Hi,

I'm coming across a problem with my N9 (16Gb), it looks like some application is eating up space, but I can't really see which one it is or where the data is stored. When I check the storage space info under Settings, I see that the usage of space allocated to applications is 2,0Gb/2,1Gb. In the details view, it is clear that the listed applications do not take up much space, but the last item on the list ("Others") shows 2,0Gb of used space.

Any ideas/tools to see exactly how much space each application is using? Thanks!

You can check your /home/ and /opt/ directories to find what is taking up how much space...

Also, nitdroid is installed in the userfs partition while all your emails are stored there too...

They can take up a huge amount of space too...

In terminal you can run for example:

to get the disk space usage under /opt. If that doesn't reveal the culprit you might have to run it for /home also, of course ignoring anything under MyDocs.

I was finding how to do a sort and using ajalkane's commands above you can do:

this would give you the size in MB of 1 level down in opt of the directories sorted from largest to smallest... You can replace the "1" in the command above if you want to increase the depth or you can take out "-d 1" so it will give you the breakdown of all sub-directories...


Edit: You can replace "-sm" with "-sk" to give you the size of directories in KB instead of MB...

Thanks a lot for the answers! I'm afraid I'm going to need to ask you to dumb it down a little bit for me, I'm not really a technical person... I mean, I can figure it out once I get the code into the right place, but I didn't catch what you meant by "terminal". I tried running that command on the DOS command prompt while the phone was connected in mass storage mode, but all I got was that the command was not valid.

Thanks for the patience

On your phone you should have an app called terminal, run it there...

If you don't have terminal on-device, go to security in settings and enable developer mode...

Also the most usage of those 2.1GB is usually by the stock games; galaxy of fire2, real golf and NFS shift so you can uninstall one or two to recover quite a substantial amount of space back...

OMG, after uninstalling this 3 games i recover 0.8 GB
Before: 2.5 GB / 4.2 GB, 370.1 MB / 2.1 GB and 4.3 / 9.5
After: 1.7 GB / 4.2 GB and the rest not changed

Ok, so I did enable developer mode and get terminal there. After fiddling a while with the codes you guys gave me, it seems there is nothing really out of the ordinary in the used space. I mean, the games do take up space, but uninstalling them frees up space in the area denominated "Installed apps". "Application data" still remains in 2,0/2,1Gb. The only thing that so far seems to bring it down (just a little bit) is clearing web browsing data.

I've found a few other discussions where other people had the same problem, but didn't really find many definitive solutions... I guess I'll back everything up and make a factory reset, but for what I've seen in those forums, it's not likely that will help.

Just wondering, any chance that there would data cached somewhere after every connection to a computer in mass mode for data transfer? And while I'm there, is there any way to get access to restricted folders. Also, where does the stuff downloaded from Nokia store go? I downloaded a ringtone some time ago that I don't like and want to get rid of it, but I can't find it in the same folder where all default ringtones are.

cache is located at /home/user/.cache and yes it counts towards "application data"...

ajalkane's post clearly mentioned that if you don't find anything in /opt/ to be unusual then just do it in /home/

So do that and see what is taking up the most space...

To give you an example i'll paste the output of the command on my ~/.cache folder (in MB):

Hi actually had followed both yours and ajalkane's instructions, but found nothing really that stood out. Also, when I ran the command on the /home folder it gave me some access errors.

I was just checking manually the hidden folders within /home and found that I have about 1.4Gb of stuff in the /home/share/.qmf. From what I can tell, it's all e-mails, and it should be ok to delete that content, so that should solve the problem. Thanks a lot for the help!