Double folders

[donebrasko]

These are taking up double space. They have the exact same thing in them. Is anyone else having that problem? I'm afraid to delete one because they both might disappear.

 

[Rukbat]

Make certain that they are duplicates. Copy a file (any file) then paste it into, say, dcim. Then look in DCIM to be sure that it's not there also. (If it is, dcim is a link to DCIM [and download is probably a link to Download]. Links don't take much space, so leave them alone, until you learn enough Linux to run a terminal app and delete the links.)

If they're separate folders (the copied file didn't also copy to the other folder), delete the lower-case folders. DCIM and Download are the ones Android wants. (You can probably also get rid of most or all of what's in Downloads. Usually what's in there is only needed temporarily, like an .apk file.)

 

[donebrasko]

It showed up in the other folder. My phone is saying that both of them are taking up spare space from my storage

 

[donebrasko]

Storage analyzer is the app I use

 

[lucianus_luciferus]

Have you tried restarting the phone?

 

[donebrasko]

I have

 

[lucianus_luciferus]

Copy all files from both folders on your pc, delete one of the folders and see what happens.

 

[SDTRMG]

Copy all files from both folders on your pc, delete one of the folders and see what happens.

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[Dellsimkin]

Is your phone a ZTE . Your phone is dual storing it's information one on internal drive and one on your SD external drive remove the external drive SD card only if it's the one with XD and your sim card in it leave the SIM card in put the phone back together power it up and see if it'll run the data that way if it won't do a factory reset run it straight from the SIM card in it will fix the problem not the SIM card with the USB card

 

[Rukbat]

No, Dellsimkin - pasting only pastes to the folder you're pasting to. donebrasco proved that one of the folders is a symlink which one, if he knew enough about, he could determine with a terminal app and the ls command. As lucianus_luciferus said, backing up everything for safety, then deleting the lower-case folders, will probably clear everything up. Some rogue app is creating symlinks.

(There's no SIM card internal to the phone, there's a folder named /sdcard [that's usually mounted on /mnt].)

 

[donebrasko]

Is your phone a ZTE . Your phone is dual storing it's information one on internal drive and one on your SD external drive remove the external drive SD card only if it's the one with XD and your sim card in it leave the SIM card in put the phone back together power it up and see if it'll run the data that way if it won't do a factory reset run it straight from the SIM card in it will fix the problem not the SIM card with the USB card

I'm using the Samsung S9+

 

[scottbeamer]

Is your phone a ZTE . Your phone is dual storing it's information one on internal drive and one on your SD external drive remove the external drive SD card only if it's the one with XD and your sim card in it leave the SIM card in put the phone back together power it up and see if it'll run the data that way if it won't do a factory reset run it straight from the SIM card in it will fix the problem not the SIM card with the USB card

This is a Samsung forum.

 

[donebrasko]

Still taking up double space...i moved the folder and it's still creating double folders

 

[lucianus_luciferus]

Back up your files and do a factory reset

 

[WildCide]

These are taking up double space. They have the exact same thing in them. Is anyone else having that problem? I'm afraid to delete one because they both might disappear.View attachment 284729View attachment 284730

Having the exact same problem on my LG V20 after updating to Oreo.

 

[donebrasko]

Having the exact same problem on my LG V20 after updating to Oreo.

Still having a problem