[Hidden-tech] Droid phone storage issue

Mon Nov 22 18:31:25 UTC 2021

I had the same bedeviling problems of storage filling up despite deletions (on prior phone with less room), and that Google One app made the usability of actually clearing space so much easier than untangling various app storage settings to manage.

As an aside, it also helped me to discover that for years I must have often hit an audio recording button that looked like other red app buttons, so I had tons of big audio files taking space outside of my manual delete methods. My Google-One helped find that problem. The small cost saved me, like, $500 in lost billable time.

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it sounds like you have deleted imto the trash (allows undelete)
Like all modern devices there are a dozens paths to what looks like the same feature

SO
Google Photos does automate back up to https://photos.google.com
To delete images you have to use the 3 dots in the upper right to 'delete from device'
While the regular trash deletes from device and photos.google

OR
Get Files by google
It backs up to google drive and then you can delete from device
It also has an options to clear the 'trash' which is probably what you want.

Some of the confusion comes from options on the camera and 'File by G' that look like Photos but isn;t

Yeah - isn't tech fun.

Good luck
Rich

On 11/22/2021 11:29 AM, Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss wrote:
Thanks, Rob, but I don't think this will solve the problem. It's not about how much space I have in the Google cloud, but how I can get my actual device to notice that it has plenty of room. But it's still good to know about and I might upgrade at some point.
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:24 AM Rob Laporte <rob at 2disc.com<mailto:rob at 2disc.com>> wrote:
Google One: https://one.google.com/about

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Hi, folks, my Moto X4 Android doesn't seem to be releasing space when I delete. I removed more than 4000 photos (not an exaggeration) over the past ten days, including 2000+ on one day--and it still tells me I'm almost out of storage. I have restarted multiple times and also run a cleaner utility.

How do I get my space back?

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