[ale] Slightly OT: decent disk usage/file viewer for Android?

neal at mnopltd.com neal at mnopltd.com
Sat Mar 12 09:37:19 EST 2022


Managing disk on linux seems easy:  du -sh *    .... find the big ones, 
repeat.
or run find to locate the big files.

On Android, I'm regularly butting my head into s____ stuff...

- If you regularly attach pictures to email and resize them, it places 
the resized image in some weird folder it conveniently forgets about 
when it comes time to clean up.

- When you run out of space and nothing works anymore, there is no 
direct path to figure out "ok, WHERE am I chewing up space?"   Yeah, you 
can go through individual apps, to the extent that is accurate, but 
those apps seem to be able to squirrel away files the UI doesn't know 
about.

- Some apps like RTA Pro create snapshot images that I can never find 
again.   Like the native FILE app simply isn't showing me EVERYTHING.

Is there a dependable Files/Disk Usage/Storage app which sees 
everything?

regards,

Neal


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