Help with SD bug of 4.2 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

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I'm a little confused here with this one. I have all the contents of my sd card at 3 places. As you can see I have SDcard0 and emulated and inside emulated I have 2 folders 0 and legacy all 3 folders contain the same 55 items which are the contents of my SD. Which ones I have to delete? I have the same free storage as before so the files aren't duplicated.
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They're symlinked, don't delete any of them.
Google has made a little bit of backward compatibility is all, it has the files where Google wants them, and then has places they've previously been linked to that so that old programs don't break and the files still go where they belong.

This stuff is just symlinked behind the scenes. Just use /sdcard as allways, which will show all the files as well.
And no it has nothing to do with support for legacy apps(as mentioned these allways just refer to /sdcard). This has to due with the addition of multiple users on Android tablets, and hench the filesystem will need to make place for several storages with one for each account.(with you being the only user, number 0 in this case)
And no do not touch any of them..

Well... the symlinking was in there long before 4.2, it's on every data media device since Honeycomb. It does serve the function of legacy app control, or more accurately, it serves the function of making data media devices compatible with SDcard devices. It seems Google is putting it to further use by having multi-user symlink /sdcard to the /data section that belongs to the current user.
http://teamw.in/DataMedia
EDIT: sorry this was kind of off topic. The short answer being that it's like that for a variety of reasons and it's ok for it to do that.

Thanks for the replies. so if i change something to any of these folders the other 2 will change as well?

arvylas said:
Thanks for the replies. so if i change something to any of these folders the other 2 will change as well?
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yes. any changes you make in one will reflect in all

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[Q] [MIUI] i just installed it BUT What is wrong with my App2SD+??

here is my problem in picture
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So, as you see here the applications i`m RESTORING using Titanium Back up aren`t being installed on the App2SD ext but rather they are all going to the Internal Memory then i moved them (one by one) to the SD but the internal memory is still the same and the SD partition decreases but the ext partition stays as empty as ever,,,, So can anyone help me?
Note: i WIPED everything before installing MIUI!! ("Wipe data/factory reset")
There is none :] I emulate it with a Folder i've put into the dock.
Miui places ALL applications on multiple pages on the device. There is no actual app drawer unless you place all apps into a folder and move it to the dock. Are you positive titanium backup was sucessfully installed? Try doing a reboot on the device.
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LOLWUT!! NO APPDRAWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGGGGGG (<<This is the first time IN MY LIFE i make this face in real life) THIS is VERY iPhonish xP
but actually it still BEATs iPhone hands down ,,,, Because we HAVE waaaay more capabilities LIKe (WIDGETS <3) - <<we have that right?! -
well, i guess i keep it for a week and just make sure NO ONE sees my "Android T_T"
oh and thanks for having the courage to deliver such news!! (God bless Android ... he was such an AWESOME OS and a lovely .... OS)
its not a bad thing actually
i had the same shock but then i just made a folder called apps and put all my apps in it and then attached it to my dock
now it looks like this
Any Dev who can help
Anyone HELP me guys i flashed a new ROM to get a free space and a fast phone!!!
Problem is still here!!
I think your question may be a bit specific for the 'Desire General' section.
I think MIUI specific questions are best off in the relevant 'Desire Android Development' threads.
Just a thought.
PS
I think there are several flavours for the App2/wherever of MIUI -you'll have to follow the threads to get the full picture.
Same thing
Did you select the option, ''Force move to same location'' or something in Titanium preferences?
I too had the same problem when i was trying out a MIUI based rom. I thought it was a problem with the A2SD or something. So i reinstalled the rom, manually installed all my apps using appbrain and it was ok. The apps mostly went to A2SD partition like its supposed to.
I think its something to do with Titanium itself.
I read on miui page to use in a terminal emulator:
su
a2sd cachesd
I solved by this way..
have a look there

[Q]ROM Manager default location?

Is there a way to get ROM MANGER to default to the Internal "SD" card for backups? It always goes to my external card.
I know I can manually launch clockworkmod and select "internal SD" but I would rather do it from within the O/S so I can name the files.
you can always rename the files however you like with any file editor to rename them
and you can move the zip files around to either Internal SD or External SD
personally i like them on the External SD better to safe space on my Internal SD
I do that but like the convenience of doing it from the O/S. I thought I preferred the external as well until yesterday. The reason I want to do that is because when I tried doing a restore from the external it kept crashing. Seems my 32GIG card is flaky (as these cards can be) and I couldn't restore. I know it's the card because it restored fine from the internal SD. The internal ram, not being a "card" is much more reliable and now I am too skittish to use the external MicroSd for backups.
PM Koush or sent him an email for a feature request on his CWR
to let user pick where the backup are kept
I think I'm missing something!?
It looks like it's included already?
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Well I'll be a son of a b .......... I tried MENU everywhere except from the main screen! Dohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Thanks for making me look foolish, I deserved it! But I don't feel that bad since Allgamer didn't recall either,
not exactly, i was thinking more in the area of Letting you select a Folder you like.
i do know of the internal vs. external option
that's why i said i like it to be on the external by default a few messages above
ideally we should be able to pick a folder to keep all that stuff, i'll like to point it to a folder called "ROMs" for example in the root of /sdcard/
instead of the default
(titanium backup just recently added that feature, well more like they improved it)

[Q] Internal storage full almost full...

Hey guys
I've searched around a lot for this but haven't found anything that helps me...Basically recently my phone has been telling me that there is around ~520mb free left on internal storage.
Here's some pics from "Storage" and from the StorageAnnilyser app.
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Everything I have (pictures, etc) is stored on my external SD, so I really don't know what is clogging up my internalSD at this point...
Also, I have made two CWM backups, which are not showing up in either internalSD/Clockworkmod, or on my externalSD/Clockworkmod as I have it set to.
Any ideas where they can be found?
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks guys,
Elliott
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Did you check under TWRP. That would be the place your backup would go to with the newer TWRP recovery.
I'm using CWM.
Use a root explorer and browse to /data/Lost+found if it's packed, delete everything
Empty but thanks...any other ideas?
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Could try Diskusage from play store. It gives a little bit more info of what files are taking up space. Can be set to scan Internal/SD and if you have root, even the main directory. (personally never used the root scan) It reminds me of a pc app called Windirstat. It will even allow you to delete files straight from the app.
I actually just ran into this same problem myself last week. In your storage analyser app (the same one i use btw) change the path its looking at to the /data partition (the pie chart button). If it is as i suspect your lost+found folder is probably brimming with junk file fragments. This folder is protected even beyond normal root elevations and doesn't show the files contained within. I was able to use File Manager! from the play store, change the permissions on the folder and delete some of the junk but there were still some that it couldn't delete for some reason. I deleted the contents of the folder using the file manager in TWRP which supersedes the permissions on the folder, in CWM you can probably do the same with the AROMA file manager http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952862. Its probably worth mentioning im using an AOSP based ROM and the permissions may be different in TW.
Thanks guys.
Disk usage worked great for me in ways that storage analyser never did.
I found my CWM backups in the root directory of my phone (not even in internal storage). I moved/deleted a bunch of them and problem solved...
Don't know why the backups are saved there but whatever...going to be saving to external storage from now on (where I thought they were being saved originally)
Elliott
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LG G8s Demo retail how to get more storage space

i recently purchased a lg g8 demo of supposedly 128gb, but i can only use 4gb.
I don't want to switch to another room, as I have read that the wifi doesn't work. So I'm just looking for more storage.
With a file explorer I noticed that some repeated folders occupy much of the memory and I would like to know if they can be removed with some adb command.
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HI what is the path of those files I am interested in knowing Have you managed to root your brother lg g8?
Don't think there's an adb command to remove them. But why not just delete the folders from the highest level with a file manager? Just click the beginning directory and select delete?
They look strange to me, odd name, all created with the same date, and taking up tremendous amounts of space. If u didn't create them, delete them. My opinion anyway.
cheers
Theres actually just not a 128gb storage chip on those demos...safe to say its a 32
gb chip
How have you able to obtain 32 gb of space?
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Theres actually just not a 128gb storage chip on those demos...safe to say its a 32View attachment 5446785gb chip
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how did you free up more space ??????????????? If it is not too much trouble, could you explain plis .something that nobody does on the entire internet?
I was also able to unlock, root, and get the wifi working and it really only has 32gb of space.
I'm from Brazil and I use google translator, if you have the patience I can help you.
Please let us know how you have done it.
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Sergio Melo said:
I'm from Brazil and I use google translator, if you have the patience I can help you.
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<mesg deleted> Looking forward to Sergio's post of the whole procedure. Any language is fine as we could use google translate to understand. Thanks.

New to OS, serious file management issue

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