Storage Emulated 0 Download Location In Samsung
Imke Loyack
I recently lost the contents of a micro-SD card and hadn't backed up the contents recently enough. Luckily, I noticed that the pictures I was missing happen to be in /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.thumbnails on my Android 5.1 device. The sad thing is I cannot get to those files to do anything with them on my device. The only way I even knew that they were there is because ASTRO File Manager brought them up when I searched for pictures. I would love to be able to put these in a safe place and hoped to be able to do so via my computer. Does anyone know of a way to get my computer (Windows 7) to recognize this file? (Naturally, I told my computer to view hidden files, so that's not the issue.) All I can see is /Internal storage and /SD card (not /storage). If you have a workaround, please let me know too. If I can move (or better yet copy) these photos to another place on my phone and then move them, that would be absolutely wonderful.
The "/storage/emulated/" folder does not really exist. It's what might be called a "symbolic link", or, in simpler terms, a reference to where the real data is stored. You'll need to find the actual physical location on your device where it is stored. Since it's in /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.thumbnails, it's probably located in /Internal Storage/DCIM/.thumbnails/. Please note that that this folder probably only contains "thumbnails", which are very small versions of the real files. It's possible your real files are gone forever if your SD card is irrecoverable.
Recently, I've figured out that if I delete files from /sdcard/Download it deletes files from /storage/emulated/0/Download. And if I add the files into /sdcard/Download it duplicates them in /storage/emulated/0/Download.
In short, /sdcard and /storage/emulated/0 - which represent a FAT/vFAT/FAT32 filesystem - point towards /data/media/0 (or /mnt/expand/[UUID]/media/0 in case of Adoptable Storage) through FUSE or sdcardfs emulation.
Now the apps (and MTP, which is also an app) interact with emulated storage instead of /data/media, achieving both purposes at the same time i.e. enforcing permission checks underneath and looking like FAT filesystem on upper surface.
I use this app I use to make videos, but when I make the vids it sends them to "storage/emulated/0"(there's also a "/Movies/" in there somewhere), but I have no clue where to find this folder! I have a Galaxy S21 btw if that helps. Thank you in advance.
Note: At least in my phone, /storage/emulated/0 does not correspond to SD card, but to intern memory. This method did not work for my external card, but I never tried it with another phone.
Plug in your device and run adb shell which will get you a command shell on your device. You don't have permission to read /storage/emulated/ but since you know it's in subdirectory 0 just go cd /storage/emulated/0 and you will be able to look around and interact as aspected.
So, the /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera is the same folder as your normal DCIM/Camera folder. Its just a symlink. So the files are actually in the right location you just have an app that put bad data into the MediaStore Database.
When accessing files from your PC your are actually enumerating the MediaStorage database for files. Its not pulling a traditional directory lists. So what you see is based on what is in that database and the path entries in the database. Files in the database pointing to emulated directories aren't shown as they are assumed to be duplicates as its the same physical directory as your normal DCIM/Camera. What is going on is that some poorly written third party apps are inserting entries into the database with the /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera path instead of the proper root path to DCIM/Camera. Which means that the MTP service can't see them when you are hooked up to your PC.
Android recommends that you call Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory.getPath() instead of hardcoding /sdcard/ in path name. This returns the primary shared/external storage directory. So, if storage is emulated, this will return /storage/emulated/0. If you explore the device storage with a file explorer, the said directory will be /mnt/sdcard (confirmed on Xperia Z2 running Android 6).
In my case, /storage/emulated/0/ corresponds to my device's root path. For example, when i take a photo with my phone's default camera application, the images are saved automatically /store/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/mypicname.jpeg
To RESTORE your pictures from /storage/emulated/0/ simply open the 100Andro file..there you will see your pictures although you may not have access to them in you pc explorer. There open each picture one by one, go on setting (three dots..) and save the picture. It will show up in the android file 'Pictures' from where you can also copy them by using your explorer. There is no 'save all' function, however so it must be done one by one, but it works.
Recently, I've figured out that if I delete files from /sdcard/Download it deletes files from /storage/emulated/0/Download. And if I add the files into /sdcard/Download it duplicates then in /storage/emulated/0/Download.
From what I remember, this confusion arises due to keeping older paths for backwards compatibility. Basically, none of your files are getting duplicated, because both /sdcard/Download and /storage/emulated/0/Download point to the exact same location. The /0/ here is for the multi-user feature introduced in JB, and refers to the main user. If you had one more user, it'd be /1/ for that particular user, and so on.
So, i tried the same as MellowDrain, in uTorrent it did not allow me to change a download location, but in FLUD i was able to create a folderr in the root /storage/emulated/0/ and it worked after restart f the phone.
Short of rooting your Android device, the trick is to treat /storage/emulated/0 as though it were read-only (Syncthing FAQ: How do I serve a folder from a read only filesystem?). With the proper permissions, Syncthing will still have access to read/write into the subdirectories (e.g., /storage/emulated/0/DCIM, /storage/emulated/0/Documents).
A copy of every single clip that I have ever downloaded onto my android device remains unsecured in the app directory on the device. The fact that access to that location requires root or administrative privilege is no excuse whatsoever. There is no way to rationalize downloaded security videos being left on the device like that, after all traces of them have been deleted elsewhere. This staggering oversight is wantonly irresponsible; videos which the user believe no longer exist still do exist and can be accessed on the android device; the internal storage on the android device accumulates large volumes of unnecessary material which would only be noticed if someone audits the drive as I did.
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S4. It's all updated, is running on the factory settings, and has been working great. However, I just got a new app "Pony Creator" by General Zoi. The app has been working great, but it has a feature that stores pictures in " /storage/emulated/0/PonyImages/#####.png"
I have searched online, but most of the help I've seen seems to be for Linux/Unix users, and I'm not very good with working with coding, and I was hoping to find out how to access the pictures. Perhaps then I can figure out how to transfer them into my regular gallery. Does anyone know how to open files that are in " /storage/emulated/0/ "
/storage/emulated/0/ is just Android's way of referring to the main internal memory of your device, so Poweramp has been told to look for (or had previously found music in) the Download folder in your device's internal memory. Try disabling (unticking) that folder in PA Settings > Library > Music Folders, as that ought to just be a temporary/transient folder for file downloads until you decide where to put them, not a music repository.
Last error: Error: Could not upgrade from version 0 to 1: Error: File '/storage/emulated/0/Documents/Joplin/.sync/version.txt' does not exist and could not be created, or is a directory. Path: '/storage/emulated/0/Documents/Joplin/.sync/version.txt'
Now from file manager I can see that file. And when I rename it, the Error message actually changes:
Last error: Error: Could not upgrade from version 0 to 1: Error: File '/storage/emulated/0/Documents/Joplin/info.json' does not exist and could not be created, or is a directory. Path: '/storage/emulated/0/Documents/Joplin/info.json'
To put it simply, the Android storage/emulated/0 folder is the full name of the root directory that you access all your files from in the file explorer on your Android device. However, as its name suggets, this folder is emulated storage, which means that it is merely a link to the actual internal storage of your device's operating system. This is done for security reasons.
If you've ever used a file manager like ES File Explorer or ADB Shell, you would have seen that it writes out a file directory that you're inside in an unusual manner. For instance, it's no surprise that you may see a file path like storage/emulated/0 without knowing what it means, especially when you can't access these folders in your internal storage unless the smartphone is rooted.
Apart from locking you out from the system files in your internal storage, Android developers use what is known as an emulated folder, or emulated storage, to prevent unauthorized changes and access to the actual file system on your Android device.
Due to this setup with emulated storage, Android gives you access to your files without actually accessing the actual physical location on the smartphone. storage/emulated/0 represents the root of the storage you see on your smartphone.
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