Probably a simple solution to this but
Basically I have used the Settings>Storage>Transfer data to SD Card option to free up some memory on the phone but now I can not find the data on the SD card?
3gb of photos nowhere to be found.
Any help is much appreciated.
No ideas?
Maybe a Filemanager (search on the Playstore) could help?
It just shows empty folders using filemanager apps and when direct connected to the pc.
There is appartently over over 10gb used on the card but nothing showing in any folders?
Very frustrating.
Check lost.dir on your sd card, files generally end up there if it's a bad copy
Yep, checked and there are files there.
Tried rooting, fixing SD card permision and repairing/restoring with Recuva and ES File Manager as per a couple of tuts but nothing is working.
Any other ideas?
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I have looked through numerous threads and haven't seen this anywhere. After figuring out that you had to push the SD card in with some elongated device, it always says it's unavailable..... Am I missing something? It's only a 2GB card and is in all the way.
need more data. sdcard is the internal memory. Sdcard2is external card.
what rom you using, how are you trying to see it. try esfile explorer
I'm having some problem with my sd-card. I use a class 4 16 gb SD card and I can browse it using a file manager and even play songs stored within. But some apps cannot detect it. When using the camera, NavDroyd and some apps, it is asking me to attach a card. I tried remounting the card to no avail.
And another thing - I have a torrent app. I started downloading a 2gb file but decided to cancel it. But the free space of my card was still reduced by 2gb although I removed the torrent and data. Any tips on this? Thanks.
Any ideas?
Try to copy what you have on sd card on your pc, then format it and copy the things back on sd card.Have you tried another card? Maybe is a rom problem. And the utorrent thingy, browse the sd-card and check the folder where it downloads the torrents and see if the file is still there, and manually delete it.
If I format my sd-card. do I have to repeat the convertion of ext2 to ext3,etc.. stuffs?
I used the instructions from iJimaniac to swap my storage from internal to external (love the mass storage now!) however all my apps that I originally had moved to the SD card have suddenly disappeared and now i have to remember and re-install them. I made a copy of everything under /mnt/sdcard and moved it to my external SD card before making the switch so that everything would still be linked ok. Any ideas on what went wrong? Note: i took everything on my external SD card and put it in a separate folder on my external SD card so I wouldn't lose any of that.
Well, I used a PC to copy .android_secure folder from the real external_SD to the new "fake" external_SD. If that doesn't work, I would copy back the original vold.fstab then move all apps to internal, then use modified vold.fstab and move your apps back to sd if you want. Remember to reboot after making a change. Several reboots might even be needed for all apps to show up (might want to try that before anything). Hope this helps!
Ok well the problem is apparently that the .android_secure folder on the sd card is empty. Strangely it also has no permissions and refuses to let me change it. Whenever i try to replace it with the full .android_secure folder it gives me a black screen and i have to restart. Any idea what might be wrong?
Well, it might not actually be empty, it looks empty when viewed with an android file browser, but when you look at it on a computer (might need to disable "hide protected system files" in windows folder options) you should see stuff in it. So, you need to copy the .android_secure folder FROM your REAL microSD card TO your REAL internal memory using a pc, not an android file browser. To be clear, I have figured out that android transfers the app to your sd card when you select "move to usb storage", so that can be deceiving. Your apps were on the sd card, but now you need to transfer them to your usb storage by moving the .android_secure folder. Hope you figure it out!
Ah something decided to start working again and all my apps came back! Thanks for your help!
No problem! What was probably wrong was your player was rebuilding the dalvik-cache. It sometimes takes a while I find. Glad you got it working.
So this should be a simple fix, but I cannot seem to free up any internal storage. I only have 75MB available, and now I can't download any more aps. Yes, I've deleted all Cache, SMS, MMS, and moved all possible apps to the SD card. I'm assuming there is a rouge folder with a bunch of crap in it somewhere?
Any ideas?!
Thanks,
Hi
Try to install the SD maid or SD maid pro and check the file which occupying my space
jegavelan said:
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Try to install the SD maid or SD maid pro and check the file which occupying my space
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As I said above, I can't download anything at this point. I'm totally stuck. I have Astro to browse, and history eraser, but that's it!
connect via usb to a computer and use storage analyser on the internal sd...delete whatever is taking up space.
When i connect USB cable to my SGS3 to access content of external SD card I see multiple duplicates of folders on the root of the card. There are 3-5 instances of all folders on root of the card with exactly the same names. Some folders are empty, some of them have files without extensions, some of them seem to be real folders with real content in them.
I have tried to checkdisk with error fixing on my PC for this card in a card reader. It didn't help. The folders, when card is used in a card reader are OK, they aren't having any duplicates. I have tried to format SD card for a few times already and then transfer my data from PC to card again, it didn't help and was getting worse after each such try as the number of folder duplicates was just increasing then.
ES File Explorer isn't showing any duplicates.
This thing is really annoying and makes me mad.
Please suggest me any cure for that. Thanks in advance
MTP mode is heavily flawed, hopefully an update fixes it.
If you're rooted you can use Easy UMS Apk (see General section) to mount the external Sd in Mass storage mode on your computer
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Thanks, it seems to work