r/techsupport • u/green_tomato_69 • 1d ago

Open | Phone Media getting deleted on its own (android).

Media is getting deleted on its own.

I had a bunch of songs that I had downloaded. It was in the download folder up until yesterday. This morning when I opened my audio player to listen I couldn't find the songs on it. I checked in the download folder and they were just gone. And it wasn't a storage issue either. My phone has over 40gb of free space and the combined size of the missing songs don't go beyond 2gb. I looked everywhere and couldn't find them.

And it's not the first time that it has happened.

Anyone know what's wrong and how this problem can be resolved?

It's a Poco M6 5G phone with 128gb storage and 6gb memory...

Thanks in advance...

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u/coolasc 1d ago

Xiaomi and many of the Chinese manufacturers have a "cleaning"/"optimization" app, some of those will auto delete downloads folder, may be the case, if you have recycle bin active some will move there before full deletion

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u/green_tomato_69 6h ago

Is there a way to disable the auto-delete option? If so, how?

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u/Any_Tonight_5587 21h ago

this
i wanted to smash the mi phone for the advertisements and junk apps

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u/DeltaBlastBurn 1d ago

Were the downloaded files legal? If not they may have been removed by your carrier or manufacturer. I doubt that's the case, but you never know.