Hi all,
I noticed that under My Files the device storage is taken up mostly by "others" (the blue portion of the meter). I've cleaned up thumbnail files, cache (downloaded and used a cache cleaner) yet I still can't figure out what or where these "other" files are! I know bloatware is roughly around 6 gb, could that be the issue?
AscendedWisdom said:
Hi all,
I noticed that under My Files the device storage is taken up mostly by "others" (the blue portion of the meter). I've cleaned up thumbnail files, cache (downloaded and used a cache cleaner) yet I still can't figure out what or where these "other" files are! I know bloatware is roughly around 6 gb, could that be the issue?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Those are the app files.
Related
found a novel way of stopping the htc album cache filling the phone memory up.
deleted the cache files, viewed one image to create the cache files again (but only taking few 100k). then set all files to read only.
albums still work ok, the hd2 is so quick generating the thumbnails i dont see the need to cache them at all
i need to see if zero length read only cache files will work also
how many photos do you have? it would take A LOT of photos of to fill uip the HD2 internal memory with thumbnail generation, even on a stock rom with less free space than a custom rom
I have 52 pictures in the HTC Album thing on Sense (although I have about 500 dotted across the storage card which dont get opened) and mine goes upto 28Mb quickly
have over 200 pics now after just three months ownership, that will continually grow, so yes i consider it a problem
dexterslab said:
found a novel way of stopping the htc album cache filling the phone memory up.
deleted the cache files, viewed one image to create the cache files again (but only taking few 100k). then set all files to read only.
albums still work ok, the hd2 is so quick generating the thumbnails i dont see the need to cache them at all
i need to see if zero length read only cache files will work also
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, it seems to function on my HD2. Will stay tuned, my cache files are still 1,5 MB ...
have just tried deleting all the cache files and replacing them with zero length read-only files, which also works
dexterslab said:
have just tried deleting all the cache files and replacing them with zero length read-only files, which also works
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did the same, it works fine.
It's really an inventive solution for that old album cache problem
dexterslab said:
have just tried deleting all the cache files and replacing them with zero length read-only files, which also works
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
how did u do that?
Hmm, really wierd. I just noticed today something unexpected happened. In the app manager under downloaded, it says device memory is 8.1GB free. But under storage it says avail space 6.3GB free. So which is right? I installed like 4 apps today and there's not any that would use anywhere close to 2GB. not sure if some apps screw this up. Any idea what I should do?
Also under storage, misc section it says 1.7GB used but clicking on it doesn't show anything using more than a few hundred kb.
Edit: well, i finally found the culprit. I went to application manager and click on the recent apps I used today. the google drive cache shows 1.6GB. cleared that cache restores the free space in storage to the expected 8GB.
It's crazy about these things. How the hell did google drive cache get to 1.6GB? I justed installed that today and just used it one time to upload a 400MB video file to the cloud.... This really put a bad taste to start out. Think i might just have to uninstall it.. HAd to go into google drive and did a clear cache and set cache to 25 mb.
Also went into \Phone\Android\data\com.google.android.apps.docs\files\pinned_docs_files_do_not_edit folder. deleted the .thumbnail file that was 400MB and created a dummy file with same name to prevent android from recreating this file. Gallery browsing still works afterward, possibly slower but who fcking care if it would take 5 more secs to load my images if this can prevent massive built up of this file eventually.
Under the misc files section in storage, it still says 500MB. Would be nice to be able to clean out even more. Anyone can share some more tips for cleaning out these kind of garbage comsumming space?
Thumbnails is making phone storage very low for new data
While I have 64gb sd card that I have to move stuff to it regularly
I want some way to make the sd card is the default for everything
Or at least for these huge thumbnails as a start
I have Xperia z2 3g lollipop 5.1.1. The A.1. 232 version
Same problem here
Gesendet von iPad mit Tapatalk
Can you pinpoint the app that is storing such large tumbnail cache? This is not normal behaviour and can be considered as a bug. You can use CCleaner from the app store to clean this thumbnail cache. Try to do it regularly. I would uninstall the app that is causing this, this can happen if youre using more gallery apps or more file managers. You can use many cache cleaning apps like CM cleaner or Clean Master too to do this.
I think it is the Stock photo app
tre1980 said:
I think it is the Stock photo app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Then do a system cache cleaning, this is possible even trough recovery but the simplest way is to use CCleaner frim the app strore. Try it but if you get that huge cache again then something is definitely wrong.
Yeah some problem here, my thumbdata is only about 1gb but i don't have a ton of photos on my phone, i can imagine this file getting bigger if there are lot's of photos on the phone.
Deleting the files will not solve the problem as android will recreate them very fast. I see and understand the purpose of the thumbdata files but there should be a way to set max size and location for this files...
IF anyone figures a nice solution for this problem please post :good:
Edit: just had an ideia, maybe we could move the folder thumbnails to external sdcard and use foldermount or links2sd to link it to the internal memory? i can't test this right now cause i'm at work but i'll try it later if i have time.
Thanks.
I still insist this is too large thumbnail cache. There may be leftover pics thumbnails that are deleted but thumbs are still here and thats why I propose a cleaning. 5gb worth of thumbs would be equal to 50gb worth of pictures. Sony album app creates thumbs where images are located so its wise to move pics to sd card and set camera to store pics on the sd card and then thumbnails will be recreated on the sd card in DCIM folder.
- First remember the name of the /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata file, f.e. .thumbdata3--1967290299
(if you have two files, like me, remember also the second name)
- delete this file (s)
- create a new file (or more) with the same name of the file (s) you just deleted, f.e. .thumbdata3--1967290299
that's it. Android from on is not able to create a new large thumbnail file.
Well, actually, this is not the solution for moving the .thumbnail file to sdcard, but it helps to free a lot of memory - forever.
My low budget old phone has limited internal storage and having less than 1 GB of free space i used cleaner apps to ged rid of unnecessary junk. One of the apps found 2 hidden .thumbdata files of 1.15 GB each.
I deleted them, but didn't get free space.
Tested the solutions found on the internet but it didn't work. A new file of aprox 68 MB was generated when gallery was opened again .
Because some people on the internet claim it's a sparse file, i wanted to check it by opening it in a text or hex editor. I managed to open
such a big file in a single one(NMM hex editor) and noticed there is some data only towards the end of the file, what is also confirmed by the "ls" and "du" command.
It is interesting what the editor info says - looks some kind of mounted partition/space(i don't know how to call it), other text editors call it 7190, so it's definety not a normal file with that size in the DCIM folder. Even when almost empty , the system "books" the space from the file and doesn't allow the phone user to benefit from it.
My opinion is that my first deleted files were also space left "mounted" after the erase of the 2 huge thumbdata files.
Has anyone an idea what it is ?
Okay so to start off, I was digging around in my phone a couple days ago (Keep in mind this is a white 16 gig S4 on CM13). And i stumbled across a weird folder, it was a faded one (I did have hidden files on). So I tapped and opened the folder, and for some reason, It was loading so slow (s4s pretty fast storage wise for me), but that slowed it down.
And as ES File Explorer was showing me, there was 44,000+ files. In that very folder alone. So I wondered what it could be (was a ton of old stuff I knew I had deleted).
But the strange thing about it is, once I selected each and every photo, the total amount of storage space used made no sense, it was using 24.6gigs of storage.
My phone remember is only a 16 gig model. But the folder took up 24.6 gigs, and I know it wasn't the sd card, since that was practically full of other things and wasn't in the phone at the time. After moving or trying to move it all to windows, I wound up with about 7000+ photos and 2 12+ gig files that can't be opened nor used at all. it gave me about a gig and a half back in storage as well. (phone has about 6-7+ used with 1.94 or 2.40 left after clearing cache and what not.)
What I'd like to know, has anyone had this 'issue' before as well or do they know what it could be?
I found it in DCIM>Thumbnails. Any information would be very helpful. It still bogs me as to why that happens.
it's function is for gallery apps to show thumbnails. and for the size, maybe the files where a file representing your data partition? very strange.
RDChase said:
it's function is for gallery apps to show thumbnails. and for the size, maybe the files where a file representing your data partition? very strange.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmmm, could be but my data partition is no where near that size. It could of been compressed files, but I'm pretty sure 24.6 gigs would equal a decent 10 or more gig file, and to add to that, after deleting that first one. Two more popped up, each at 25 and 26 gigs respectively, I have no clue what the issue is. But it's only present on cm 13. Cm14 and 14.1 do not give me that issue.
Hello people.
I'm using LG G6 for 3 month now, started to drop some large video files on my internal storage and deleting them after watching.
Yesterday I've noticed that i have no free space left.
Run the diagnosis tool, no temp files, no nothing.
Built in storage app says i have 12g in other category, nothing so big in there.
Downloaded storage analyzer, says i have only 22g instead of 32.
Any ideas pleease?
Thanks in advance.
mdshooter said:
Hello people.
I'm using LG G6 for 3 month now, started to drop some large video files on my internal storage and deleting them after watching.
Yesterday I've noticed that i have no free space left.
Run the diagnosis tool, no temp files, no nothing.
Built in storage app says i have 12g in other category, nothing so big in there.
Downloaded storage analyzer, says i have only 22g instead of 32.
Any ideas pleease?
Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
G6 have only 22GB of internal memory available, that's normal if you don't have the 64GB model.
You opened my eyes
Thanks mate!
You opened my eyes, the app said Android, i thought its the system folder, once you said its ok to have 22g, i understood that it's without system.
So went to android folder and found my lost 10.5g as some trashcan folder, weird why its not auto deleted or cleaned with temp files.
So now i have all the space back.
Thanks!
mdshooter said:
Thanks mate!
You opened my eyes, the app said Android, i thought its the system folder, once you said its ok to have 22g, i understood that it's without system.
So went to android folder and found my lost 10.5g as some trashcan folder, weird why its not auto deleted or cleaned with temp files.
So now i have all the space back.
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Glad that you solved =)