I'm backing up/cleaning out my phone's storage and I happened across a weird quirk of file copying. If a file name (and associated folder location on my PC) is too long, the file will not copy. This isn't terribly surprising. What is a bit surprising is that the copy operation simply stops, throws no errors, and gives no indication that anything went wrong or on which file things went wrong.
I haven't done any extensive testing of this, but I did some searching and it seems historically some others might have run into this issue (example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2350831)
Not sure if there's a great solution other than modifying offending filenames, but I do find it really strange that there's not even a warning thrown when this happens. Running Win 8, Verizon Note 3 4.4.2 (Jasmine ROM, though I don't think that affects anything).
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Hi!
i was just wondering if anyone else has had this issue... Or if it is even something to be concerned about. When looking in files, I have noticed that the external sd card directory lists its date as being 1969... After something is copied to it, like a backup file, it changes to the current date... Though if a picture is saved on it, it doesn't. but even when it does change it to the current year it at some point changes it back to 1969. Not just on a reboot either. I noticed this when I had a 8 gig card installed and pictures weren't saving correctly... So I put the original card back in (the one with avatar) but the same thing is happening. (though the pics are saving correctly now) I just thought it was strange, and know that on a pc that can indicate a virus. Also worth mentioning I just updated to froyo from jfd and it did it before and is still after updating... Weird.
non-issue?
Okay, so I see no one thinks this is an issue. I know it isn't a question about rooting, or flashing... but the forum is a general q & a right? I just wanted to add that the directory date lists as 12/31/1969 (not just 1969) AND now more directories show the same date. (obviously they did not before, or I wouldn't mention it) I just don't understand why this would be happening. I have ran a virus checker (antivirus free avg) which reports no problems, (although it sometimes locks up the phone)... I am sorry if this is a stupid question... If it is, could someone please just yell... Stupid Question!! ? That'd be fine!
The new directories that have the date are the /proc and the /sys
Hi,
This is one of those crazy days in which questions keeps popping up, and so I create my second thread. :/ Anyways ...
For starters I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with ICS 4.0.4, and my computer is an Apple MacBook with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I was about to go to bed, and wanted to transfer some new wallpapers to my phone via the USB cable. I got error messages when I tried to transfer the files, and noticed that an unrecognized corrupt file appeared when I replugged my phone (several times). After a few retries I decided to restart my Nexus and try again. However, after I had restarted, I observed that my Wallpaper folder (with all my wallpapers) was gone.
It's not a big issue, as they're only wallpapers. However, it might happen again with something more critical, and I'd like to figure this out. I'm an avid Linux user for years, using Gentoo Linux as my main operating system. So I don't mind getting down and dirty, if that's necessary.
My first thought is that it still might be on the partition / SD card / whatever the Nexus has, and I might retrieve it by going down on the file system via adb and fs-tools; if that's even possible.
Any input on how I'm to solve this is greatly appreciated.
Here's a follow up:
Doing anything with ADB was of course limited by the tools I had installed on the device, which gave me almost nothing. Except I could confirm that the folder was definitely not visible (or hidden). Additionally I checked the summed size of /sdcard up against what the system is reporting, and there's about 375 MB which is accounted for but invisible. :'(
This is one of the strangest problems I have ever encountered, so be prepared to be stumped.
I have many android devices, as you can see in my sig. Lately, I have been having problems with pulling files off of all of my devices., Here's what happens.
Say I use mybackup pro. I create a backup of my apps and their data on 9-6-2013. Then I create one on 9-7-2013. If I plug in my device on 9-8-2013, and attempt to copy the 2 backups I made, not all of the files will transfer to my computer.
Guessing that the files are corrupt or something, I deleted them. I create a new backup on 9-8-2013. HOWEVER, when I plug the device back into my computer (doesn't matter which machine), Explorer still shows me the OLD files that I deleted off of the device! It appears that something is caching my device's filesystem but I cannot clear that cache or refresh the device's content list.
This happens with all of my computers and all. of my Android devices. The only similarity is that I am running Windows 7. That's it.
Can someone help me please diffuse this problem?
jerry43812 said:
This is one of the strangest problems I have ever encountered, so be prepared to be stumped.
I have many android devices, as you can see in my sig. Lately, I have been having problems with pulling files off of all of my devices., Here's what happens.
Say I use mybackup pro. I create a backup of my apps and their data on 9-6-2013. Then I create one on 9-7-2013. If I plug in my device on 9-8-2013, and attempt to copy the 2 backups I made, not all of the files will transfer to my computer.
Guessing that the files are corrupt or something, I deleted them. I create a new backup on 9-8-2013. HOWEVER, when I plug the device back into my computer (doesn't matter which machine), Explorer still shows me the OLD files that I deleted off of the device! It appears that something is caching my device's filesystem but I cannot clear that cache or refresh the device's content list.
This happens with all of my computers and all. of my Android devices. The only similarity is that I am running Windows 7. That's it.
Can someone help me please diffuse this problem?
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Ah did some more digging around. It appears it's this known bug.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38282
Solution for now is to reboot before using MTP to copy files off the tablet. Simple enough workaround for now.
Thank you for the reply, even if the thread was necro'd, Lol! At least I finally got an answer
Hi guys,
I'm trying to sync folders between two of my devices (NV Shield K1 and Moto X Play, both running Marshmallow, both rooted). Mostly my goal was to sync savegames between both devices, so I figured the easiest way to go would probably just be syncing the respective app folder in /data/data between devices. I tried doing this by hand via ES Explorer and Google Drive and it worked just fine.
Now, doing this is a hassle, esp. with several games, so I download and tried several syncing apps, eventually ending up with Folder Sync and Ultimate Sync emerging as the best options. Unfortunately, I then ran into a problem I failed to solve over the course of the last three days - frankly, I even failed to fully figure out what the problem is.
What I can say is that only one side of the syncing operations seems to be succeeding, that is the uploading part. Ultimate Sync tells me it's downloading and copying files, but it it is not, as the folders in my local data/data don't get modified. Folder sync was kind enough to give me a log spelling out something bout failing to get path on a null reference(). Long story short, what seems to be working is reading from the root folder to Google Drive, but not writing from Google Drive to the root folder. This is true for both devices and both apps. This is not the fully story though, because the most curious thing is that my primarmy test game, Kingdrom Rush, gets corrupted after an (unsuccessful) syncing event - which makes no sense to me.
Since I was really at a loss, I got SuperSu Pro for access the logging files which seem to confirm (I'm not really fluent in any of those unix cmds though, I just wanted to be able to sync some root folders ^^) that there is a problem with the root access, detecting/writing folders and possibly busy box (which is installed, though I did reinstall just to make sure, and even downloaded one of those verifying tool as well). I'll include some of the log files, as they all contain the same kind of red warning/error messages. Some I keep seeing are these:
stat: can't stat '/data/data/com.ironhidegames.android.kingdomrushorigins/.*': No such file or directory
It sure does exist ...
sush: <stdin>[108]: /system/bin/failsafe/toolbox: not found
The folder does indeed not exist, though /system/bin does include a toolbox FILE. Busybox did not create any folders within that folder, "failsafe" or otherwise.
mount: mounting /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata on /data failed: Device or resource busy
mount: Device or resource busy
mount: mounting /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata on /data failed: Device or resource busy
mount: Device or resource busy
This sounds important
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated since I already wasted more than two days on even getting this far (I spend hours trying different settings and apps always wondering why they behaved so strangely, namely not really updating/ovewriting my local files, thus not really "syncing" anything).
On a final note, Helium does work, but it's not really well suited for the task, I think. I use it to back-up my app data folders (e.g. in case a "failed" sync breaks Kingdrom Rush), but syncing several games seems impractical with it as far as I can tell.
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide. I'm pretty new to Android, but the fact that I cannot seem to manage to atuomatically sync savegames between several device is pretty depressing.
PS: I already made a thread over at XDA Assist, but got no feedback and was advised to try my luck here.
Hello
I'm a newcomer in CM world and the beginnings are rather tough. I have GS2, I installed cm-13.0-20161218-NIGHTLY-i9100.zip yesterday. After the setup, everything seemed perfectly but when I was asked about PIN and typed a correct one, I wasn't let in. A couple of simple, possibly default PINs didnt work as well.
I googled the problem and I found out it's a common issue. All you have to do is re-install TWRP, go into recovery mode, run file manager, find locksettings.dib and remove it.
All right, but I don't have such a file in data/system. In fact, my data folder is empty and it doesn't include any subfolders. What am I supposed to do?
Sorry, if that's a silly one, but I'm just a beginner and I'm pretty disappointed about the effects for now.
Mavoy said:
Hello
I'm a newcomer in CM world and the beginnings are rather tough. I have GS2, I installed cm-13.0-20161218-NIGHTLY-i9100.zip yesterday. After the setup, everything seemed perfectly but when I was asked about PIN and typed a correct one, I wasn't let in. A couple of simple, possibly default PINs didnt work as well.
I googled the problem and I found out it's a common issue. All you have to do is re-install TWRP, go into recovery mode, run file manager, find locksettings.dib and remove it.
All right, but I don't have such a file in data/system. In fact, my data folder is empty and it doesn't include any subfolders. What am I supposed to do?
Sorry, if that's a silly one, but I'm just a beginner and I'm pretty disappointed about the effects for now.
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On the TWRP home screen, select mount and check the "system" box. You should now be able to browse the entire system directory, and find the file you're looking for