[Q]Strange folder : .eCtcQjbu1dgnvtFnvnr6yepTp1M=

pavl0v_xda · Jan 25, 2014

Hello, I would like to ask if somboby know for what is : .eCtcQjbu1dgnvtFnvnr6yepTp1M= folder in internnal memory and SD Card?

Also, I have problem with some images....you can see the attached file....the files are brocken and not usable.(all those images are only on SD card)? What si this problem with SD Card?

I'm not sure if we have connections between the 2 questions.

Thank you in advance.

gripfly · Jan 25, 2014

pavl0v_xda said:
Hello, I would like to ask if somboby know for what is : .eCtcQjbu1dgnvtFnvnr6yepTp1M= folder in internnal memory and SD Card?

Also, I have problem with some images....you can see the attached file....the files are brocken and not usable.(all those images are only on SD card)? What si this problem with SD Card?

I'm not sure if we have connections between the 2 questions.

Thank you in advance.

Is the folder empty or is something in the folder?

pavl0v_xda · Jan 26, 2014

gripfly said:
Is the folder empty or is something in the folder?

These is file ".nomedia".

gripfly · Jan 26, 2014

Aha ok. I think an app created the folder with the .nomedia file. The .nomedia file hides for example pictures in gallery app.

Jimgone · May 2, 2014

what application that creates it?

RedSkyRoad · Jun 8, 2014

I have it as well. Which app is it?

androidfreak70 · Jun 8, 2014

I have it too! Dont know from where its come

kraseto · Jun 10, 2014

I have similar folder and i found that "Office suite" create it.

SoulFury · Jul 19, 2014

I have it too in my SD! :S:S:S

imgoingtowin · Sep 11, 2014

SoulFury said:
I have it too in my SD! :S:S:S

I think it might be swype keyboard that creates it. Or maybe Nandroid Online Backup.

Jamiel 1997 · Sep 26, 2014

office suite

no it's definitely office Suite

androidfreak70 · Sep 26, 2014

Every android update we are getting an extra folder lol

TapaTalked from my Xperia™ Z (C660²) running Dirty Unicorns ROM!

Cookie Ninja · Sep 27, 2014

The .nomedia file that is usually created to hide media (audio/video) is a zero byte file. This OTOH, is an 80 byte file with some gibberish that appears to be encoded in various languages. Definitely a marker file from some malicious programme. Could be even towelroot!

Here's the text from the .nomedia file copied from es file explorer text editor:
ĄЏ우굏庙낉࿊袞၆

adult.basic.educator · Oct 18, 2014

Yes, But, Why, And Why Now...

Just got this folder with cryptic extension .eCtcQjbu1dgnvtFnvnr6yepTp1M= an hour ago, with its 1 KB .nomedia file (*), when I resumed my tablet on the PC USB (99% held ok for 9 hours),

BUT—Windows (7) also complained that the external sdcard (the location of said) needed to be scanned...which...was also all okay (after a lengthy scan time on 16 GB)...

I have the uptodate OfficeSuite 7 (com.mobisystems.office version 7.5.2129; USB storage in use by the PC), as well as the oem OfficeSuite (ver 1.5.290; enabled but never used)...

(N.B. Sometimes when I turn On the USB storage the estrongs file manager app will complain.)

Ray.

* .nomedia says 4ÇX‚LÍOýÞÏÑ†XËøôÍðn@†;··!O.bÿ)=îŽ}ål§Cÿ“Ì6¥ÛÎuÈ‹AüÎÊ{bÜgã’=TÄ ÎQA&b0ôE

hexxellor · Nov 18, 2014

Cookie Ninja said:
The .nomedia file that is usually created to hide media (audio/video) is a zero byte file. This OTOH, is an 80 byte file with some gibberish that appears to be encoded in various languages. Definitely a marker file from some malicious programme. Could be even towelroot!

Here's the text from the .nomedia file copied from es file explorer text editor:
ĄЏ우굏庙낉࿊袞၆

Did you ever figure this out for sure? I am curious what made you think it might be towelroot? I used that APK but it is not on my system anymore and I just had another strange directory appear with naming similar to the ones in this thread.

I do not have the office application or others mentioned in this thread so that rules those out.

I can tell you that the directory name is clearly Base64 encoded. It decodes to more characters but I don't know their meaning yet (looks like gibberish/random).

In the last month the directory has appeared twice on my internal storage and SD card in the root. Both times I deleted it along with the .nomedia file that was 80 bytes.

One other detail... I noticed most threads about this topic are related to Xperia phones but I happen to have a Samsung Galaxy S4.

Cookie Ninja · Nov 19, 2014

Yup. I transfer files between my devices, and I had this folder on both of my nexus (Nexi?) N7 and N10! This Folder on. Dell 7 disappeared: after reflash using mykit_batch. Surprisingly, after formatting and reinstalling from flashtool, both XZ are clean now.... go figure!

Edit...
This is the nomedia text from my N10
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Dead Cookies leave no trails...

hexxellor · Dec 10, 2014

Finally. I solved what caused these strange directories and files for me.

In my case it wasn't the transfer of files. It was a an app. Others had mentioned OfficeSuite caused it and I found out they were right, but I didn't have OfficeSuite which confused me.

I found out I had the Oxford English Dictionary which was from the same company as OfficeSuite.

Every time I started the app it would re-create the folder and .nomedia files.

My phone is rooted so I did a little more looking in to it and there is a file in the application's directory under /data/data/<appname>

So in my case it was:
/data/data/com.mobisystems.msdict.embedded.wireless.oxford.dictionaryofenglish.full/

Under that folder there is another folder called "files" which contains a strange file called ".mssnDatabase2". If you notice the file is 80 bytes in size. It happens to contain the exact same data as the .nomedia files that are created.

So that's how I figured out what was creating the strange folders for me. I hope that helps others.

BTW, the application (the dictionary) in my case appears to send the company quite a bit of info they don't need so I uninstalled it. You might want to check yours too.

4Freedom · Mar 22, 2015

I have this .eCtcQjbu1dgnvtFnvnr6yepTp1M= folder too with inside a .nomedia file
I dont know which app created it but i think it is office suite because i installed it and few others apk. However if i delete it after some time it come back.

Just to say

zeemenshater · Apr 6, 2015

An OfficeSuite folder. A genius way to name it, whatever the dev was smoking.

DehoXeD · Apr 25, 2015

zeemenshater said:
An OfficeSuite folder. A genius way to name it, whatever the dev was smoking.

You just made my day^^

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