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Deleting files on SD card does not free up space on SD card

patrickdrd

patrickdrd

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I'm facing this issue:
when I delete a big folder, it's not deleted, but moved in "system data" instead, I remove the card, I plug it in my pc and my pc says that the device has to be checked for errors, it runs the check and then creates a folder named found.000, if I delete this, the free space is regained! I've already formatted my sd card, same issue happened!

the strange thing is that this happens only with large/huge files and folders, if I delete some megabytes, not a byte is added in system data! so I think I need to think why could this be happening with large data
 
patrickdrd said:
I'm facing this issue:
when I delete a big folder, it's not deleted, but moved in "system data" instead, I remove the card, I plug it in my pc and my pc says that the device has to be checked for errors, it runs the check and then creates a folder named found.000, if I delete this, the free space is regained! I've already formatted my sd card, same issue happened!

the strange thing is that this happens only with large/huge files and folders, if I delete some megabytes, not a byte is added in system data! so I think I need to think why could this be happening with large data
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Assuming that your SD card is 10 rated and not older then 10 years old. It could be you need a good file extractor in removing hidden files off your SD card or if it's beyond 10 years old it may be time for a new SD card because they do malfunction over time due to downloading and removing files back and forth to and from it.
 
no, it's brand new, both the card and the phone,

I've got a similar 1gb of data in internal too but this should be the mi cloud backup?
is it stored locally?
how can I delete it?
(I'm root)
 
I noticed the same thing happens when I delete a large file from the internal storage,
is this a nougat feature or a miui one?
any way I can force android to delete these files instantly instead of moving them to system data
and maybe deleting after reboot?
 
I think it does, but I didn't enable it,
but what does adoptable storage have to do with it?
The problem that I had was that deleting large files weren't reflected by free storage space, I formatted to exfat and files are gone at once, I now want to delete some reserved storage in internal, which is seen as system data by diskusage
 
Adoptable Storage turns you MicroSD card into internal storage. If you take the card out and reformat it on your PC you have to make it Adoptable Storage on your phone again.
 
patrickdrd said:
no, it's brand new, both the card and the phone,

I've got a similar 1gb of data in internal too but this should be the mi cloud backup?
is it stored locally?
how can I delete it?
(I'm root)
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A rooted device maybe the biggest part of your issue.
 
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