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SAMSUNG S4 - critical low on space but cannot move files

  • 02-12-2013 11:57PM
    #1
    Hmm_Messiah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,964 ✭✭✭


    My phone is constantly telling me I am low on space - at this moment only 77 mb free

    but when i look at the folders through "my computer" it says 9 gb used but i cannot locate where the largest amount of data is ? I have looked at properties of all folders and cannot find any mass of data.. nothing over 100 mg other than the "obb" subfolder in "AZndroid"

    I see 1 gb in an "Android" folder - can I move this to the external sd card ?

    I moved all the photos to the external sd card but if I look at setting on the phones menu it says 2 gb in "gallery"

    help please !!

    EDIT: found 4 gb in "Downloads" - podcasts etc - but had previously moved all of them to the sd card ? very very strange


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  • #2
    akaSol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭akaSol


    Hmm_Messiah wrote: »
    My phone is constantly telling me I am low on space - at this moment only 77 mb free

    but when i look at the folders through "my computer" it says 9 gb used but i cannot locate where the largest amount of data is ? I have looked at properties of all folders and cannot find any mass of data.. nothing over 100 mg other than the "obb" subfolder in "AZndroid"

    I see 1 gb in an "Android" folder - can I move this to the external sd card ?

    I moved all the photos to the external sd card but if I look at setting on the phones menu it says 2 gb in "gallery"

    help please !!

    EDIT: found 4 gb in "Downloads" - podcasts etc - but had previously moved all of them to the sd card ? very very strange

    Android is sadly dence when I comes to space. Try moving your "apps to SD". There where a couple of apps to this for 2.x not sure about 4.x. Also look at your apps cash, Google music for example keeps recent files localy which can easily suck up 2gb. Any app that shows images, Tumblr etc are also big culprits .

    >Sol


  • #3
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Make sure you only move stuff that does not have background processes to the SD Card.

    Otherwise you may have performance problems.


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