Why is my internal storage full when all of my pictures and music are on my SD card?

[Android Central Question]

Hello,

I'll start by saying that I have a very large amount of pictures and music on my phone. However, all of it is stored on my sd card (128GB). Almost 90GB are used. I have a Samsung Galaxy S9+ with 64GB of internal storage. I have what I consider an average number of apps. The problem is my internal storage is almost completely full (we are talking a few hundred mbs at best). I have moved and apps that can be moved to the sd card, all my pictures and music are on the ad card, and I have cleared all cache data on each app individually. When my internal storage is analyzed, it says that 63.5gb of other exists. What can I do to increase my internal storage? Could the gallery app be holding 30gb of photos even though they are all stored on my sd card? Help!

 

[mustang7757]

Try a app from play store to see whats taken storage up

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage



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[L0n3N1nja]

Do you have any media downloaded from streaming apps? Music from Google Play or videos saved from Netflix for offline viewing?

From personal experience some of those apps will hide the files within other instead of properly showing how much storage they use.

 

[ManiacJoe]

Check your messaging apps to see where they are storing downloaded media. Some are noted to do strange things....

 

[B. Diddy]

Check your messaging apps to see where they are storing downloaded media. Some are noted to do strange things....

Agreed. Telegram and kik are common culprits. Go to Settings>Apps and look at the app data/cache for any messaging apps.