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Quasi-deleted music

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airdonut41

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I'm a bit of an Android n00b, and I'm running into some issues with my internal storage. When I got my Infuse, I added ~10Gb of music onto the internal storage (via my PC, treating the phone as a mass storage device). I recently upgraded to Spotify premium, and so I decided to delete all of it to make room for syncing of Spotify playlists offline. I thought I deleted them; I trashed them using my PC and then checked by looking at my Google Music app, and all of the songs were gone. However, when I tried making my Spotify playlists available offline, I ran out of space almost immediately. I checked my Internal SD card, and it turns out I have about 12 of 13Gb used. I checked all of my folders, and none of them is larger than ~500Mb, and there aren't many of them. I couldn't figure out where all of my storage space was being used, until I checked "local tracks" on the Spotify app. All of my old music was there, and I could play it without an internet connection. My question is, how do I find it/get rid of it? I've looked through all of my folders when connected via Mass Storage mode, and have had no luck. Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Some file managers keep Trash Can / Recycle Bins in hidden dirs. You don't mention the PC's OS, but linux's Thunar file manager is [in]famous for doing this. Having recycle-able files like this stashed on the card causes these same kinds of symptoms.

Try to show hidden files/dirs in your OS's file mangler and see if anything jumps out at you.

Also might remove card, mount it in a reader and fsck/chkdisk it depending on OS.

If linux, you can find out what takes space with something like:
Code: 
du -a [I]/path/to/sdcard[/I] | sort -rn | top -20
off the top of my head
 
Another n00b question; can I even remove the internal SD to put in a reader? I'm on OSX 10.7; do you know if there's any way to find hidden directories using OSX?
 
To the OP; I don't know how to find the files in OSX. OSX is Darwin/BSD under the hood so it should be similar concept, thought the program names will likely be differnet.

schlacter101 said:
And why do you have an Android phone with a Mac, you're an Apple person, right? :confused:
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Really? Plenty of folks have Mac and android, or PCs and iPhones. I have linux PCs and an iPod. I did slam rockbox on it, but it's still Apple hardware.
 
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