Miscellaneous files on Samsung Galaxy

[Android Central Question]

OK so this has been asked before but not adequately answered so I'm going to try again and be as detailed as I can. I have a Samsung Galaxy J3. My miscellaneous files folder has currently 500MB of data in it according to the storage screen. However, when you open the folder it has nothing in it.

Normally this folder holds things called .face and .tunes and audible files. I have deleted all of these so the open folder now just says 'no items'.

I would like to stress this is NOT the system memory where the OS files are stored. That is elsewhere and you can't open it or fiddle with it on the phone as far as I'm aware.

My issue is that over a period of a few months my miscellaneous folder fills up with enough data to make my tiny J3 unuseable, up to 1.5GB at times. I have found the only way to rectify this is to do a backup and reset of the phone. Which every couple of months is impractical at best.

The apps I have on my phone are minimal: Audible, Whatsapp, TuneIn, Spotify, Global Player. Where possible these are all stored on the SD card. Photos from my phone also go on the SD card.

So I'm stuck. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

 

[Rukbat]

Miscellaneous includes files that apps are keeping, not necessarily in a folder named "Miscellaneous". It's all the data you tell the apps to keep, all the data the apps are written to save, etc. They usually have read and write permissions only for the app, and since you can't log in as the app, you can't see them. But if you clear "Miscellaneous", you;ll be losing all that data.