Have downloaded some videos onto the phone via kies but some of them have transferred badly. After an age of looking I have absolutely no idea how to delete them.
They don't appear in the files folder, you cannot tap and hold to delete, and there is no delete option on the video. Does anyone know how I can get rid of these videos.
Thanks
If you know the location open via My Files menu and delete .
Or use USB mass storage mode and delete via PC .
If you dont know the location check where Kies put them .
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Thanks
Gone into my files and there is nothing in there at all.
Cannot see anywhere on Kies to show me where it has put them
Gone into the USB mass storage mode when you plug into the PC and again you get the same folders as on the phone and all are blank
This is a major screw up by samsung if you can't just select a video and delete it as I am struggling here. Are there any apps out there to find these files?
I ran into the same problem yesterday and I couldn't figure it out!
I don't actually understand the 'file structure' on this phone. Where is everything stored?
When I connect my phone to the PC, I get two distinct drives, H: and F:
From what I can see the INTERNAL phone memory (which comes up as H: on the PC), is located at /mnt/sdcard.
What is the 'external_sd' folder that's located at /mnt/sdcard/external_sd actually for? It doesnt seem to correspond to the sdcard that's in the phone.
How to I access the sd card mamory from file manager within the phone?
I've tried looking for the videos I recorded using ES File Manager, but I cant find them anywhere...
Glad I am not alone with this one. Samsung need to sort it quick. At the moment I am wondering do you fill up the internal card and thats it because you cannot delete the videos?
external_sd is a link to whatever memory card you put in, it seems weird to me as well. In astro under tools - sd card usage this gives a treesize type view which might help track down your missing files.
downloaded astro file manager and done a search on the file name and has come upp with
/mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera/*****
**** being the file name
I then press and hold and on the menu that opens select show directory and there they all are. I then press the multi icon and was then allowed to select the file and delete it.
Thank goodness for that!!!!!!
Thanks for the help
In fact I now go into the files folder in the applications screens, then DCIM and now a camera folder is there with them all in. That was not there before but is now after installing and searching with Astro file manager
Max Damage said:
downloaded astro file manager and done a search on the file name and has come upp with
/mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera/*****
**** being the file name
I then press and hold and on the menu that opens select show directory and there they all are. I then press the multi icon and was then allowed to select the file and delete it.
Thank goodness for that!!!!!!
Thanks for the help
In fact I now go into the files folder in the applications screens, then DCIM and now a camera folder is there with them all in. That was not there before but is now after installing and searching with Astro file manager
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The sdcard/DCIM/Camera folder is where the pictures and videos taken with the camera go to, if it wasn't there before, I assume you've never taken a picture or recorded a video before.
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These videos came from Kies and they were nowhere to be seen until I downloaded astro file manager. What is strange now is the DCIM folder says 0 as though it is empty but it is now full of these videos from Kies when you open it. All very strange and it only appeared after I did the search. before it there was nothing even in astro file manager.
I did take 2 photos the other day and again they have suddenly appeared in this folder
mark2222 said:
external_sd is a link to whatever memory card you put in, it seems weird to me as well. In astro under tools - sd card usage this gives a treesize type view which might help track down your missing files.
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Thanks for that. That's what I thought, but the first time I tested it it didn't work, I just tried again and it worked just fine. I put a file onto the sdcard and it appeared in the external_sd folder.
One other question, /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard both seem to point to the internal memory. Is there a reason it's listed twice?
mark2222 said:
external_sd is a link to whatever memory card you put in, it seems weird to me as well. In astro under tools - sd card usage this gives a treesize type view which might help track down your missing files.
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Thanks for that. That's what I thought, but the first time I tested it it didn't work, I just tried again and it worked just fine. I put a file onto the sdcard and it appeared in the external_sd folder.
One other question, /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard both seem to point to the internal memory. Is there a reason it's listed twice?
i put a 32 gb micro card in the tab after loading about 2gb of music on it, it found the card then only recognized about ten files while either deleting or replacing the remaining files with numbered files that come up as unreadable format. i have placed a folder labeled no media but that seems not to work. even sent it back to viewsonic and they reset it to factory ( i did that also) sent it back and it stil does it . any suggestions would be appreciated. its a stock gtab no mods
This is a known issue on some mods, although I didn't know stock also suffered from this problem. You need to create a file named ".nomedia" and place it in either the root directory, or the directory where you store your media. Note that you cannot create this file in Windows. Mac or linux may be able to, but the easiest way is to use a file explorer like ES File explorer, which has the ability to create a file.
thanks for the tip
i will give it a try and let you know what happened,
nope not working
tried as you advised , made a .nomedia file reloaded the sd card put it in wanting the world and the same thing happened. all but a few files were left and then there were 20 to 30 numbered files where there used to be mp3 folders.plus if i select one of these files it says unable to open this file type
So I have an sdcard in my Nook tablet... 16gb sandisk.. brand new
I put some divx avi movies on the card in the "MyFiles/Videos"
All was fine and mx player played them fine
Then I needed to do the 1.4.0 rollback so I did a full wipe "Deregister and Erase"
That apparently deletes all files in the "MyFiles" subfolder in both the main unit AND your sdcard.
So I had to add them back after I was re-rooted and now put them into a new folder in the root of the sdcard called "Videos"
But again.. after a reboot of the device without erasing anything... I lost all the videos in there. Anyone else seeing this?
All my other files are still there. I have a folder of apk files that the market won't show me like Amazon TV apk and stuff and those remain untouched. But its like any videos folder get hunted down and erased
Gonna rename it to myvidz and hope for the best.
Make sure it's in /sdcard/My Files and not /media/My Files.
I'm a noob to android, but I thought I would share something along the same lines.
Initially I also seemed to feel that files I copied to the sdcard would appear and disappear in the custom B&N library viewer. The thing that fooled me in the library is it lists My Nook | Memory Card. I assumed this was a the hierarchy / crumbs links path to the sd card, but eventually I realized that this is a toggle menu to switch between internal and sd card memory which ever one is darker is active.
I'm using a rooted device with root browser and need to delete certain residual files of an app.
The path is data/rallsd. I need to delete this entire rallsd folder together with the residual files inside,but unfortunately despite the system message shows that it was deleted,it actually failed to delete it.
I checked the permission of the rallsd folder and it was all ok.
I tried to move the entire rallsd folder to my external sd card to delete it. Unfortunately, instead of moving it, it was actually duplicated to the external sd card,despite that I actually clicked to move. However,surprisingly I am able to delete the rallsd folder that is duplicated to the external sd card.
What I want to ask now is,is there any apps or way to force delete the mentioned folder?
I recently got a refurbished A50 and happy for most part despite few design issues I have with the GUI.
But the one problem that is an issue is that I am not able to rename any images in gallery. I can rename them in file manager but that is a real pain.
I tried several different galleries and the same happens in all of them.
The error is:
An error occurred: java.lang.NullPointerException:authority
Any ideas on why and how to fix?
Thanks much.
In another forum was suggested that since images on SD card I need to set permissions to rename on that card. But no indication how to go about that.
The typical permissions settings for the gallery apps already say they have all storage permissions and I see nothing specific to location such as internal vs sdcard?
Is there some other place to grant read/write permissions to rename files on SD Card? One would think that if Gallery could not alter names it also could not move images or even create new folders on the SD Card?