I'm looking through my SD card and a folder called lost.dir is there with 2.5 gigs in it? Is it safe to delete the files are just numbers. Any idea
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I believe that Lost.dir acts like a recycle bin file for windows or Mac... as in you deleted something from the sd card using your computer, and those are the remnants or you have corrupted files when the phone starts up. In that case, it should be safe to delete.
Thanks!
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Anyone know how to actually move apps to the SD card? It seems for the Razr, it goes from the Phone to Internal Storage with is /SDcard I believe, not SDcard-ext which is the actual SDcard.
Asphalt 7's 1.36GBs of files is eating up my internal storage.
I can move apps, but it continues to tell me I'm low on storage.
Thanks in advance!
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Yes, download the app "gl to SD" you need to be rooted thou
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SD to GL it works flawless im using it on my razr.
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Ever since flashing jb Roms on my phone I've noticed folders by those names in root folder. Is that something new or is that possibly left over from a previous install?...I was tinkering around with a file explorer and tried to delete "storage", (which also has sdcard0 inside) and it ended erasing all my external sd contents. Can anyone else verify this is normal or something wrong with my internal sd linking etc?. Just wanna make sure its supposed to be like that. Tia
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Ever since flashing jb Roms on my phone I've noticed folders by those names in root folder. Is that something new or is that possibly left over from a previous install?...I was tinkering around with a file explorer and tried to delete "storage", (which also has sdcard0 inside) and it ended erasing all my external sd contents. Can anyone else verify this is normal or something wrong with my internal sd linking etc?. Just wanna make sure its supposed to be like that. Tia
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That's normal for aosp roms
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Thanks for the reply. What if I'm running the stock rooted ruu based Rom by viperboy? Is it a jb thing?
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onefasttreopro said:
Thanks for the reply. What if I'm running the stock rooted ruu based Rom by viperboy? Is it a jb thing?
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On sense roms u can acess external sd card just like you always did
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Well that I figured out. I'm just confused where the "storage" folder came from....was it added since I started using jb Roms? Because ics roms don't have a folder named "storage", they only have sdcard and sdcard2. "storage" seems to have come up since jb Rom installs. I hope I'm explaining correctly. Is having a "storage" folder along with the other 2 sdcard folders normal when using a jb rom?
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Yup, nothing to worry about man
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Ok looks like ill just have to be careful with messing with that folder....thanx.
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I have clean ROM installed also did a fresh install to see if that was the issue. And it remains. It stays stuck calculating and never moves. Any idea before I go ahead and format the internal SD card.
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Have you tried to use your stock file explorer? Root explorer im sure your familiar with but I found that the stock works way better for viewing and transfering files.
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So when I go into storage it said I have 9gb of "other" ?? Anyone have an idea what it can be? I've looked everywhere through my phone to find these mysterious files.
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Like a bunch of text maybe game saves obb files
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Try file manager in root mode and check for your old files and ROM backups in /data/media folder.
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OK just to be sure here. I'm on a 4.2 rom as well and I have a about 9 gigs taken up. I turned es file Explorer on root mode and unhid the hidden files. I looked and there was a data/media folder with about 9 gigs in it. Should I delete this and I will be fine?
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That's all your personal data. Don't delete the whole thing but look for the large directories under there.
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Well I looked through there and it seems to be almost a copy of my SD card folder. I looked through all the files and there is 5 files with the exact same contents. They are all identical to the SD card folder and they are taking up the same amount of space . the files are SD card, inside the data/media and 0 inside the same folder. Inside the storage folder there is both sdcard0 and legacy. All these have the same contents.
What's up with this?
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Your old home folder is /data/media the new one is the 0 folder. You can delete most of the duplicates from media, and can move anything into 0 that you want to keep.
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When you upgrade from a 4.1.1 rom to a 4.2.2 rom or 4.3 rom your storage changes from sdcard0 to something else so you will find a lot of duplicates that can be deleted. Just for future reference.
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If you check the size of the /data it will probably explain the missing space. Just backup your important info to the pc and do an internal wipe
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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techinv said:
Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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henslo said:
I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
techinv said:
Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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Okay. Would I be flashing my ROM/kernel combination after that step?
I assume that restoring a backup might introduce problems so probably better to stay away from that??
Thanks
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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That screenshot is useless, depending on if you are using android 4.1.x or android 4.2.x
4.2.x introduces a new filesystem and starts using a new directory /data/media/0
all of your old data is still in /data/media and your phone is looking at /data/media/0 for sdcard space
it calculates total space by how big /data media is and its contents are under /0 (the 0 is the user that is on the device, /1 would be a second user account, however user accounts are disabled on phones)