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I recently adopted an SD card to my Xiaomi Redmi 7. Before I adopted the 64GB card, I was using around 8GB. Now my file manager says I am only using 2%, and under internal storage in settings I have 60GB of internal storage free. But under storage in settings, it says system storage is using 55GB and I only have 500MB free. I'm also getting the old notifications saying my storage is running out.

I'm not sure I understand the difference between internal and system storage, but I definitely can't see how system storage is using 55GB when it previously was happy with 7.

If anyone can help I would be most grateful.

Andrew T.
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  • Does this answer your question? How disk space is used on Android device? – alecxs Jan 20 '21 at 22:05
  • Hi, thanks, but this question is about how the space is used up by apps, it is the system storage that appears to be using 55gb on my phone. – Cmc Jan 21 '21 at 07:49
  • Does this answer your question? “System” using 342GB storage? – alecxs Jan 21 '21 at 08:02
  • May be your system has a "display bug" and therefore shows the sd-card as occupied because the space is used by the adopted storage partition. May be other apps like DiscInfo can solve this riddle. – Robert Jan 21 '21 at 08:15
  • Thanks, I'll have a look into that. – Cmc Jan 21 '21 at 10:17
  • This has maybe confused me a bit more, diskinfo doesn't seem to recognise the sd card at all and says I have used 7.5gb of 8gb of data space. Which maybe is a clue to what's going on..... – Cmc Jan 21 '21 at 10:37
  • I have added an image from drives. It shows the data filling up the 8gb as it did before I adopted the sd card, you can also see the almost empty as card. Perhaps I was confused, but I thought adopting the sd card would prevent this, I can't really see now what the benefit of adopting it was. – Cmc Jan 21 '21 at 10:49
  • see accepted answer from Ghostkeeper (2nd link) – alecxs Jan 21 '21 at 11:12
  • I have looked at that one now, the thing is, when I go to settings>storage> there is no sd card anymore since adopting, only non system storage and system storage, and cleaner, and not 3 dots in the corner, no way of going anywhere other then using the cleaner. new pic added. – Cmc Jan 21 '21 at 18:51

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