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Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Ashroft98 — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:34:06 GMT

Hey folks!

Okay,my problem starts when i start just exploring internal storage(and wonder what had really fill up my internal memory),then i met with the folder "DCIM"->".thumbnails" and i found two .thumbdata3 with 384MB each(makes it roughly 750MB,combined) and below them are thumbnail of my pictures(sizing 20kb each)..My phone had kept thumbnails from my pictures and videos eversince the first time it was switched on.When i deleted a picture in Album app,the thumbnail of it is still there.How do i overcome with this issue?And SONY,what is it inside ".thumbdata3" that in such took too much space in my internal storage?

Any advice and tips would be appreciated

BR from Ashroft

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Uliwooly — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:37:01 GMT

You can delete the thumbnail folder, your phone will create a new folder, you can do so with a file manager

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Ashroft98 — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:57:50 GMT

You mean,if I delete that folder,the phone will create another "thumbdata3" file with only the latest thumbnails of my pictures?Which literally use lesser space?

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Uliwooly — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:16:12 GMT

yeah

http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2013/07/how-to-reclaim-1gb-from-your-androids-disk-space.html

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Ashroft98 — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:31:52 GMT

Thanks alot pal!

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Uliwooly — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:35:33 GMT

Anytime

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

NutMagnet3 — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:31:12 GMT

Many thanks for this tip...

I seemed to be spending more time updating the apps on the phone than actually using it.. Pretty much filled up the internal memory with these thumbnails on my Sony Xperia Miro and I've been deleting the cache and history every time an app wants to update to make space..

I found this folder a while back but thought it would cause problems if I deleted the thumbnails.

:smileysmileywink: Happy days..

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

Auxperia — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:39:36 GMT

even after u delete the thumbnaildatas it get hide still occupies the memory

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

martius — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:48:46 GMT

Hi,

so I see that problem is well known and I can confirm that it still exists. I have been using xperia z5 compact with latest updates for 1 year. My 2 thumbnails files have grown to 1 GB each! As you sugested, I deleted my photos from phone as well as the thumbnail folder but it didnt help. I still can not free memory on my phone.

Is there any working solutions for this problem?

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

skaterpoem — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:35:53 GMT

I'm using Xperia Z3 Compact and I have the same problem.

I delete thumbnail folder which is around 1,5 GB but after a while it reappear again with almost same amount of file size.

I found this solution from this forum and it looks like worked for me for now.

EDIT: I used Es File Explorer.

1. delete the ".thumbnails" folder in the "DCIM" folder

2. after deleting, create a new file and name it ".thumbnails". (Create a new "file" not a "folder")

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

martius — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 19:33:37 GMT

I've done what you suggested. New files have indeed 0 KB however overall free memory didn't enlarged Any other advices?

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

randomninity1 — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 15:09:20 GMT

I did as suggested and now I no longer have a ".thumbnail" folder with 2 ".thumbdata3xxxxx" with 1.4gb each (so nearly 3gb). I do have a 0b ".thumbnail" file inside the DCIM folder.

However when 6check the available space for my Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, it barely got 200mb freed after all this...

Any ideas? Advices? Solutions would be better 😜

Re: Thumbnail : Filling up Internal Storage

ProfCamillo — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:21:56 GMT

I had the same problem on my cell phone, and I could not find it yet. Could you solve it in any way thankful Luciano