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.
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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.
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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.
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So I had copied a LOT of large files to and from my Vibrants internal storage. I noticed I was down to 500 Megs (on the 16 gig), and I couldn't for the life of me find where these magic huge files were. I cleared off all videos, roms, pretty much anything that was taking up space and it wasn't making a dent.
Checking just the folders in view reported like 4gigs used. Checking the drive itself reported almost 12.5gigs used.
I found the .trashes (hidden) dir on the internal SD card which had over 8Gigs of trash to be removed. Any one know how to get rid of this NOT from a PC/MAc?
Anyway... its been removed, and i have a ton of space left. Just thought I would mention it to anyone having a similar issue.
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So I had copied a LOT of large files to and from my Vibrants internal storage. I noticed I was down to 500 Megs (on the 16 gig), and I couldn't for the life of me find where these magic huge files were. I cleared off all videos, roms, pretty much anything that was taking up space and it wasn't making a dent.
Checking just the folders in view reported like 4gigs used. Checking the drive itself reported almost 12.5gigs used.
I found the .trashes (hidden) dir on the internal SD card which had over 8Gigs of trash to be removed. Any one know how to get rid of this NOT from a PC/MAc?
Anyway... its been removed, and i have a ton of space left. Just thought I would mention it to anyone having a similar issue.
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The .Trashes folder is created by OSX when you drag files into the trash. It's how the OS keeps track of what you've moved to the trash, but not quite deleted. It's a great way to do it on your computer's HD, but it's a horrible way to handle it on a removable drive. To alleviate the problem, after you delete files from your phone, empty your trash on you computer. Alternatively, rm -r /sdcard/.Trashes and rm -r /sdcard/sd/.Trashes works equally well.
Alternatively if you're on a pc, hold the shift key down when you press delete and the files will actually be deleted instead if being moved to your trash.
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Also, IIRC the internal SD card may be 16GB, but it is partitioned into 3 partitions. Those partitions are mounted at /data, /data_tmo, and /sdcard. /data and /data_tmo are used to store the apps you install (as well as some of the pre-loaded apps, perhaps) and their data.
In the Settings, if you open "SD card and phone storage", combine Phone storage and Application storage, and you'll have to 16GB (after it's been formatted and represented in base-2 instead of base-10, which means it'll be closer to 14 or 15).
Hi all.
Today I noticed that in last 2 days I had lost around 300 photos from the SD card. I had around 600 photos on Thursday, more than half are gone (randomly, couldn't see a pattern for leftover photos). On Friday I upgraded the phone to .6 from .3, it wiped out the phone but was not supposed to delete anything from SD card. My music and video files seem to be not affected, ebooks are also untouched. SD card itself seems to be working fine, no corrupted files, no unusual files/folders on it. I don't think it was the upgrade but have no idea what could have happened. Before the upgrade I had to install HTC sync, to get the driver. Does it do something by default? Does it sync/remove any files?
We just came back from vacation. Most of the pictures were taken on my camera, but I had good amount of shots on the phone. It's my fault for not coping everything before the update but I wanted to know if you had seen anything like that.
My only hope is to check the work computer that I used for upgrade, but I don't think sync would move files without any notice.
This may not be what happened to you but i did have a friend that did the upgrade OTA, there wasnt enough space on his SD card for the OTA file, plus i guess it also needs extra space to swap files. Therefore, in his situation files on the sd were randomly overwritten. Anyway this im getting 3rd party from him so it might not apply to you but thought id toss it out there.
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Did the pics get moved to LOST.DIR? Sometimes when you plug your phone into a computer and don't eject or unmount the card, some files get corrupted and moved there. It sucks cuz it removes the extension, and changes the file name to a number, but sometimes you can just add the jpg extensions and save the pics. It's worth a try.
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Yep. Same thing happened to me. I wasn't doing any kind of upgrade or anything. Still had 4+ Gigs free on my SDcard. Opened up the gallery and it only had 10 pictures in it. 90something pics just gone. I checked LOST.DIR and there is one big file in there around 140MB. Can't find a way to extract it.
Luckily, I had a backup on my laptop that was only a couple of days old so I got most of my pics back, but still annoying.
LOST.DIR has one small file.
I didn't think about not enough space on SD. I had around 300Mb when started the update, I didn't have to copy anything to the card, it was ran from the computer.
My lesson (again and again): there is not enough backup.
Thanks for replies!
So I have enabled the my interests wallpaper which changes high def wallpaper every few hours. I am liking it so far..the problem is that I cannot find where these wallpapers are being saved at. Given that a new one is downloaded every 3 hours, it is my concern that this will take a bite out of my internal storage. I have located the "Image" folder in the gallery but this only have 7 images and none that I have ever seen so I am thinking these are the stock Samsung images.
Anyone have an idea where these images are stored at?
The images are probably stored in RAM after its downloaded and then kept in cache temporarily for future use without re-downloading it again. I imagine it wont be a big file so you wont see a dip in ur internal storage. Luckily, our Note 4 has it's SD-card option for another 200GB (or 128, 64, 32 & 16)
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
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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
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I think it is the Stock photo app
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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 ?
Hey Guys
No clue WTF is up with my Note 4 but I all of a sudden got a heads up this afternoon that I was running out of local storage space and needed to clear up some files to make room.
I store everything (app files and all photos etc) on my 64GB card and, last I checked, I had about 12GB of space left on the phone with 7.5GB of OS usage.
According to my phone I was down to 400MB and my phone was feeling a little warm while just sitting on the table.
So I connected it to my PC, removed an old camera folder and a few other things and got it up to 3.56GB but still way too low and all visible folders to me are low in size so something is going on within the system files hidden away to be chewing up 21.6GB of space.
Within 3-4 mins of freeing up the 3.56GB of space, it dropped to 2.4GB!?
So I checked the storage on the phone itself and it was showing only 1.8GB available.
Within 5 mins it was down to 889MB and there is has remained.
I cannot figure out WHAT is writing so much to my phone that is is chewing up 10+ GB?
Anyone else ever experience this?
Could it be Google Photos but if so, why would it write anything to my phone vs uploading it to the cloud?
I installed 2 apps 2 days ago, both for my Mi Band 1S and they appear to be using next to nothing storage and battery wise so I am not sure what is up but it is driving me nuts.
Appreciate any input, advice, or ideas!
Cheers :good:
Use the "SD card Analyst" feature in ES file Explorer or similar feature in other file managers to see size of each folders in SD and External SD.
Mmm but the issue isn't with my SD card but rather the local main storage.
Or are you suggesting the SD card has something to do with that?
Cheers
Was thinking about a system update, but 10GB is a lot.
Strange stuff, hope you get it solved, kinda curious what it could be.
Perhaps it would help if you posted model and firmware version.
Kind regards, Stefan.
Yeah I wondered the same thing but I do not think Rogers has the 6.0 update rolling out yet...I should get it by the time 7.0 is out :|
Well my phone, just now, plummeted down to 15mb of onboard storage left and all I did was take a couple of photos (I choose to save all photos to my 64GB SD card).
I am wondering if Google Photos is caching a ton of info in a hidden folder somewhere after the latest update?
It told me to delete photos since they are uploaded to t Google Photos but those files are on my SD card and yet it is telling me I am running out of space.
Figured it out!
Even though my photos are tossed to the SD card after taking them, Google Photos decides to store ALL your photos in a hidden folder within the system files WTF Google.
I had 18GB of photos so I cleared the Google Photos cache and all good.
Cannot wait for 6.0 and using expandable memory as internal storage.
Hello, i have got the same behavior. After checking which app is the bigger one, I found that google photo took about 14Gb!
I have deinstalled this app and reinstall it. It is fine just for 2days and I have just double check this morning that I have lost again more than 4Gb in one night....
It seems that this memory leaks happens only when connected to wifi.
Ah ha... So it must be after the last update. I re-enabled mine and sure enough it started backing up the photos off the Web to my phone even those the are already on my SD card! I left a 1 star review on the play store... They generally are pretty quick to patch
Hope the patch will come soon...
I sent them a feedback, wait now their answer.