Guest kyan31 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) Well, I have a really weird issue with my SD card and Internal SD card. It seems that some sort of file is slowly building up on my SD card, causing it to take up all the space. I have done an SD card scan with ES File Explorer and it seems to either be in the LOST directory, or my DCIM folder. To try and solve this, I deleted the LOST directory, and I transfered my photos to a new directory and deleted the DCIM folder, which helps at first, but then it seems to build back up again. I have no idea why this is happening but I would really appreciate some suggestions as its taking up gigabytes of free space. Thanks! P.s As my laptop is gone, I won't be able to back up my files and format, so suggesting formatting etc. wont really be of any help to me at the moment. If you guys have any methods which can all be done on the phone itself, fire away :) Edited June 20, 2013 by kyan31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest george109 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Well, I have a really weird issue with my SD card and Internal SD card. It seems that some sort of file is slowly building up on my SD card, causing it to take up all the space. I have done an SD card scan with ES File Explorer and it seems to either be in the LOST directory, or my DCIM folder. To try and solve this, I deleted the LOST directory, and I transfered my photos to a new directory and deleted the DCIM folder, which helps at first, but then it seems to build back up again. I have no idea why this is happening but I would really appreciate some suggestions as its taking up gigabytes of free space. Thanks! P.s As my laptop is gone, I won't be able to back up my files and format, so suggesting formatting etc. wont really be of any help to me at the moment. If you guys have any methods which can all be done on the phone itself, fire away :) Which ROM are you on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Tesla, which is B960 based. Apparently the LOST.DIR is a storage space for recoverable files you may of deleted previously. However, I don't need to recover anything so I have no idea why its building up on my SD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest george109 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 This might be quite useful for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13726990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plewis1981 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) I no you are far from a noob so I am sorry for asking but have you tried scanning for viruses, as this sounds a lot like a Vitus I had on my laptop, which filled up the temp folder. Edited June 20, 2013 by plewis1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest george109 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) I no you are far from a noob so I am sorry for asking but have you tried scanning for viruses, as this sounds a lot like a Vitus I had on my laptop, which filled up the temp folder. It is quite unlikely, as from what I have read, its lost files from a disk check. You could try typing su fdisk in to the terminal (Download Terminal Emulator from the play store) Edited June 20, 2013 by george109 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest penthaler Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 kyan31 - DCIM - THUMBNAILS... dont know why but on stock or stock based ROMs any app creates hiden file thumbxxxxxx with enormous size -> my build up to 2GB. Will be glad to stop it too, but now only hope is to delete it and again and again, when it appears. not sure, but when used CM9 there wasnt this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 kyan31 - DCIM - THUMBNAILS... dont know why but on stock or stock based ROMs any app creates hiden file thumbxxxxxx with enormous size -> my build up to 2GB. Will be glad to stop it too, but now only hope is to delete it and again and again, when it appears. not sure, but when used CM9 there wasnt this problem. So it only persists on stock based ROMs? Hmm, maybe there is a way of stopping it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I just want to say thanks for all the suggestions guys, I appreciate it. I tried all the methods posted here, I don't have any virus' etc. so that's not the problem. I am now aware of the .thumbnail folder, so deleting that helped. Now I'll just have to see if the problem still persists after taking some photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CoSmEeN Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 (edited) I also know about that file/folder or w/e that .thumbnail thing is. Clean Master app always asks me to delete that. You can try that app or take a look at this guide http://androidforums...rd-gallery.html Edited June 21, 2013 by CoSmEeN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akarana Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Take a look at Settings -> Apps -> Running -> Cached Processes next time before deleting thumbnails to see what's making them, then there might be a chance of a Setting in that App to stop it. It could be your Camera App, or Picture Viewer. Baidu and SinaXinWen keep heaps of thumbnails for fast page loading but not in DCIM, and I s'pose you've chucked them anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Take a look at Settings -> Apps -> Running -> Cached Processes next time before deleting thumbnails to see what's making them, then there might be a chance of a Setting in that App to stop it. It could be your Camera App, or Picture Viewer. Baidu and SinaXinWen keep heaps of thumbnails for fast page loading but not in DCIM, and I s'pose you've chucked them anyway. I suspected it was the camera/gallery as I would get an I/O error as soon as I opened any of them, and the cache would also fill back up again at the same time. I understand its generating thumbnails for quicker loading times etc., but 2.0GB+ is way too much :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akarana Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 2GB of thumbnails implies maybe 20G of photos. You really got all that??? Or more likely you've got a rogue Gallery.app FWIW I'm running the Huawei factory B926 rom and it seems that Gallery does not recreate thumbnails if I delete them, they only get stored when the photo is taken. I do have the .nomedia file in several folders, and I didn't put it there, nor did I install anything I know of that does that. Maybe just the difference between our rom+Gallery versions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest penthaler Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 I got around hundreds of small pictures and gallery/camera or something else after some time creates thumbnails around 2GB, btw. photos have "only" around 150MBs together. And looks like, that it creates for more apps using thumbs... .nomedia file is cool, but if I make it in DCIM folder, wont be able to see them in galery and any program, only in file browsers xD btw. using Stock B952 with some tweaks, but it happend in clear ROM and old GB ROM too... but not in CM9 which I tested xD Thats weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 2GB of thumbnails implies maybe 20G of photos. You really got all that??? Or more likely you've got a rogue Gallery.app FWIW I'm running the Huawei factory B926 rom and it seems that Gallery does not recreate thumbnails if I delete them, they only get stored when the photo is taken. I do have the .nomedia file in several folders, and I didn't put it there, nor did I install anything I know of that does that. Maybe just the difference between our rom+Gallery versions... Well I'm actually using a customised version of QuickPic, and I only have 2GB worth of photos. This implies that it is actually duplicating all my photos rather than creating thumbnail versions of them. I have been using QuickPic for over a year, an its never given me problems before, so I'm sure its the ROM itself (B960). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nickxdd Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 You should use clean master from play store, and delete the thumbnails through that app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 After more use, it seems that the cache only builds up after I've used the camera. JB Camera+ or ICS Camera to be exact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akarana Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Is that the JB and ICS Camera by Moblynx? I just had a quick glance at their low star ratings on play.google.com, didn't see any with your problem but there were complaints of it not working on 64G cards. I'm installing it now, I'll have a play and see what happens ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akarana Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) Hmmmm ... I've just installed Camera ICS on B926 and took a few snaps. /sdcard/DCIM/camera had 17 photos, ~17MB, now has 23 photos and 1 video, total 28MB /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails contains a file thumbnails3data-<numbers> 439MB, BUT it is dated from last week when I installed to play with Camera FV-5. Some deeper diggin' needed here ... Edit: I've deleted the Big thumbnails-data file, faffed about with all three cameras, looked at the photos with Gallery, ES Image viewer and Boat browser, and that big data file has not re-appeared, yet, ... Maybe it's triggered by something else, maybe needs idle time, a cron job does it, ?? Edited June 24, 2013 by akarana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akarana Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 OK, a bit further down the road, but still not clear. Camera ICS creates a folder at /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails Something else must create that folder too, because I had one before installing Camera ICS. Doing several tests involved clearing appdata and cache, stopping, uninstalling, reboot, install other app, reboot. If the .thumbnails folder is deleted Camera ICS will re-create it, and the cache file. Huawei factory camera will not. Camera FV-5 will not. If the folder exists and is empty, both Huawei factory camera and Camera FV-5 will create inside it the cache file thumbsdata3-nnnnn in my case this seems to be around 500MB. I have a 32G sdcard and quite a few movie files and clips, a coupla dozen pdf files in a documents folder, and about 50 jpeg files in a maps folder. I copied the thumbsdata3 file to my PC, and it seems to be mostly empty. Running the strings comand gives: JFIF $.' ",# (7),01444 '9=82<.342 !22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 $3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz &'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz #d` What now? I've fired off a Bug Report to moblynx, but they may decide it's Huawei's fault. Workaround, delete the .thumbnails folder and don't use cameras that use it. And I'm glad I've got a Real Camera to take real pictures :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 Wow, thanks for all the investigating Akarana, I appreciate it. I'll test out as many camera's possible and see which ones are 'thumbnail friendly'. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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