This is probably a stupid question but I need to know.
I used an app (SD Maid) to see the file distribution in my 32Gb sdcard. Does the screenshot below mean that all my files are duplicated? The contents of both
/storage/emulated/0
/data/
seem to be identical.
—why is one labelled 'private' and the other 'public'?
—When using a file manager, does deleting a file in one delete it in the other? If so, which is the real file and which the copy.
—does it matter which one is deleted?
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Hi everybody!
I just got my 1st Android Devide (DHD) and already root, clockwork, changed rom, etc. However, my problem is related to the directories structures inside my SDCARD.
I have 2 questions:
1- I moved some apps that I have in my main memory to my SDCARD via App Settings. However, when I go to my sdcard in windows explorer, I don't find these files. I'm not sure then if is really moving to my sdcard. I just realized some new folders, but they are empty. Does anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?
2- The second question it's linked with the first. I would like to organize in my SDCARD a nice folder structure. Something like:
/
/Songs/
/Photos/
/Documents/
/Backups/
/Games/
/Apps/
And then if you go inside the Apps folder, you have another folder with the name of the application. Pretty much like Program Files folder in Windows.
Is this possible? For Songs, Photos, Documents, I created a folder and it worked. But what about for apps and games that I got on the market?
My SDCARD has also a lot of folder/files that were copied when I put the sdcard on the device. I don't know if I can delete that. Any idea?
Thanks for the help in advance!
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Anyone?
Any tip?
Hi all. I see much system folders on SDcard. Such as a folders with "." in name and folders from some APPs. So there is question, can we some how hide\move them?
How i see this situation. Can we make folder on SDcard and mount it like a SD in Android? So we will get 1 folder with all system folders, and all our folders.
I bad in android\linux but that what i think. Any suggestions?
I was moving some files to free up some space on my sd card. I use root explorer to cut and paste a group of files. When I pasted the files I got an error saying" file too large". I thought that the files didn't get transferred but I noticed that the storage had gone down. I've searched everywhere in root explorer to try to locate files but could not. I use the app undelete to try to find the files but could not. Where did the files go?
If you were moving a large file, like movies, it's a big chance that during the file move it couldn't go from ext to fat32 and it corrupted and that's why it got whipped out.
It shouldn't happen but it's a great possibility. Word to the wise always copy the files then delete the source and careful with the large files, it's easy to forget when changing file systems.
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So there's no way to recover them? I am going to start backing up more often.
On my android device i have folder named LOST.DIR which size is about 2 GB. I know it is some kind of recycle bin, but can i delete its content to free some space and how can i view whats in it?
dino10 said:
On my android device i have folder named LOST.DIR which size is about 2 GB. I know it is some kind of recycle bin, but can i delete its content to free some space and how can i view whats in it?
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Its the files you have deleted when using your phone. Just delete it, or all files in it.
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Its the files you have deleted when using your phone. Just delete it, or all files in it.
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Ok, so that means i can safely delete it, thanks. But is there any way to view those files?
dino10 said:
Ok, so that means i can safely delete it, thanks. But is there any way to view those files?
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They seems to be just renamed and moved after a system boot.
if you cant open it, they are probably binary files. if they where photos/music you could just open them I think.
I tried this method and it did not work. After flashing cm10.2 I have a problem with my internal memory space, I have about 220 mb free space but I don't have many apps on my phone, just a few ones and they are small. So I am searching for solutions and I deleted lost.dir that situated on my external SD. That was the only lost.dir that I found. Any suggestions?
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.