Need help deleting TWRP folder

PCPCaddyman

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Good morning. My issue sounds simple enough but it is driving me insane!! I am trying to delete my TWRP backup folder. Tried es file explorer.....root explorer. .....hooked phone up to my laptop and tried deleting that way but nothing works. I can remove any other folder/file but this one. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

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ifly4vamerica

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Try navigating to the folder through system/storage/ then either extsdcard or sdcard0 the to the twrp folder and delete it. Sometimes it works that way when not working directly.

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tgrrb5

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For some reason they're protected but you can delete them by connecting to a computer and navigate to the folder.

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PCPCaddyman

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Tried all the above and nothing. .....not a major issue but the 2 backups I want to delete are gonna eventually cause me space issues.

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micmars

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Tried all the above and nothing. .....not a major issue but the 2 backups I want to delete are gonna eventually cause me space issues.

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I'm able to do it both within root explorer and TWRP. Try booting into recovery, hit restore, and the option to delete a backup should be there. The backups on this phone are huge, which is such a bummer.

The permissions for each backup folder appear to be identical, rwx, rwx-rw. Files within each backup folder have permissions of rw, rw, r.

The thing that drives me nuts are the timestamps on the backups showing 1970. I haven't messed with naming schema. Could be easy enough to fix, but I haven't looked into it. Perhaps a protect backup option exists within session, which would explain things. Maybe the answer is on the TWRP site.

Let us know if you get this figured out.

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PCPCaddyman

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I'll keep you posted. I sent an email to teamwin website Saturday. I imagine it'll be a day or two for I hear back from them

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PCPCaddyman

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I wound up giving root explorer a try and it did the trick. Very strange that that was the only way I could get to delete it tho but I got it!!!

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