Hi guys, i want to ask, how to delete "Other files" that we can see in the storage Settings?
I googled and it seems many guide were outdated and can't be applied to MIUI 10, and "other files" just keep getting bigger. It takes 1,4gb in my phone, which is seems big.
Thanks for answering
autumnguardiANs said:
Hi guys, i want to ask, how to delete "Other files" that we can see in the storage Settings?
I googled and it seems many guide were outdated and can't be applied to MIUI 10, and "other files" just keep getting bigger. It takes 1,4gb in my phone, which is seems big.
Thanks for answering
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You just have to go to cleaner app and in that you have to use deep clean. There you'll find useless data occupying space. I deleted my apps data which was showned in deep clean now my other file is 500mb from 1.07gb. I tried and got success without losing my personal data.
Armaghan Ahmad said:
You just have to go to cleaner app and in that you have to use deep clean. There you'll find useless data occupying space. I deleted my apps data which was showned in deep clean now my other file is 500mb from 1.07gb. I tried and got success without losing my personal data.
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Ok thanks, gonna try it later
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After finding out my internal storage available space was getting low much faster than it should, I deleted the cache from google maps, opera (and moved its location to the storage card), but I can't find a way to move the cache from the HTC Album.
It takes around 30Mb on my device, and if I delete it, it'll just get back to that size in a few days.
I know I can just delete it every time it's too big, but I'm guessing it makes the albums loading faster, so if it's possible, I'd prefer not to delete it, but to move it to the storage card instead.
Is it possible to change the default location of the cache?
Thanks
This would be good, I too ended up wondering where all my space had gone only to find the HTC ALBUM cache folder taking up 20MB
Ditto^^
I find it strange because this would ultimately lead to a completely occupied memory over time (given you take enough pictures). You'd think they thought about that...
I can't seem to find anything about this, and after looking at the registry, I didn't find any key that seems to control this either.
Is there so few people bothered by this?
i am as bothered as you (and running with very few storage left), and wait for a solution. Putting the cache not on the storage card was quite dumb from HTC given the very limited storage. Unfortunately, I am a solution leecher, not a seeder.
Mithrandir007 said:
After finding out my internal storage available space was getting low much faster than it should, I deleted the cache from google maps, opera (and moved its location to the storage card), but I can't find a way to move the cache from the HTC Album.
It takes around 30Mb on my device, and if I delete it, it'll just get back to that size in a few days.
I know I can just delete it every time it's too big, but I'm guessing it makes the albums loading faster, so if it's possible, I'd prefer not to delete it, but to move it to the storage card instead.
Is it possible to change the default location of the cache?
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Sorry, probably a noob question but how did you do it for Opera ?
Thanks in advance
It's in the camera settings. Start the camera; select the strange box on the bottom left with an arrow on the side; hit the "settings" wheel - looks like a cart wheel; then you should have a big box in the middle of the screen with settings options; now select the lower left hand box labelled "storage". When you have the "storage" option with the picture of a SD card then that's where the photos will go.
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It's in the camera settings. Start the camera; select the strange box on the bottom left with an arrow on the side; hit the "settings" wheel - looks like a cart wheel; then you should have a big box in the middle of the screen with settings options; now select the lower left hand box labelled "storage". When you have the "storage" option with the picture of a SD card then that's where the photos will go.
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That's not the album cache - that's the camera storage location
alexd83 said:
Sorry, probably a noob question but how did you do it for Opera ?
Thanks in advance
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For Opera, it's not too hard.
Open Opera, and type "opera:config" in the address bar.
You'll then be in the config page, find the section "User Prefs".
In there, you should find something called "Cache Directory4". Just change that path to any directory in your storage card (for example : "\Storage Card\OperaCache").
Cheesy Dave : Thanks for the answer, but as johncmolyneux said, it's the cache I'd like to move to the storage card (which contains the thumbnails of your images along with other information).
The pictures are already going to the storage card.
Thanks for the reply !
Hi, whoops - sorry I misunderstood the question. Now where is the cache kept ?
I did think the question was simple; but, I thought it might help to explain the settings in the camera.
Confession: I've no idea where the cache is kept. Must explore ...
It's kept in \Application Data\HTC\HTC Album\Cache\ in the internal storage.
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It's kept in \Application Data\HTC\HTC Album\Cache\ in the internal storage.
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And how to change it so it goes to another direction?
Filipek88 said:
And how to change it so it goes to another direction?
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OMG.................................... wasn't that the question of this thread???
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OMG.................................... wasn't that the question of this thread???
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LoL
A bit off topic; but the same cache problem applies to the google maps and youtube applications. Offcourse we could always empty the cachefolders manually now and then, but I would still like some kind of tweak to solve this problem.
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I wish I knew
Concerning Youtube I don't know how to do it, but for Google Maps, if you get a new version of Google Maps and chose to install it on the storage card, it will put the cache on the storage card as well.
this came to my attention last night when my phone totally ran out of storage when i wasn't actually storing anything on it. i had about 50 mp3's and 10 pictures but all on the storage card. as i didn't know what to do i reverted to clearing the storage which essentially reset it.
i cant believe this problem isn't topping the forum its a massive issue for me. i monitored the storage during a web browsing session this morning. i lost about 10meg of storage in 20 mins and this wasn't cleared when i ended the session. what i dont understand is opera is set to have a 4 meg cache limit. even if someone works out how to transfer all the cache files to the sd card it wont really help as it will eventually fill that up. is i did very little with my phone in the 1st week of owning it other than surf im fairly sure it must have nearly all been browser cache. 130mb of it1! so in fairly sure it will just keep munching and munching storage.
i now have a very tough decision to make i love this phone but i have 24 hours to send it back to o2 and swap it for something else. whats everyones opinions is this likely to get fixed and how long will it take? or should i give up and get an isheep?
Surely htc could just add an option in settings to empty all cache, or auto empty
@jimsteach
A few posts back up this thread there are instructions for moving the Opera cache to the SD Card - it's pretty much an essential in my book given the storage situation on the device.
I too have trawled the registry trying to find where the Album cache is set, but it looks like HTC have modified the architecture and/or use of the registry in building Sense. I'd also love to be able to move mail to the SD Card, but the normal tweak doesn't work for that either.
The location of album cache seems to be hardcoded in HTCAlbum.exe. The Unicode string "\Application Data\HTC\HTC ALBUM\Cache" occurs 7 times when searching in the file with a hex editor. This weekend I will try to modify HTCAlbum.exe and insert a location to storage card.
What puzzles me most is the size album cache can grow to, it seems almost unlimited. I mean, I have never seen any complaints with other devices. The only reg key I found is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum:cache_serial". Does anyone know what this does?
And another key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS:EnableCache"
Anyone?
For the second time in just a few months I have a notice: "storage space running out of memore".
I have just 99 MB free.
I've deleted even apps that I want but can't seem to find what is using up all the memory.
Internal memory fine, SD fine.
I've moved what ever I can to SD.
My phone: GT -I9100
Android 4.1.2 "up to date"
I really don't want to do a factory reset again and again every few months.
Loking for advice and help.
Thanks,
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For the second time in just a few months I have a notice: "storage space running out of memore".
I have just 99 MB free.
I've deleted even apps that I want but can't seem to find what is using up all the memory.
Internal memory fine, SD fine.
I've moved what ever I can to SD.
My phone: GT -I9100
Android 4.1.2 "up to date"
I really don't want to do a factory reset again and again every few months.
Loking for advice and help.
Thanks,
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If your s2 is rooted download link2sd from the play store then you can move unmoveable apps like facebook to your sd card and also then you can delete bloated apps aswel.
Delete Cache
try deleting the cache.....
It might be taking up your memory.
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try deleting the cache.....
It might be taking up your memory.
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I am not rooted.
When you say delete cache, do you mean individually in each program or is there a way to do a major cache delete somewhere else.
Thanks
Shofar1 said:
I am not rooted.
When you say delete cache, do you mean individually in each program or is there a way to do a major cache delete somewhere else.
Thanks
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search on google play, there is a raft of apps that can help you clean your cache.
Hope this helps
My mate have had this problem. Like 7 apps installed, but no memory left. It just sort of happens. I have not been able to pinpoint the cause of the problem.
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Go into your dialer and key in *#9900# and in the menu that comes up select "Delete dumpstate/logcat". This will free up a lot of unnecessary log files.
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Go into your dialer and key in *#9900# and in the menu that comes up select "Delete dumpstate/logcat". This will free up a lot of unnecessary log files.
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Thanks this did it!!!
Freed up more than 1GB.
I guess this needs to be done periodically.
Great help.
Shofar1
Also go to Settings and check under the storage part what is taken up space, in my SII it was a lot of garbage under DCIM, the photos are stored on the SD card but "small copies" (do not recall what they are called) filled up nearly a GB on my unit. I have a lot of photos on Dropbox etc that are shown on the SII.
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I guess this needs to be done periodically.
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I would guess so, yes. But not too often. How long have you had your phone? (rhetorical question)
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"small copies" (do not recall what they are called) filled up nearly a GB on my unit.
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"Thumbnails", and it's a good idea to delete these now and again. They'll be rebuilt as needed.
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I would guess so, yes. But not too often. How long have you had your phone? (rhetorical question)
I've had my phone I think 3 years. SG II was their newest phone at the time.
I never had this problem till maybe a year ago and not this week.
Thanks again for the "delete" it really seems to have solved the problem.
Last time I couldn't find anyone who could help and went the complete factory reset route.
This is obviously so much better.
Shofar1
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I've had my phone I think 3 years.
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It really was a rhetorical question. I didn't want to know how long you've had your phone. I was pointing out that those logs have built up over that time, 3 years, so it's unlikely that they'll build up to that degree for another 3 years. So you don't need to apply this fix often, maybe once a year or so.
A lot of people are suffering a lack of space on their Samsung phones needlessly, as I did for at least 6 months, through not knowing about this fix. If you find someone else in the same situation, maybe you can help them out.
First of all, I know this have been asked numerous times but I only got more confused of the threads that were aboout this...
My S2 has been showing the message "Insufficient storage available" for the past 8 or 9 months, but it has gotten worse since. At first I couldn't download any big apps, now I can't even download apps that are small (like 5mb). Anyway, I don't exactly know how it started but it probably has something to do with Android 4.x.x ... It has gotten really annoying because I needed to do some necessary updates on certain apps (WhatsApp for example) and I can't use them anymore because of this problem.
It's probably something with System Data. (yes I know I still have about 600mb of apps, but those are either apps I really need or apps that are on my phone as a default.) But as far as I know, I can't reach that System Data... It's just a chunk of (useless??) data that's just there. I don't really what it consists of, because the app (DiskUsage) I used to look into me storage won't let me open that map (as can be seen).
I WANTED TO SHOW A PICTURE HERE BUT I CAN'T SINCE I'M A NEW MEMBER BASICALLY, THE SITUATION IS LIKE THIS:
DATA [2015 MB]
- APPLICATIONS [574 MB]
- SYSTEM DATA [1397 MB]
- FREE SPACE [what's left. this ranges between ~90mb and ~10mb since I clear cache now and then]
I've been to a store with this problem and they basically said that there is nothing I can do... Is there really nothing I can do? I tried wiping my cache but that didn't do enough. I usually clear 90mb of cache when I do this once in every 3 days (after those 3 days I have about 5mb of space left), but like I said, this doesn't do enough.
Any suggestions? Sorry again as I know there are some threads already about this, but I looked into them and didn't really got a lot out of them...
Thanks in advance.
Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
From what I think, it's because of your application files. For example if you always use whatsapp(what I mean here is, if you keep on chatting), it'll store your chat messages into your phone memory which will 'eat' your memory bit by bit. And also, this is from what I've experienced, whenever you uninstalled an application, let's say TubeMate, you'll see tubemate's folder(s) is/are still inside your phone.
So what I'm trying to suggest here is, whenever you want to clear some space, try to delete some of your whatsapp chats or maybe other chat apps that stores chat messages if you don't want to uninstall other app. And when you want to uninstall an application, make sure you delete the app's folders inside your phone.
I'm don't know much about phone memory, so if I'm wrong about it, correct me
p/s: If you can't post link your image since you're new here, you can put your images as attachment.
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Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
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Why haven't I thought of that 2 months ago... I thought that option was only for clearing my storage of calls and texts and since I don't call or text a whole lot, I thought it wouldn't be beneficial.
I've cleared over 1,2 GB by this. Thanks for your help, really appreciate it!
Does every Cyanogenmod rom allow that by default, or dit it die with version 11 or 12 being the last one?
If installing directly to SD is a no go, what good apps are there that do the transfer (and keep everything working, of course
I would recommend Link2SD.
I have used it with satisfaction on several low memory devices.
Not sure why, I find Link2SD and its options terribly confusing Well, I guess I'll need to learn.
There are a lot of guides and it's not so complex.
The best way to use it is to create a second partition on sd (consider a backup of your data on pc/otg/cloud/...).
As far as I can remember link2sd will ask you the filesystem type and then it will create some script to use it.
Then you can simply tap on an app from the list and press "link to sd".
From the apps list you can do a lot of operation like convert apps to system/user app, freeze/unfreeze, merge an updated app to rom etc. and using the filter this kind of operation will be very easy and fast.
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On the plus (paid) version you can link also data.
If you really want to maximize the free space on the device, this option is worth the few moneys.
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I've always used it on other devices using AOSP based roms, I don't know if there are problems using it with MIUI.
Thanks a lot! So, if you "link" (strange choice of word, it's not actually linking if it gets completely moved to SD and nothing remaing in main storage is it, that's what confused the hell out of me), app and its data to SD, will it be exactly like it was downloaded and installed on SD right from the store, like it used to be on Android versions that supported such thing? I know Cyanogenmod 11 did that perfectly, wonder if it's CM thing by default, or did they moved to new (stupid) concept of raping the main storage in later versions
EDIT: Any chance of "linking" bloody Whatsapp to SD completely? I'm in continuous maintenance mode of my wife phone because that **** consumes the storage for all it's worth.
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Thanks a lot! So, if you "link" (strange choice of word, it's not actually linking if it gets completely moved to SD and nothing remaing in main storage is it, that's what confused the hell out of me), app and its data to SD, will it be exactly like it was downloaded and installed on SD right from the store, like it used to be on Android versions that supported such thing?
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Linking is not the same as moving.
For example, if you move to sd and then remove the sd from the device, widgets and app icons will be removed.
Maybe they will be restored when you insert your sd again, but the order could not be the same.
The same doesn't happen linking.
There are also other benefits, try googling for "link2sd faq".
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EDIT: Any chance of "linking" bloody Whatsapp to SD completely? I'm in continuous maintenance mode of my wife phone because that **** consumes the storage for all it's worth.
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I'm not using whatsapp so I don't know if it works.
I guess that your are talking about the "whatapp" directory on which msgs and media are store.
If link2sd can't solve your problem, I think that can try to move the whatsapp directory to sd and then manually create a link (keep the original name) on the original position.
Or you can try with apps like foldermount
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try looking at this thread
Maybe your can try xposed app..xinternalsd..swap sdcard to be phone memory
Lately my storage is increasing without downloading anything at all I cleared cache several times and deleted some items and it still increasing any help?
Kriture said:
Lately my storage is increasing without downloading anything at all I cleared cache several times and deleted some items and it still increasing any help?
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Gallery apps for example crate thumbnails, YouTube and other apps cache files.
Use Apps like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage to identify the junk.
strongst said:
Gallery apps for example crate thumbnails, YouTube and other apps cache files.
Use Apps like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage to identify the junk.
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I cant even download it lol I have no space at all
Kriture said:
I cant even download it lol I have no space at all
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Just uninstall an app and quickly install it. Have you Youtube App for example?
Gonna try it and give you a feedback
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Just uninstall an app and quickly install it. Have you Youtube App for example?
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Ok so i think you dont get me my storage keeps increasing without downloading or doing anything I tried diskusage but It didnt help me in anyway i just removed thumbnails and the storage still full asif i didnt remove anything
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Ok so i think you dont get me my storage keeps increasing without downloading or doing anything I tried diskusage but It didnt help me in anyway i just removed thumbnails and the storage still full asif i didnt remove anything
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I get you. The point is you must identify at which position the storage will be filled. In pictures? In download? Is it an app folder?
That is where disk usage can help you to identify where's the culprit. You can also post a screenshot.
Something fills up your storage, yet we don't know what.
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I get you. The point is you must identify at which position the storage will be filled. In pictures? In download? Is it an app folder?
That is where disk usage can help you to identify where's the culprit. You can also post a screenshot.
Something fills up your storage, yet we don't know what.
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There
Try clearing your cashe. On my phone I usually have about 200mb of cashe when I clear it (I usually do it about once a week when I decide to download a new game or something).
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There
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WhatsApp seems to be the problem since it's uses more than 7GB on the data partition(apps). Whatsapp media including the database is located on data/media as we can see.
I would recommend to uninstall whatsapp and see if it frees the 7GB under apps according to the screenshot.