[TUT] Free Up Memory [Up To 4gb+]

[skimminstones]

was wondering the other day where a lot of my space had gone. Checked this and had 1.6gigs in it???

Dont understand that though as i always connect and disconnect from the computer properly. I never just unplug. What else does that folder contain?

Also checked the android folder and also had a gameloft folder of 1.6gigs. So recovered 3.2gigs of space

 

[Dalfin]

My LOST.dir was empty but it's a good tip. I will keep an eye on that folder. Thanks.

 

[B3311]

3 files, total 96 kB, all from New Year's Eve. No idea how they got there, especially after a severe amnesia attack on that night.....

 

[jonny68]

I clean cache everyday in ZD Box and also use SD Maid to clean on my SD card

 

[veyka]

3 files, total 96 kB, all from New Year's Eve. No idea how they got there, especially after a severe amnesia attack on that night.....

If its new years, then more than likely you won't want to know!

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[theblob27]

This is a great tip thanks for posting it, it will come in very handy.

 

[dave2]

Only 125MB in LOST.DIR but found a gameloft folder that was 1.76GB. Cheers!

 

[Snakeforhire]

My LOST.DIR is empty.
Maybe because I always properly disconnect or shutdown?

Thing is, everything ending up there is actually LOST, and I don't like loosing any of my data stored on the phone.

This is due to the FAT32 (or RFS if it's the internal SD card. It's a bastardized FAT32 cooked up by a stoned samsung engineer it seems) filesystem used, it's very flaky and frequently loses files during a checkdisk (actually it thinks they're corrupted and moves them into this directory).

You can actually recover a lot of the files from there, most times they're just renamed, and you just need to rename them and move them somewhere else (the hard part is locating which file you're looking for in all this junk)...

 

[pcboyy]

Thanks. I save 1Gb!

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[Coedy]

224kb? ???

 

[dudi1986]

It's all about the developers. Some games would would delete the downloaded resources ,some ask you if you wonna delete, and the rest would do nothing. An example is dungeon defenders . It would delete the 890 m resources if delete the game itself

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[Galactus]

Maybe I'm wrong but I'm sure that games like Contract Killer, Shadow Gun, Contract Killer Zombies Etc store their download data in the Android folder, thus if you still play them you shouldn't delete that folder

 

[ballmead]

Freed up 1.9Gb for me, thanks mate.

I will be more careful in future when ejecting my phone from USB.