Literally never had this problem, not once, starting at Android 2.3 when I got my first android phone. It's literally just files and folders, like any other OS.

Even when dealing with apps that don't have a way to check where a file is, any file manager app worth a damn, will have a way to easily find the most recently saved/modified files.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (6 children)

So I had a problem with this, and I am a cd.. cd/ format . person who loves computer file systems.

I think what messed me up is that certain apps have different default save folders, and I wouldn't know where they were or forget.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This ☝️

And when your storage is full from videos and gifs that friends exchange in WhatsApp or whatever, or Instagram keeping everything you post, and you want to clean up, there's no easy way to do it.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh boy. Do I have a bone to pick with whatsapp. Their message data management is a complete clusterfuck.

Though if you just want to delete media, that's easy. ~~Whatsapp has it's own folder in root that contains a folder for each file type~~. Edit: Not anymore, it's in /Android/media/whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media now. You can safely delete them all, though media files will no longer be accessible in your message history, as WhatsApp has literally no way to keep that stuff around without monolithically saving all of it on your device, locally, forever.

Instagram saves content to a couple folders, all in easy to find places like root, Movies, DCIM and Pictures.

As for Instagram app data, you can clear that from app settings.

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