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SD Maid 2/SE is Android's most thorough cleaning tool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.darken.sdmse
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Accessing Android/media #1430

Closed Gaijw78282 closed 1 month ago

Gaijw78282 commented 1 month ago

Hello I come here to suggest to have put an option to show hidden files of the system because often these files save data that increases over time like those of WhatsApp that is in the android folder > media that is hidden and does not show in the SD app anymore.

d4rken commented 1 month ago

Can you elaborate? If the permissions allow, SD Maid already shows files in Android/media.

You can browse there with the Storage Analyzer:

Analyzer > Apps > WhatsApp > App Media

Screenshot from 2024-10-10 10-37-29

d4rken commented 1 month ago

From https://github.com/d4rken-org/sdmaid-se/issues/1431#issue-2578649691

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a92e22d3-7a5a-46ec-91a5-e646c461c1c6

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d9533175-c9ea-4fff-9b31-6f6409031ff6

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a92e22d3-7a5a-46ec-91a5-e646c461c1c6

Uploading Screen_Recording_20241010_090127_My Files.mp4…

In these videos shows in the app where I can not find the hidden folder and in the other shows my app file administrator my phone and S23 5G android 14 this watsapp folder is in the android directory and in the SD analyzer but does not show this folder.

d4rken commented 1 month ago

You are trying to access the folder the wrong way.

You are going:

Analyzer > Storage > User Files > ...

but all files under Android/media belong to specific apps. So you have to go

Analyzer > Storage > Apps > WhatsApp > App Media > ...