My 16GB Note had been displaying the 'Storage space running out' message off and on, so I moved as much user data (pics, videos etc.) as I could off the tablet and uninstalled a number of apps. After finishing this the storage displayed it was just over half full. Several hours later I went back to the tablet, no rebooting or shutting off in the meantime, and the 'Storage space...' message was displaying again, and it tells me I have 317MB available. There is not enough room to replace the apps or files I had deleted!
The category with the largest amount in storage is 'Miscellaneous', with 7.31GB, in particular cloudagent with 6.58GB. As I have Dropbox installed on here, I am thinking it must be storing data locally? I can't see why the storage would have increased so drastically overnight, however.
I am running the stock OS, Android version 4.1.2, model GT-N8010
Regards,
Simone.
*EDIT*
Okay, so I think I discovered the problem in my case.
I had recently bought a Samsung Blu-ray player and linked it with my tablet using the Samsung Link (formerly Allshare Play) software. In the software, there is an option to link cloud storage services such as Dropbox, which I did. I displayed some photographs from Dropbox on my player, then disconnected.
When I realised the cloudagent folder was the one holding the most data on sdcard0, I went through the options. At first I thought it was Dropbox synching with my Note via the Cloud function, so I disabled the option to sync pictures and video with the Note, and cleared Dropbox's cache, but there was less than 10MB stored there to begin with. So I went looking again and realised it was Dropbox's connection to Samsung Link which was the problem, as it had evidently downloaded nearly 7GB of my photographs to the internal memory. So I unlinked Dropbox from Samsung Link (why it would need to download files from a cloud service in order to display them on a remote machine is beyond me), and deleted the Samsung Link folder from sdcard0. Voila, my Note now tells me I have 6.76GB available and it has sped up considerably. Sigh.
The category with the largest amount in storage is 'Miscellaneous', with 7.31GB, in particular cloudagent with 6.58GB. As I have Dropbox installed on here, I am thinking it must be storing data locally? I can't see why the storage would have increased so drastically overnight, however.
I am running the stock OS, Android version 4.1.2, model GT-N8010
Regards,
Simone.
*EDIT*
Okay, so I think I discovered the problem in my case.
I had recently bought a Samsung Blu-ray player and linked it with my tablet using the Samsung Link (formerly Allshare Play) software. In the software, there is an option to link cloud storage services such as Dropbox, which I did. I displayed some photographs from Dropbox on my player, then disconnected.
When I realised the cloudagent folder was the one holding the most data on sdcard0, I went through the options. At first I thought it was Dropbox synching with my Note via the Cloud function, so I disabled the option to sync pictures and video with the Note, and cleared Dropbox's cache, but there was less than 10MB stored there to begin with. So I went looking again and realised it was Dropbox's connection to Samsung Link which was the problem, as it had evidently downloaded nearly 7GB of my photographs to the internal memory. So I unlinked Dropbox from Samsung Link (why it would need to download files from a cloud service in order to display them on a remote machine is beyond me), and deleted the Samsung Link folder from sdcard0. Voila, my Note now tells me I have 6.76GB available and it has sped up considerably. Sigh.
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