hidden on your internal storage. Try any file manager to view hidden files.
Have you used any unknown cleaner app?
If yes, then may be that app has deleted it.
I would suggest you to do a fresh setup on your device by flashing COS13 factory images.
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It happens so randomly that I only notice it when I'm looking for that specific file. Ill format internal and setup again. Lets see how it goes.

usmani said:
It happens so randomly that I only notice it when I'm looking for that specific file. Ill format internal and setup again. Lets see how it goes.
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And no rogue apps.