Hi there, yesterday I noticed that about 500mb of files disappeared from my downloads folder. I am not exactly sure what caused this to happen but i suspect it to be a system update a day prior (Only other things that changed recently was that I installed and uninstalled malwarebytes). All files except for around 10 had disappeared (dont think it has anything to do with their file format as other files of the same format disappeared as well). However files within subfolders inside the downloads folder were fine. My android shows that the space is free (51.7 gb used of 53.9) and i cant find the files with diskdigger when i tried, even though it had found files i had deleted from a year ago. However when I plugin my phone to my PC, my pc shows that 52.2gb of 53.9gb of space is being used (although i still cant see/find the files on pc except for a 126b M3U file). Im wondering if theres anyway to get the data back and what is causing the issue.
Thanks
(Im sorry if this question doesnt belong here, new to xda. Please direct me to the right subforum if I posted this in the wrong section)
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I have noticed some temporary files (some really big - 1.65M) with names like "MsgQueueData..." created in the Windows directory under "My Device". I cannot delete these files as it says there is a share violation and these files are chewing up my available space. I tried restarting my pocket PC and yet I cannot delete them. Can someone please help
i havent heard about anybody being able to delete them
i asumed that they were pages files for different services
like phone and sms and...
I received my new gTablet Tuesday and had lots of fun with it for a few days, adding apps, getting frustrated because some places sent them to my phone and not letting me download to the gTab, loading media files, etc. Life was good. Then I added an external 32GB mSD and, just as many other people found out, files started disappearing. For me, though, they didn't just disappear from the media players but from the file system. Not only that but the folders began to disappear, too, and now I'm missing several folders from my file system: Video, Pictures, Music, Downloads, and many more that don't come to mind, plus all of their contents.
I was hoping that a reflash (using Roebeet's excellent sticky thread) would help but everything is still missing. Is there a way to recover or reflash the contents of the /sdcard? Even reloading the stock image would be acceptable as I would at least have a base to work from.
And, since my readings hint that this is all a result of the .nomedia issue, just where should that particular file be stored so that the media scanner doesn't delete thing or is my problem greater than that? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I am not sure, but I wonder if anundelete utility on your pc might recover files on the sd card?
As for the no media file, I have mine on the root directory as well as the media directories. This is bad though, because Very few programs will find files on the sd card. You have to use a file manager program.
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Hi all,
I have been having a weird problem with my HTC flyer (unrooted, original GB rom) where from time to time it will create .nomedia file on the main directory of my sd card (ext_sd) so the files that i put in there do not get shown in picture gallery or media players. Usually i manually delete the file and do unmount - remount, which sometimes do the trick before the .nomedia re-appear.
On top of that, i just noticed as well, the files inside the directory in ext_sd start to go missing! The folders are still in tact, but my files inside the folders are missing..
Anyone can advise me how to troubleshoot this? Thanks!
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that's weird...my guess would be a dodgy app you've installed...i would do a factory reset and not install anything other than 'official' apps from known sources, like google apps or official dropbox, for 2 or 3 days to see if it keeps happening
you could also try to format your sd card
Bump! Similar Problem; playlist files disappear after media scanner completes
vToq said:
Hi all,
I have been having a weird problem with my HTC flyer (unrooted, original GB rom) where from time to time it will create .nomedia file on the main directory of my sd card (ext_sd) so the files that i put in there do not get shown in picture gallery or media players. Usually i manually delete the file and do unmount - remount, which sometimes do the trick before the .nomedia re-appear.
On top of that, i just noticed as well, the files inside the directory in ext_sd start to go missing! The folders are still in tact, but my files inside the folders are missing..
Anyone can advise me how to troubleshoot this? Thanks!
Sent from my HTC Flyer P510e using Tapatalk
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I've had similar problems; I'm trying to transfer playlist files to an ext_sd. I can see the files transferred to a ext_sd directory. But as the "Media scanner running" completes I literally see the files disappear!
I've reformatted the SD card several times. This has only started to happen in the past few month but I can't see any new apps that I've installed. If anything I've uninstalled apps.
Sorry but this is on a Galaxy S Wifi media player (yes I know this is the Flyer, etc thread but it's the same problem so I'm trying to avoid splitting any information that might be found...)
Any help gratefully accepted.
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hi,
i know i have different device, which is samsung galaxy note 10.1
but the funny thing is, i have the same issue as well.
although i run it on official 4.1.2 unrooted.
i think, the problem is one of our apk installed. but didnt find it yet. tried to uninstalling one by one, but still no clue.
if someone had solved this problem, i'd really appreciate to hear that
At first, sorry if that's the wrong thread, i'm not really used to forums.
Now lets get to my problem.
I made a backup of my audio files to my computer a few weeks ago.
Since the backup i downloaded some files via youtube downloader etc.
Yesterday i saw that some of my music is missing on my phone i backed up on my computer.
So i got on my computer opening the folder with all the backuped audio files/folders, marked them all and just copied them to my audio/music folder on my phone.
I did not get the message "do you want to keep/skip/override already exusting files"
my plan was to skip all files already existing, but it seems it just copied ALL files and now i have some twice or three times, but not all.
and now the Problem: all files i downloaded after the backup a few weeks ago (and moved to the same folder where my music is) went into 0 byte files and i cannot use them anymore.
any idea why and how to solve this/get my files back???
my phone: Huawei P8 Lite (pra-lx1) Stockrom firmware B170 rooted with the guide here on xda and Magisk and systemless xposed
Hi Guys
First of all excuse me for posting here as I am far from a developer but you are the only ones who can help me with this.
Yesterday I was trying to download a file from Facebook, and it would download but then i could not find it anywhere, even plugged my phone to the computer and did a search and nothing. So I kept trying to download it.
Thing is today I used this password storing app and went to open my file where i have stored all my passwords (nothing to do with what happened yesterday).
And in most recent downloads i saw the 10 duplicates of the files i had downloaded yesterday, and this app gives me the path for example
content://com.android.providers.downloads.documents/document/5412
how can i delete them having the path for each one?
thank you so much
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