I noticed that even if I store my pictures in external sdcard.. the space still reflects in the internal sdcard... you can check this in settings -> storage
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I noticed that even if I store my pictures in external sdcard.. the space still reflects in the internal sdcard... you can check this in settings -> storage
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Think of it this way, I'm not 100% sure, that this is going to be correct, but I'm 90% sure ^^, the app needs to look for the pictures once, and after that only when you add new ones. I'm guessing, that the app does something similar to YouTube, I think it "preloads" the photos, so basically, it stores the neccessary information, in the apps database...
That would explain quite a lot of this mysterious space-domination of Android ^^
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Think of it this way, I'm not 100% sure, that this is going to be correct, but I'm 90% sure ^^, the app needs to look for the pictures once, and after that only when you add new ones. I'm guessing, that the app does something similar to YouTube, I think it "preloads" the photos, so basically, it stores the neccessary information, in the apps database...
That would explain quite a lot of this mysterious space-domination of Android ^^
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Thanks for the reply mate... but can't the gallery do what the music app does, the music app just gets the link of the music, thats why the size of the music apps in internal SD is only in "kb" (Consideringthe music files are saved in the external SD)...
And I think the size of the photos in External SD and Internal SD are the same? This is really weird and no one is complaining about this? Picture files can take up space that's why I'm saving it to the external SD... hmmmm :silly:
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I think my phone is deleting pictures. I have been taking a lot atleast 300 this week and 10 videos. on a 2GB sd but shouldn't internal takeover?
TramainM said:
I think my phone is deleting pictures. I have been taking a lot atleast 300 this week and 10 videos. on a 2GB sd but shouldn't internal takeover?
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I don't believe that the phone switches automatically. It might but it's never done it for me. Perhaps the sdcard is corrupt. Look for files in the lost+found directory.
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I don't believe that the phone switches automatically. It might but it's never done it for me. Perhaps the sdcard is corrupt. Look for files in the lost+found directory.
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Where is the root of that folder at?
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Where is the root of that folder at?
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/sdcard/lost+found
You might also have another folder called found.000 but you might have to select Show Hidden Files/Folders to see them.
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/sdcard/lost+found
You might also have another folder called found.000 but you might have to select Show Hidden Files/Folders to see them.
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Found it buts its empty do you think i just took to many photos?
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Found it buts its empty do you think i just took to many photos?
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It should tell you when your storage card is running low on space.
So, this may or may not be the same problem I'm having, but I've noticed that my pics will disappear and reappear in no apparent fashion. really frustrating. i've used two diff memory cards, and it's like the phone deletes the most recent ones, then brings them back? WTF? Try to unmount the SD card in the system settings and see if they come back.
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So, this may or may not be the same problem I'm having, but I've noticed that my pics will disappear and reappear in no apparent fashion. really frustrating. i've used two diff memory cards, and it's like the phone deletes the most recent ones, then brings them back? WTF? Try to unmount the SD card in the system settings and see if they come back.
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Tried it no luck.
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I think my phone is deleting pictures. I have been taking a lot atleast 300 this week and 10 videos. on a 2GB sd but shouldn't internal takeover?
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I didn't see any posts that you said pictures are actually missing, it seems you just think you would have filled your external..? You can try an app called file expert, choose "my files" then pictures, and it will find all the pictures on the phone.. or the app quickpic has an option to scan folders that have a .nomedia file in them, perhaps your pics are getting saved in a folder that doesn't show? Either way quickpic does a better job than gallery at finding all of your pics.
If you are thinking your sd card would be full from pictures, look at the size of your pictures files. At full resolution highest quality, I don't have any over 2 megs in size, so with an empty 2 gig sd card you would need to likely take over 1000 pictures to fill it up.
If you are sure you have lost pictures/videos that should be on your external, I would replace that sucker and take it as a lesson. Or save to internal, you aren't likely to lose those regardless..
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I didn't see any posts that you said pictures are actually missing, it seems you just think you would have filled your external..? You can try an app called file expert, choose "my files" then pictures, and it will find all the pictures on the phone.. or the app quickpic has an option to scan folders that have a .nomedia file in them, perhaps your pics are getting saved in a folder that doesn't show? Either way quickpic does a better job than gallery at finding all of your pics.
If you are thinking your sd card would be full from pictures, look at the size of your pictures files. At full resolution highest quality, I don't have any over 2 megs in size, so with an empty 2 gig sd card you would need to likely take over 1000 pictures to fill it up.
If you are sure you have lost pictures/videos that should be on your external, I would replace that sucker and take it as a lesson. Or save to internal, you aren't likely to lose those regardless..
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Ill try quickpic, and then ill report back to you.
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I didn't see any posts that you said pictures are actually missing, it seems you just think you would have filled your external..? You can try an app called file expert, choose "my files" then pictures, and it will find all the pictures on the phone.. or the app quickpic has an option to scan folders that have a .nomedia file in them, perhaps your pics are getting saved in a folder that doesn't show? Either way quickpic does a better job than gallery at finding all of your pics.
If you are thinking your sd card would be full from pictures, look at the size of your pictures files. At full resolution highest quality, I don't have any over 2 megs in size, so with an empty 2 gig sd card you would need to likely take over 1000 pictures to fill it up.
If you are sure you have lost pictures/videos that should be on your external, I would replace that sucker and take it as a lesson. Or save to internal, you aren't likely to lose those regardless..
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Nope still didn't find them =/
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Nope still didn't find them =/
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Did you hit menu>show hidden?
That will show you the pics if they are being saved in a hidden non-scannable folder..
Ok so I have a 32gb s3. And a 32gb class 10 micro sd.
My question is:
What should I save on the internal memory and what should I save on the micro sd? Just curious
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I would store all of your apps on internal memory, and any large files on the microSD card. That way your apps are accessing fast internal NAND flash, and your large files are portable on the micro SD in case you need to move them.
^^ always a good policy. Music, movies, rom files, etc.. have always had their place on the external card. However, with the 32GB internal storage, you may find yourself moving more stuff to internal storage as it becomes more an issue of portability than memory management.
IMO apps should definitely stay in phone memory so that they load more quickly and work with the external SD card removed (when sharing files or moving stuff around).
I would advise that pictures be kept in internal storage because of the generally higher failure rate of external cards. We've had corrupted cards sweep across the first Galaxy S device, and a lot of people lost a lot of data this way. I've had all my internal/external files backed up to 3 cloud storage solutions ever since, using this awesome app: FolderSync.
It may not be a bad idea to occasionally back up important files (like pictures and documents) to the external storage.
Thank you. As far as music and photos?
Where do you think these are best kept?
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Thank you. As far as music and photos?
Where do you think these are best kept?
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Apps can no longer be stored on external storage. Thanks to Google, they coded android to only allow apps access to internal storage, even with apps such as apps 2 sd it is no longer possible. If you root, you will have to move your titanium backup file over to external sd card, and then go under preferences in TB and change the default location. The new cwm will still write to your sd card but that's it. Your very lucky to have gotten the 32gb model, because 16gb could be filled up if your a gamer because of how much data modern games store. You will have to manually move music, movies, and any other large files to your external card. There is a very long thread about this in the international models forum. Also, I believe there's an app that can move game data to the sd card, you have to be rooted & you will find the link to it in the forum that discusses this issue. I hope this makes some sense to you, it's kind of odd & it took me about a week to even discover it.
Thanks bro. Makes sense.
What are you guys using to move files around from internal to external and vice versa
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Question.
If I have photos etc saved to my internal storage. And I'm flashing roms. Full wipes required.
Won't I lose all my data and pics?
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Question.
If I have photos etc saved to my internal storage. And I'm flashing roms. Full wipes required.
Won't I lose all my data and pics?
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If your phone has an sd card in it, the first time you use the camera app it will ask you if you want to store photos on your sdcard or extsdcard, choose extsdcard & they will be on your external sd card in a folder called dcim. Only apps that are preloaded on the phone are allowed access to the external storage to write. If/when cyanogen mod comes to our phone, then apps will be able to be stored on extsdcard as usual because cm is built from source, and they have recoded(I guess that's how u would say it) this area of the Android system. So... Stored on extsdcard.... Then pics will be safe, hope I've helped.
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Thanks bro. Makes sense.
What are you guys using to move files around from internal to external and vice versa
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You can actually us the stock app called "my files" or a number of third party apps. I use my files or sometimes esFile explorer. Just long press the file you'd like to move and from the list that pops up select copy, cut, or move. Then go to the area you want to the file in & if using esFile explorer touch the button at the top of the screen that says paste, or if using my files press the button at the top that says done. Hope I've helped ya out....
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
carlos64030 said:
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Q: Why are my pictures saved to the internal phone storage and how can I force it to save to the SD card?
A: When you first launched your camera app (assuming you had an SD card in) it should have asked you if you wanted to save to the SD card. Either way, the problem is easily fixed within the camera settings or by going to Settings> Storage> App storage locations and choosing Storage card for each option.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
cruise350 said:
When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Thanks... that takes care of that problem. I never even thought about using that 'Media Sync' option to find files. I still can't find a way to force downloading photos to the SD card though.
carlos64030 said:
Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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Yeah, that's how mine's read. I don't see any other settings in the browser OR on the phone to change the directory path. I don't have this problem on any of my other phones. All the downloaded photos goes straight to the SD card. Oh well...
I have done some searching around for storing my Google play music on my external sd card instead of the internal memory. Basically from what I have found is your changing the directory path to the external memory. I am somewhat of a noob to this. I tried using this method here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2003930
I could not find the cache file with Rom tool box or esfile I also on a side note have had issues with finding zip files at times when I know I put them on the external memory.
So my question is, has anyone tried this and with success?
This method seemed to be the most simple way of doing it.
Also I am on flappjaxxx aosp jb Rom so is the directory different?
In the screen shot for Rom tool box you can see that it is empty and in esfile it is not there.
Am I looking in the wrong spot? Any help our someone's expertise would be amazing!
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You are over thinking this...
All you need to do is put the music on the sdcard.. clear data of Google music, reboot and the media scanner will read all storage and tell apps where things are.
As you can see in the pic of Google music, I have a sound file that isn't in my music folder. The media scanner still displays it on the player even though I didn't point it there.
I am not sure how to move it to the external memory if I can't find it. I have tried doing that in the past but Google music wanted to download the music again. I guess I could always download the music to my pc and transfer over. I guess I am not sure how to put new purchased music on the external?
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I believe the OP is asking about the technique that forces your cloud-based music to be stored on an external SD when the user "pins" the song for offline access.
You seem the referring to music stored on the SD by other means.
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len_smith said:
I believe the OP is asking about the technique that forces your cloud-based music to be stored on an external SD when the user "pins" the song for offline access.
You seem the referring to music stored on the SD by other means.
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You are correct in that I want my music stored our pinned on the external memory. It would be great if I could do that between flashing different roms. I am in the process of downloading all the music from play and then stick it in a file on the sd and hopefully Google music will find it
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i have had alot of issues with binding to external SD to where i had to wipe my SD card, what happens is when you save ur files to the sd card it works, but when u reboot, it appears google music starts 1st before your bind does so it thinks ur files are missing and starts dowloading them to internal and it will corrupt ur ext SD card and u have to wipe it, that is what i have been having issues with, but u may not, best of luck to u.
That is good to know. I ended up downloading my entire library and copying it to the sd card. Google music saw the music as stated earlier, however I did not log into my account because it was wanting to double everything. So it kind of fixes my problem, but I am not sure what to do when I buy new music as I did not see a option to just download a album from music manger.
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IMHO, the fact that one can't direct offline music (or the cache for that matter) is a huge design oversight by Google.
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IMHO, the fact that one can't direct offline music (or the cache for that matter) is a huge design oversight by Google.
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totally agree, i don't understand it, u would be more likely to use it, but alot of online music apps are like that
cached music files for google music are in /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.music/files/music move from here to external sd
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
Do you have a lot of screen shots? Those, I believe, get stored on internal storage.
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jpen said:
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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^^^ Good question!
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
Can u give us a screenshot
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I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
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Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
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Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
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Can u give us a screenshot
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Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
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I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
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Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
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Yea that's a whole lot of wasted space. I'm glad it was easy to clear up! Now, don't forget to click thanks.