Root My "Media" Storage if Full - How do I free some??

Hiya Ocnbrze...how ya been!??

ocnbrze said:

well pictures, music and videos are stored there.

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Well, I was pretty certain that all that stuff was stored on my SD card. The only pictures I have that appear to affect this "Media" storage amount are my screenshots...and I only have about 166 pictures there at about 300k each..however, I've used up 2+GB of that "Media" space.

Are my Titanium Backup files using this "media" storage?? How about my TWRP nandroid backup files?? I think I can get rid of some of those.

What /paths/ can I look through to throw out some stuff??

Thanks!!

Scott

Helloooooooo Strangers and Friends!!

Happy 2014...Happy March....Happy, perhaps, last snow of the season??

Well had the issue in this thread come up again and didn't recall if was particularly solved. I switched phones a while back moving my EVO LTE from my "main" personal phone to my "business" phone and, with that, not using it as much filling it up with "fun" stuff that this issue was moot for me for a bit. Well, recently had problems again with the "media" section of Titanium showing me after its launch that I had ZERO room in that section.

I scanned and scanned and couldn't find what was filling up all the space. I knew that my screenshots were being stored in this "media" area but only accounted for, AT MOST, a few MB of space. I then used the app Clean Master to do a scan and found 1.6 GB of "Gallery Thumbnails." Hmmm...that's sure a suspect amount of data...

Before cleaning with that app (there was a warning issued within the app to MAKE SURE I wanted to remove what I was about to remove) I checked around a bit more to make certain. Well, long story short, those thumbnail files WERE the source of my "media" data issue showing ZERO free space. Although used by the Gallery and useful to the Gallery, there was just too much there. The reason I had difficulty finding this much data in my "media" section that I could possibly erase was because the folder holding the files is HIDDEN and I only saw it when I used ES File Explorer!! finding the following path:

.../sdcard0 (internal)/DCIM/.thumbnails

I think that was the hidden file...either .thumbnails or .thumb...something similar (it's gone now because it is empty).

So, erased 1.6GB of thumbs and now I'm good to go. Still 300+ MB of data tucked into that "media" data section...wherever it is...but I'm good with that for now

Scott

Granite1 said:

Yeah, I've had to delete that file before. There is a way to stop the phone from storing those, but I can't seem to recall where I read it.

Just keep an eye on it, and delete it every so often.

Just as a side note, if you update to the latest "official / Unofficial update to 4.3 and Sense5, your data partition will increase in size.

Check out this thread and read the OP from the good Cap'n over at XDA. Might want to go for it. http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte...-sense-5-android-4-3-update-4-13-651-1-a.html

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Thanks for the suggestion...however, required "S-Off" and I'm ON...I went the "easy" way when I rooted for various reason...mostly I have a Mac, life/time constraints, etc. Just wanted to be rooted, backup with a nand and be good. That's where I'm at

Thanks!!

Scott