Hello guyss, today when I was browsing through my sd card I saw a folder named LOST.DIR and its consuming space of around 2GB... And it has more than 500 files in it..
So can any one tell me if this is an important/system folder and would it be safe deleting the whole folder!!
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It is a folder of damaged files found during file system checks. If it is that big you are not treating your phone right.
The main tip is that you have to properly unmount/eject your phone from your computer before unplugging the USB cable.
Also but not as likely is that the phone should be properly shutdown not doing stuff like just pulling the battery. *Just stating this since some people do that.
Deleting it however, is fine. As said, all files in there are corrupt.
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As u said its junk file so its very safe to delete it ryt?? I DONT TO MESS WITH MY PHONE
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Delete the contents but no harm in keeping them they are dead files .
Your choice .
jje
JJEgan said:
Delete the contents but no harm in keeping them they are dead files .
Your choice .
jje
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Bettrr i'll delete it its taking large portion of my disk space...
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I was deleteing junk apps from sdcard/app_manager/app_backups/user_apps cause of tapjoy
And I realised my space was still less than before using tapjoy
So I deleted .DinerRush folder from sdcard. It took about 10 seconds and freed up .06 gb so I was concerned it wasn't something left over from a tapjoy game, but might have been important?
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Anything in SDcard can be removed with the exception of clockworkmod folder unless you want no back.
I have so many folders in sdcard and I know some of the apps I use-use them, but what about the crap ones from junk apps that didn't clear out with an uninstall?
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Edgarhighman said:
I have so many folders in sdcard and I know some of the apps I use-use them, but what about the crap ones from junk apps that didn't clear out with an uninstall?
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Remove them, if you want move everything to your PC.
Run your apps and see if anything is missing then find it and transfer it back.
Also you can just delete 1 by 1...it depends on how you want to go about it.
My PC has been down since Oct/Nov 2011, I was having fun with adb too
I did order a USB micro to female USB otg host. Maybe I can use that with flash drive
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Ok quick question. On my sd card is a folder called "android". Inside is a folder called data and inside here looks like app data. My question is can i delete this folder cas it takes up 6gb.
Reason im asking is before on old rom i had moved all apps to sd card but after new rom i installed all apps to phone mem instead. So now not sure if this folder is from now or if its all my old app data from before. Unmount of sd card and my apps still work which makes me beleive its ok to delete but thought id ask u gurus first before i cause major problems.
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yeahdude38 said:
Ok quick question. On my sd card is a folder called "android". Inside is a folder called data and inside here looks like app data. My question is can i delete this folder cas it takes up 6gb.
Reason im asking is before on old rom i had moved all apps to sd card but after new rom i installed all apps to phone mem instead. So now not sure if this folder is from now or if its all my old app data from before. Unmount of sd card and my apps still work which makes me beleive its ok to delete but thought id ask u gurus first before i cause major problems.
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Some applications store data in there, for example the Amazon appstore caches all your APKs there, I believe Google Maps' cache is there, etc. In *general*, it's fine to delete it but just be advised you may actually lose some data/settings you don't know about. If you're cool running all your apps with the SD card unmounted, I don't see why it would cause you any major grief.
Well basically yeah figured that. Now if i delete it and i lost sum app data cant i just use tibu and restore it ?? That way i get of the junk...???
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Well basically yeah figured that. Now if i delete it and i lost sum app data cant i just use tibu and restore it ?? That way i get of the junk...???
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I doubt it, I don't think TiBu backs up the stuff on the SDCARD, but I could be wrong about that. I've only used it one or twice
Any input from anyone else before i try this ? The whole idea is to try and clean some space off of my already small sscard. Just didnt think i had 6gb worth of apps and thinking it came from before when i moved everything to sdcard. thats why im asking the question in my OP.
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You could always duplicate the folder on your pc, delete it entirely from your sd, and see what happens. Run it for a few days, and try out all of the apps you regularly use. If all hell breaks loose, you could just put it back on your sd and delete portions more selectively.
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You could always duplicate the folder on your pc, delete it entirely from your sd, and see what happens. Run it for a few days, and try out all of the apps you regularly use. If all hell breaks loose, you could just put it back on your sd and delete portions more selectively.
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Perfecttttt!!!!!!! Why didnt i think of this...??? Lol will try and let u know. Thanks
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Please report back as I'm interested in this as well
Worked great. Copied folder to my pc then deleted it off my sd card. Restarted phone and ultimatly it made a new android folder. All apps still work. Freed a bunch of space. Foind out Basically that folder contains all the data from games and any apps that may need "downloaded content". So dont delete it unless you feel like downloading all this data over again.
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I'm glad it worked out.
I'm curious. Considering it re-downloads data, is the size of the new folder considerably smaller?
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Well for me yes cas i think i had app files somehow from an earlier rom. Im not saying you will too im just talking about my situation so id be careful just in case.
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I just noticed that the DCIM \ .thumbnails folder on my internal SD card seems to be excessively large - about 1017MiB. The Camera folder itself only contains images totalling 81MiB.
Is this something to be expected, or can I safely delete the folder to (hopefully) clear some space?
Thanks,
Erik N
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Samsung Galaxy S3 (International), Stock ROM, rooted.
I delete it regularly with no problems... I think really it just cache the thumbnails from gallery app
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Cool, thanks, I'll give it a go.
Cheers,
Erik
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Can you really delete it???
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Can you really delete it???
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Ok, I've always wondered if that would ruin my smartphone or something.
I deleted it but i didn't reclaim any space. To be exact, right after i deleted it it looked like i reclaimed 2gb (the size of the .thumbnails folder) but next time i checked, after a restart, my free space was at the same level as before deleting it. I can't find the .thumbnails folder anywhere now... Any ideas?
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I deleted it but i didn't reclaim any space. To be exact, right after i deleted it it looked like i reclaimed 2gb (the size of the .thumbnails folder) but next time i checked, after a restart, my free space was at the same level as before deleting it. I can't find the .thumbnails folder anywhere now... Any ideas?
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The .thumbnails folder can be fount in storage/sdcard0/DCIM.
You need to be rooted to see the .thumbnails folder.
Thanks for the quick reply but it's not there either (i am rooted and I browsed the folder with root explorer).
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My fix
I fixed this by deleting .thumbnails on my s4 and created a new .thumnails folder in DCIM folder, finally got rid of the nonsense.
are there any android apps that can save data to files then copy to folder or sd card? for example, I want to take some notes and save to txt files in notepad and save to sd card.
I found almost none of android apps can save.
any suggestion? can any list some apps can save data ?
Why not just cloud ur notes. They r much safer that way. Especially incase something goes wrong with ur sdcard
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LORDFIRE00 said:
Why not just cloud ur notes. They r much safer that way. Especially incase something goes wrong with ur sdcard
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how? I can't even find where the data stored in the phone storage. the app simply save a line of data to a sticky note inside it, can never take it out. this means it permanently store in the app and I can only view the data inside that specific app. that is not good.
What kind of data r u referring to
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What kind of data r u referring to
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when I write a line in notepad, I want to save it to txt files store to phone storage or sd card. just like on pc notepad.
Hi
I'm just curious as to what methods people use to clean up their S3s? For example any folders that contain junk?
Also any tips, recommended apps etc?
Thanks in advance.
Phil
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philicom said:
Hi
I'm just curious as to what methods people use to clean up their S3s? For example any folders that contain junk?
Also any tips, recommended apps etc?
Thanks in advance.
Phil
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Sd maid from market but is risky if you're not sure what you do...
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xanthrax said:
Sd maid from market but is risky if you're not sure what you do...
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Thanks will check it out. Any others?
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Try System Cleanup as well.
Not worth the effort on an Android phone .
jje
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Not worth the effort on an Android phone .
jje
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Agree :thumbup:
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Here's what I tend to do every now and then (about once a month or so):
Clear call and messaging log, reset voice call duration (I do this at the beginning of each billing cycle).
Delete text message threads
Clear the browser cache and history
Clear cache on downloaded apps (mainly Facebook and Facebook Messenger).
Move pictures/videos from internal memory to external SD card using "My Files"
That's all I feel is really necessary and even then it's more of a "spring cleaning" thing than anything else, just to keep things organized. I don't download and uninstall a whole lot of apps or anything either, everything is pretty much set up the way I want it with the apps that I need.
i just look through a file manager for pointless files and delete them
Leave it as it is. Won't change the performance of your phone.
Thanks guys. Not really looking for performance improvements. Mainly general housekeeping and space saving. Obviously not to much of a problem now but was concerned about long term build up.
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If i erase my internal SD card on with my pc, will my Phone still work?