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Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card?

From Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card?
Date 2016-08-30 18:16 +0100
Organization Association of Revolting Peasants
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On 30/08/2016 17:04, Danny D. wrote:
> I have a files directory on my SD card where I put everything but something
> is polluting the top level of my sd card with junk.
>
> I just deleted about twenty folders and what first came back were these.
>
> 1. .android_secure (an empty folder)
> 2. Android (contains a folder named data)
> 4. Android/data (contains three folders)
> a. com.google.android.music/files/._playmusicid
> b.
> com.mapfactor.navigator/files/navigator/log/notifications_(number_date).log.txt
> c. com.samsung.music/cache/
> 3. LOST.DIR
>
> The odd thing is that I never even ran those apps nor do I use the external
> SD card for anything other than storing some files. So WHO or WHAT is
> creating all that trash on my SD card?
>
> Why can't it put all that trash on the internal memory?

What version of Android are you using? If 6, is the SD card configured 
as an extension of internal storage rather than as a removable device? 
If so, the system will have put those folders there. If you delete them, 
at worst the whole thing will stop working and at best, they'll simply 
re-appear.

They're probably using next to no space, and are just place-holders.
-- 
Cheers,
Roger
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Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-30 18:04 +0200
  Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 18:16 +0100
    Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-31 03:30 +0000
      Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 11:08 +0100
        Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-01 03:47 +0000
          Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? John B. <slocombjbEDIT@gmail.xyz> - 2016-09-01 14:10 +0700
            Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-01 18:45 +0000
              Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? John B. <slocombjbEDIT@gmail.xyz> - 2016-09-02 12:32 +0700
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-09-02 09:41 +0200
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? John B. <slocombjbEDIT@gmail.xyz> - 2016-09-02 16:13 +0700
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 07:27 +0000
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? John B. <slocombjbEDIT@gmail.xyz> - 2016-09-03 15:40 +0700
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 09:42 +0000
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? John B. <slocombjbEDIT@gmail.xyz> - 2016-09-04 11:40 +0700
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-09-04 14:05 +0200
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-17 01:57 -0500
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-09-03 10:42 +0200
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 09:42 +0000
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 07:27 +0000
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Hergen Lehmann <hlehmann.expires.5-11@snafu.de> - 2016-09-03 10:38 +0200
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 09:42 +0000
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Hergen Lehmann <hlehmann.expires.5-11@snafu.de> - 2016-09-03 13:39 +0200
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 07:27 +0000
              Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-09-02 07:34 +0100
                Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? "Danny D." <dannydiamico@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-03 07:26 +0000
          Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Hergen Lehmann <hlehmann.expires.5-11@snafu.de> - 2016-09-01 22:04 +0200
  Re: Who or what is polluting my external SD card? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-04 19:18 +0200

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