Today i notice that i can't save anymore in my sdcard.i Check my sdcard using diskusage application,i saw that 20 GB of my sdcard space is taken by system data.
What this? And how can i delete this ??
Don't worry,i fix it.
I connect the sd card to my pc,and i saw one hidden folder which not showing in any file browser in my phone even if i enable the hidden folders ( strange)
The name of this folder is : Found.000 which have 19.8 GB in size.
I delete it and everything is back to normal again
did it happen again? the point is to find why does this happen and
I have the same issue when I delete large files or folders,
they are moved in system data,
I haven't found the culprit yet
It's windows "fault".
You can read more here https://www.howtogeek.com/282798/what-are-the-found000-folder-and-file0000chk-file-in-windows/
ok but why does Android move to system data instead of delete?
patrickdrd said:
did it happen again? the point is to find why does this happen and
I have the same issue when I delete large files or folders,
they are moved in system data,
I haven't found the culprit yet
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Have you solved anyway?
I have the same problem, no hidden folder found.
I had to backup my data on PC and then format it.
I formatted my card as exfat, it was the only way my files would delete immediately
patrickdrd said:
I formatted my card as exfat, it was the only way my files would delete immediately
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my card is formatted as exfat yet, what filesystem have you used before?
tapioco2000 said:
my card is formatted as exfat yet, what filesystem have you used before?
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the one android uses (at least my nougat used that)
when you select format option from the settings menu,
i.e. fat32
same problem in internal memory
Hello, I have the same problem but in internal memory.
Any idea to solve in this case?
Many thanks
Related
Yesterday I downloaded NOVA 3 for my S2 - a process which took about 8 hrs !
After playing the game I found it wasnt for me so I deleted the app.
However the sdcard has not 'freed up' the 1.8G of data space. I`ve rescanned the card, checked all files I can think of on both internal & ext sd cards but cant find an appropriate file, the gameloft folder just has data for another game. I read somewhere about the LOST+FOUND file in /system but this is empty too. anyone come across this before ?
robinta said:
Yesterday I downloaded NOVA 3 for my S2 - a process which took about 8 hrs !
After playing the game I found it wasnt for me so I deleted the app.
However the sdcard has not 'freed up' the 1.8G of data space. I`ve rescanned the card, checked all files I can think of on both internal & ext sd cards but cant find an appropriate file, the gameloft folder just has data for another game. I read somewhere about the LOST+FOUND file in /system but this is empty too. anyone come across this before ?
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App removal did nothing to game's cache, which is stored on your SD Card. It chould be in Android folder on your internal memory. Just search for "nova".
hi. I cant find any file like this. Ive ran a search from root and its pulled up nothing for NOVA. When you say internal memory - do you mean at root level or the internal sdcard ?
robinta said:
hi. I cant find any file like this. Ive ran a search from root and its pulled up nothing for NOVA. When you say internal memory - do you mean at root level or the internal sdcard ?
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Sorry. I was being thick. I've found this folder but the only relevant files I can see relate to 2 other gameloft games I have installed, could the data be elsewhere or is it a different type of error perhaps ?
solved !
Found it... the data was in external_SD/android/data..and the file name didn't show Nova but n3. Thanks to all.
Hi,
I did a backup using Titanium Backup and Go Backup and after wiping my Motorola Defy, tried to restore apps, contacts etc.
The problems I encountered were:
1) Go Backup can't recognize backup directory on SD card for some reason.
2) Can't move apps to SD. An error occurs: "Move Application: Failed to move application. There is not enough storage left." Needless to say, I have more than enough storage.
This is was I encountered by far, although I believe these are just a small part of the symptoms for a single problem.
Maybe its because there are no permissions, or moving apps is impossible because of an existing app files on the SD card.
Does anyone know what is the actual cause for this?
Or is there a tool to fix the permissions on the Defy?
Thanks ahead!
See if any of your other partitions are full or close to full.
post-mortem said:
See if any of your other partitions are full or close to full.
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I have no partitions on my SD card
No, I mean the internal memory of the device.
post-mortem said:
No, I mean the internal memory of the device.
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Does it has to do with the moving app to the SD card?
And it seems I do have a little space for apps, but how should I check it anyway?
The easiest way is to run Link2SD -> menu -> Storage Info
This will show all the mounted partitions, and space used/free.
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The easiest way is to run Link2SD -> menu -> Storage Info
This will show all the mounted partitions, and space used/free.
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Internal: 103mb used, 25mb free
SD: 8.71gb used, 6.12gb free
SD 2nd: not found
System: 178mb used, 148mb free
Cache: 16.29mb used, 177mb free
No idea?
I tried that:
1) Deleted the GO Backup directory
2) Removed the app
3) Re-installed the app
4) Copied back the backup from my PC
I could then see use the backup, but I still can't move apps to SD
Something must be jamming it
Can it be something with the mounts?
I haven't used Go Backup, so I have no experience with it, but it does seem that it's somehow involved/responsible. I noticed they have an update as of yesterday, so you can see if it makes any difference.
Have you tried putting your SD card into your computer? Does it function normally? Can you run a disk check on the card from your computer?
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I haven't used Go Backup, so I have no experience with it, but it does seem that it's somehow involved/responsible. I noticed they have an update as of yesterday, so you can see if it makes any difference.
Have you tried putting your SD card into your computer? Does it function normally? Can you run a disk check on the card from your computer?
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The problem is not with GoBackup, as it works now.
The problem must be with something jamming access to the SD card.
I tried to run a check from my PC and I get "No problems found"
And now, for some reason the phone activity crashes after I terminate a call
Well, all the applications I installed where installed using Titanium Backup.
While trying to install from Play Store, the device crashes.
It uses CM 7.2.
So it might be a permission problem in the device itself.
I have a big problem..
On the internal SD there's the folder Android/Data - there's another folder that I can't delete.
Reason I want to delete it is the fact, that there's something wrong with one of the cache folders.
Properties shows me size of 64.7GB (!!!!!) and there are some files with cryptic data names in it...
I tried everything: Root Explorer (phone is rooted with Wanamlite 4.1.2, v14.1), Formating USB Storage, Access from Recovery...
No way to get rid of this funny folder that is 5 times bigger than USB storage actually is
Any idea what I could do?
Thank you for your help.
Ralph
I think this is a bug.... Do you have more than 70gb on the phone? How can you have a 67gb folder on the phone?
Use Clean Master (free on the Market) to clear space. Don't go deleting files/folders that seem large.
Sent from my digital submersible hovercraft.
f-r said:
I think this is a bug.... Do you have more than 70gb on the phone? How can you have a 67gb folder on the phone?
Use Clean Master (free on the Market) to clear space. Don't go deleting files/folders that seem large.
Sent from my digital submersible hovercraft.
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Hi - yes it is a bug - 67GB are impossible - the folder is on the internal SD (12GB space if empty).
Problem is that this folder "influences" phone functionality...from time to time my phone tells me that I don't have space left on the internal SD Card..At the same time Storage-Manager tells me that there are 7GB left..
After a Reboot phone works normal until this buggy folder is accessed by the system..then again "no space"..
That's why I would like to deleted the cache folder. But folder can't be deleted...I tried everything..just "format emmc" from recovery is left.
Any idea how I can access the folder an delete?
Also have the same problem. Tried formatting emmc and its still there. Everything works fine i just cant remove this folder.
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xtc399 said:
I have a big problem..
On the internal SD there's the folder Android/Data - there's another folder that I can't delete.
Reason I want to delete it is the fact, that there's something wrong with one of the cache folders.
Properties shows me size of 64.7GB (!!!!!) and there are some files with cryptic data names in it...
I tried everything: Root Explorer (phone is rooted with Wanamlite 4.1.2, v14.1), Formating USB Storage, Access from Recovery...
No way to get rid of this funny folder that is 5 times bigger than USB storage actually is
Any idea what I could do?
Thank you for your help.
Ralph
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Same here, unable to delete those sub-folder, no solution found yet...
Any Solution
richard_tsang said:
Same here, unable to delete those sub-folder, no solution found yet...
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Did you guys get any solution to this problem? I am having same issue, Formatted the phone still the same problem.
Try this
*#9900#
Option 2
And then try deleting it
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piyushsangawat said:
Did you guys get any solution to this problem? I am having same issue, Formatted the phone still the same problem.
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Same problem here, anyone with any clues? Even tried formatting the entire data partition in recovery, still no joy.
It has been preventing me from installing a certain app, as the undeletable folder relates to a previous installation of it. I have been able to rename it however, and that's enough to get the app to reinstall.
Still got that annoying folder though!!
vishal11in said:
Try this
*#9900#
Option 2
And then try deleting it
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Didn't work for me, invalid code or something.
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Didn't work for me, invalid code or something.
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that is because you rom is missing factory test file.
My SGS2 has a variety of issues. Typical bootsequence: phone boots without mounting external sdcard. Writing permissions to internal sd works only after ~20% of the reboots. I mount external sd manually through menu option. After this step writing permissions to internal sd never works.
I used the app DiskUsage and noticed that a particular folder had files occupying tens of gigabytes. The folder was: /storage/sdcard0/android/data/com.ideashower.readitlater.pro/files/ril_offline/ril_assets/cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images , which belongs to the Pocket application.
(While scanning, the app goes to ~460% and warns that the filesystem might be cyclic or something similar.)
I already tried this and it didn't work:
delete folder/its files with ES File Explorer
delete folder with terminal (having superuser access)
delete folder via adb
I always got an error message saying I only have read access to these files. Changing the permissions doesn't work with either adb or superuser terminal. (This particular lack of permissions for these files is not the same as the lack of writing permissions to the whole sdcard.)
I did however just now regain writing permission to internal sdcard by freezing the Pocket app with Titanium backup (equivalent to uninstalling). This was inspired by the post by xtc399 above saying that
After a Reboot phone works normal until this buggy folder is accessed by the system
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. I have also read somewhere else that the existence of folder(s) with tons of files creates the problem with writing permissions to internal sdcard, and my Pocket read-list is huge thereby downloading very many files to android/data/.
The big files are still there. Could it be a hardware problem in the memory? And it seems related to the permission issue on internal sdcard.
I had the same problem: I could not open the gallery and other apps due to insufficient space. On my 16 GB USB memory, I also found huge files (412 GB) that belonged to the Pocket app (former Read It Later), with cryptic file names. The path was: sdcard0/android/data/com.ideashower.readitlater.pro/files/ril_offline/ril_assets/...
I tried deleting the files and formatting the USB storage - unfortunately without success, as you all described. Then I found this solution which solved the problem:
https://marcowue.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/howto-korrupten-internen-speicher-sdcard-unter-android-fixen/
Following the instructions (in german language), i successfully used adb and the partitioning tool parted to reset the partion. The reason was a corrupt file system, which forced the USB storage into a read-only mode. To solve this issue, you will need a rooted device.
internal memory was full. was trying to shift DCIM folder using CUT-->PASTE (ES explorer App) from internal to external SD card, but used the skip paste option since external already had a dcim folder and i didnt want to overwrite it.
when i rechecked the internal memory the DCIM folder had disappeared from internal memory because of using "cut" instead of "copy"
how do i recover the lost DCIM folder?
You might be able to use a data recovery tool but more than likely it's gone forever mate.
Try using DiskDigger photo recovery... It's found on the Play Store.
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You might be able to use a data recovery tool but more than likely it's gone forever mate.
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files are still there since i havent over written the free space. problem is the directory structure has been deleted. i need a program to recreate the directory structure maybe.
chromeopx said:
Try using DiskDigger photo recovery... It's found on the Play Store.
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tried it. it didnt work. i need a program which recreates the folder structure .
There are so many programs i can use to recover files but they wont work because i cant mount the Internal Memory so that it shows up as a regular partition in windows. Just useless MTP mode. UMS mode needs to come back for the Internal memory.
psychem said:
There are so many programs i can use to recover files but they wont work because i cant mount the Internal Memory so that it shows up as a regular partition in windows. Just useless MTP mode. UMS mode needs to come back for the Internal memory.
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If you had access to linux and a data recovery tool for Linux you may have a chance. Windows cannot mount the internal storage since it uses either EXT4 or F2FS, both filesystems that Windows can't read.
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If you had access to linux and a data recovery tool for Linux you may have a chance. Windows cannot mount the internal storage since it uses either EXT4 or F2FS, both filesystems that Windows can't read.
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i have linux mint boot usb key but how will it help? MTP is a bottleneck at the phone end. MTP wont allow mounting internal memory even in linux.
Hey all, Actually the problem arise after installing custom roms. Now after installing basics apps like whatsapp, Facebook, instagram, and others (8-9 apps) the phone gives me notification of Not enough memory. While My friend with same model (XT1506) have installed 15-19 apps (Lineage OS).
Can anyone help me? :crying:
shaktiman01 said:
Hey all, Actually the problem arise after installing custom roms. Now after installing basics apps like whatsapp, Facebook, instagram, and others (8-9 apps) the phone gives me notification of Not enough memory. While My friend with same model (XT1506) have installed 15-19 apps (Lineage OS).
Can anyone help me? :crying:
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You should've wiped the internal storage too. Sometimes, what happens is that on flashing a new rom without wiping the internal storage, the contents of internal storage move to some other directory. So, when you'll browse the root of internal storage ( /0 ), you won't find the data there, nor the pics and videos will be shown in gallery or some video player; but the files are still there on internal storage.
So there's two things you can do:-
1) Use any root file manager, like ES explorer, to manually locate the folder. I think its somewhere in the /storage or in the /mnt/user or any other directory. But, its confirmed that it will be in mnt or storage directory only. If found, you can delete the data or copy it back.
OR
2) You can boot into twrp. Make a backup of current rom. Wipe everything including internal storage. And then restore the backup. This is much easier but time consuming, i guess.
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You should've wiped the internal storage too. Sometimes, what happens is that on flashing a new rom without wiping the internal storage, the contents of internal storage move to some other directory. So, when you'll browse the root of internal storage ( /0 ), you won't find the data there, nor the pics and videos will be shown in gallery or some video player; but the files are still there on internal storage.
So there's two things you can do:-
1) Use any root file manager, like ES explorer, to manually locate the folder. I think its somewhere in the /storage or in the /mnt/user or any other directory. But, its confirmed that it will be in mnt or storage directory only. If found, you can delete the data or copy it back.
OR
2) You can boot into twrp. Make a backup of current rom. Wipe everything including internal storage. And then restore the backup. This is much easier but time consuming, i guess.
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Actually after last flashing (cm12.1), I wiped the internal storage (and sdcard too). But still I can't install a single app after the counting of 9. I tried the same thing I do (flashing without wiping internal) but still he can install 10-15 apps from play store (20+ from side loading). And actually I was fed up with all this
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Actually after last flashing (cm12.1), I wiped the internal storage (and sdcard too). But still I can't install a single app after the counting of 9. I tried the same thing I do (flashing without wiping internal) but still he can install 10-15 apps from play store (20+ from side loading). And actually I was fed up with all this
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Maybe your size of data partition have changed. I thibk there's an option in twrp to resize the partitions. But, I can't suggest you doing it, since I haven't performed it myself. You can try in your own risk though.
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Maybe your size of data partition have changed. I thibk there's an option in twrp to resize the partitions. But, I can't suggest you doing it, since I haven't performed it myself. You can try in your own risk though.
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OK I'll try.... And give you feedback
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Maybe your size of data partition have changed. I thibk there's an option in twrp to resize the partitions. But, I can't suggest you doing it, since I haven't performed it myself. You can try in your own risk though.
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See no "User" folder in \mnt
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See no "User" folder in \mnt
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I told you, the data has got to be somewhere in the /mnt or /storage directory. It has many sub-directories and you have to check all of them.
And, btw, I have this path /mnt/user/0/ which has some symlink to internal memory.
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I told you, the data has got to be somewhere in the /mnt or /storage directory. It has many sub-directories and you have to check all of them.
And, btw, I have this path /mnt/user/0/ which has some symlink to internal memory.
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Which file explorer/browser you are using?
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Which file explorer/browser you are using?
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Its SOLID EXPLORER. Well, I prefer a two year old version of es explorer but that doesn't seem to get root permissions on Nougat, don't know why.
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Its SOLID EXPLORER. Well, I prefer a two year old version of es explorer but that doesn't seem to get root permissions on Nougat, don't know why.
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I am using that on cm12.1