How do I find a temporarily downloaded file to delete it?

invader05

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File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

I have a LG Lucid 2 running jellybean, and I was downloading a file from chrome. The file was on google drive and so it asked me to open which app, drive or chrome. I pressed drive and then on google drive it had asked me with what to open the file with, where only one app was available - File Manager (the pre-installed file manager for my phone).

It then commenced downloading and then did I only realize how large the file was... 594 MB. It was a .zip file. After downloading it showed it was able to open but I did notice that my phone said I was running out of space. When I tried to extract it, it stated that I couldn't. So I closed out of it. I tried to click on the "up folder" button to move up the branches and find where it was stored but it wouldn't keep going.

Ever since then, I can't find the file to delete it and my phone is running out of space so it's really annoying. :/ I tried to find the file using file manager and I even searched for a .zip using both the file manager and also windows explorer when plugging the phone into my laptop.

I'm not sure if it was saved into somehow a different temporary file but after using Clean Master app to find the large files that I could delete, none were even close to the size of the file I downloaded. I'm not sure what to do. I restarted in hopes that a temporary file would be abandoned/deleted but the message is still there and looking at my storage, it shows only a few MBs left.

Please help!
 
Re: File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

I have a LG Lucid 2 running jellybean, and I was downloading a file from chrome. The file was on google drive and so it asked me to open which app, drive or chrome. I pressed drive and then on google drive it had asked me with what to open the file with, where only one app was available - File Manager (the pre-installed file manager for my phone).

It then commenced downloading and then did I only realize how large the file was... 594 MB. It was a .zip file. After downloading it showed it was able to open but I did notice that my phone said I was running out of space. When I tried to extract it, it stated that I couldn't. So I closed out of it. I tried to click on the "up folder" button to move up the branches and find where it was stored but it wouldn't keep going.

Ever since then, I can't find the file to delete it and my phone is running out of space so it's really annoying. :/ I tried to find the file using file manager and I even searched for a .zip using both the file manager and also windows explorer when plugging the phone into my laptop.

I'm not sure if it was saved into somehow a different temporary file but after using Clean Master app to find the large files that I could delete, none were even close to the size of the file I downloaded. I'm not sure what to do. I restarted in hopes that a temporary file would be abandoned/deleted but the message is still there and looking at my storage, it shows only a few MBs left.

Please help!
Try using ES file explorer
 
Re: File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

Where would I go to find the file though?
 
Re: File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

Type .zip in the search function which will bring up all of your zip files.

Doesn't your existing file manager have a search box?
 
Re: File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

Don't have an external sd inserted. Tried to find it everywhere. I can't :/ I saved up space deleting other things. Hopefully I get the space back sometime.
 
Re: File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

Type .zip in the search function which will bring up all of your zip files.

Doesn't your existing file manager have a search box?

It does. I forgot to mention that I did do a search for .zip and also searched for what i remembered was included in the name of the file but I found other files, just not the right one. They were just some tiny files.
 
Re: File temporarily downloaded but can't find it to delete it!

Apologies, I was speed reading and missed the part where you said you had searched that way.

Sounds weird!
 

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