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Can anyone totally delete .thumbdata3--1967290299?

Maxreall
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Can anyone totally delete .thumbdata3--1967290299?

My phone is xperia Z1. When my storage is full, I found that there are two big files in Card, \DCIM\.thumbnails: .thumbdata3-1763508120 (3.95G) .thumbdata3--1967290299(4.02G).
And when I delete it, the storage will not change, it didn't release any space, I still only have 600mb space. And after 1day or 2days, the two files:.thumbdata3-1763508120 and .thumbdata3--1967290299 appeared in \DCIM\.thumbnails again, even became bigger than before.

So I search lots of methods for these two files online. most of them did not work.
I bulit two empty files which have the same name with .thumbdata3-1763508120 and .thumbdata3--1967290299, and then delete the original big files in the .thumbnails folder, and repalced these two empty files with the same names into it. But after that the space also didn't change, what so funny is, after two days, the two empty files became to the original 2 big files(each one has nearly 4G) .:smileyshocked:
And don't know Why when I delete these two files, though I can't found them anymore, the space they take isn't free out. I believe that after I delete them, the two big files are sent to some system folder for backup use and protected by the system, then it will recover them again even I have replaced them with the same name 0kb files!

and one more thing is that I didn't found the folder named LOST.DIR in my card.

Is it a bug? could anyone help me with this problem??? They take me nearly 7 GB space, oh, my god, I can't even update the walkman due to low space now !!!!:smileyshocked:

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Dj_DSP
Visitor

I am using "Sony Xperia L" & "Sony Xperia SP, i'm also facing same issue with my Mobiles. after deleting these two files, space released. however after few hours these files again reflect in the file manager. These files consumes 60-80% space in my phone memory, even after there are only few images in my mobile. Request Sony support team to look in to the matter & suggest the solution.
Some1sm
Visitor

Same for me, I'm using Xperia M4 Aqua, the file is 3gb and Android only let me use 4gb from the phone Slightly_frowning_Face

JunoMart
Visitor

I have same problem with this thumbdata and it is taking too much space. Maybe Sony company didn't found how to solve this stupid issue. I think only phone reset is a way to get rid of this issue and always we sony users have to do it once the "King 👑 Thumbdata" created again with it's huge fat ash space!!

Technicians??  Do you really know what is Thumbdata?? Or you only know that you got only 4 thumbs.. 2 in hands and 2 in feet..!!

Pangloss
Visitor

Different phone M2 (D2303) with Android 5.1.1, same problem.

Is it possible that just few notice the problem?

I'd like at least to move the file from internal memory to SD.

BR, Danilo.

Fabioluiz100
Visitor

I have a Galaxy A5 2016 with the Android 7.0 and the same problem happens with me.

The .thumbdata3--1967290299 is for image files and the another is for videos. My files are using 2,19GB each one, occupying 55% of my memory.

Please, Google, fix this problem in Android.