It's a strange problem. Whenever I delete a large file from Samsung My Files (File Manager), the file gets deleted on the app. But the file still remains hidden somewhere in the system and occupying the space. No, it's not in Recycle Bin. I clear that too. I tried to dig in and find it. I couldn't.
Then I tried to clear the app data of My Files. The data reflects the file size of the file I deleted (2.7GB). After clearing the data (3MB), the data size reverts to the same size (2.7GB) within a second. It seems the deleted file is refusing to go from my system and hiding somewhere
Can someone help me with this issue? I am running out of memory space on my S8. I have root.
Thanks in advance
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I'm getting this when trying to update a few apps in the market. Titanium backup shows that my ROM is only about 790 MB. I haven't tried moving apps to the SD card. My internal storage is showing several GB free.
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Performed backup, wiped cache+dalvik, rebooted. No help. Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh.
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You have a rogue .odex file in your /data/app folder. Probably left there by lucky patcher if you have been using that. remove the .odex file and you will be fine.
Seems I have a few folders named data...
Internal>Android>data
Internal>data
Can you give me the full path?
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duckredbeard said:
Seems I have a few folders named data...
Internal>Android>data
Internal>data
Can you give me the full path?
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you only have one /data/app folder found in the root folder
It is not on internal - that is your internal sd storage space. It is on your data partition - you will need to use esfile explorer or root explorer.
Since I'm having the issue with FX file explorer from next app, could it be that one seen in the screen shot? I only see 3 odex files in this folder. Safe to delete all three?
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duckredbeard said:
Since I'm having the issue with FX file explorer from next app, could it be that one seen in the screen shot? I only see 3 odex files in this folder. Safe to delete all three?
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Have you used lucky patcher to patch them?
Something has cracked these apps. You only need to remove the orphaned ones to solve your issue. If they have a corresponding .apk, the app will force close if you remove the .odex as well.
I didn't use lucky patcher on this that I remember. Is it safe to delete the odex files if all I have to do is then reinstall those that force close?
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The three that have odex are titanium backup, gauge battery widget, and FX file explorer. Might have tried to lucky patch on TiB.
duckredbeard said:
I didn't use lucky patcher on this that I remember. Is it safe to delete the odex files if all I have to do is then reinstall those that force close?
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The three that have odex are titanium backup, gauge battery widget, and FX file explorer. Might have tried to lucky patch on TiB.
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None of them should be odexed so something has odexed them. Yes you can uninstall them, remove the .odex files and uninstall. Whether it fixes your problem remains to be seen.
I used root explorer to delete the associated odex of next app FX file explorer. Reinstallation of FX successful. Thanks!
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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.
No matter what ROM I run on my GS3 when I go to the built in DOCUMENTS app (documentsui.apk) and click on recents files It will shows files that I no longer have on my phone..
The issue is when I try to clear them off or delete them.. it say's cannot delete files. They seem to be files i've downloaded on my computer... but I have wiped my download history on chrome on all my devices.
I have tried ccleaner, clearing the downloads and documents app from manage apps, clear out all data on my google account (I tried this because these recent files persists across all of my android devices.) completely wiped my phone and sd card.
I basically use my android file manager ... Recently i found out one thing... If i capture few photos from camera app or download few photos from websites and view them from my file manager ... The File manager cache storage increases...
I can understand that it creates temporary files to make the photos load faster the next time (around 10mb) but my doubt is
I deleted all my camera photos and cleared the recycle bin in my file manager ... But still the file manager cache storage is 10 mb... It is still in the cache space...
I know the deleted images will be taken out from normal file list but still it will be there hidden
Until rewritten by some other thing ..
But my questions are
So does the deleted images stored as cache in the file manager ????
Or is it just useless after the original image is deleted??
Without using recovery softwares, will the original image be recovered with this file manager cache??
Kindly give an answer with detailed explanation
Each app, so also the File Manager app you use, has its own cache where the app is storing files to reference later. If the File Manager app currently doesn't have a setting for how much disk space the cache is allowed to take up, so it just keeps getting larger and larger until the entire drive is full.
Whatever data the File Manager app stores in its cache, they aren't accessible by any recovery softwares, AFAIK.
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.