Free up a lot of internal space on Android.

mrk · 22 Apr 2013 at 09:01

If you use your camera quite a lot then you'll find that the internal dcim folder may contain a large thumbnails folder. Mine was 2GB even though I store all camera captures on the sdxc card.

Might be useful for some!

tigerstyle · 22 Apr 2013 at 09:45

862MB here, but thumb nails from photos I'd taken off the phone months ago, strange bit of android there!

Uhtred · 22 Apr 2013 at 09:58

I noticed this some time ago however they always seem to come back (something to do with the gallery app i think?)

Rusty! · 22 Apr 2013 at 10:38

Yep, it's to do with the gallery app. You can delete it, but they will be regenerated.

JRJ · 22 Apr 2013 at 11:07

I use SDmaid which clears these out

benjo · 22 Apr 2013 at 12:29

JRJ said:
I use SDmaid which clears these out

Same. The Empty Directories remover is awesome too.

So many random folders left over from applications that I don't need.

mrk · 23 Apr 2013 at 10:46

Hmm interesting, do you think it's related to the media scanner service that runs in the background perhaps? If so then this may explain why it comes back as \i don't use the stock gallery but QuickPic which has its own thumb database.

Orcvader · 23 Apr 2013 at 11:35

Possibly. But then disabling the media scanner won't work either since other apps rely on it.

Maybe it's time for you to move the photos onto something else

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mrk · 23 Apr 2013 at 11:46

Oh this is not a problem as such as you'll see from my op that I use the sd card for all media. Just nice not to have space consumed that doesn't need to be consumed and this folder fills up regardless of where the photos are kept.