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I'm a big SMS user. Is this what's eating up my 9210i's internal disk space?

01 February 2006 · by Steve Litchfield
Performance, Troubleshooting, Miscellaneous Series 80

Q. I am repeatedly seeing a message 'memory full' on my Nokia 9210i, even though I've moved all my documents to the memory card. Now I can't use my Communicator because I don't want to delete the only remaining files I can find there - my large (over a thousand) store of SMS messages and Calendar data. And when I go to 'Control Panel | Memory | Device', it says that out of 16MB available, 11MB are mysterious 'other file types'. I connected the 9210i to my PC, but there I could see only two folders on the 'C' disc: 'Documents' (almost zero) and 'System' (5MB). What's eating up all my memory?

A. Your main problem is all those SMS messages, as each is stored in the \System folder as a separate file of only a few bytes but allocated to a whole cluster on the disk. This is a well known effect on any hard or flash disk. Effectively, most of your internal disk is being wasted. The only solution is to remove most of these SMS messages, sorry. Text messaging is normally for small, transient communications and Symbian didn't design Messaging to keep such a large store of tiny files. If you're worried about keeping important information, search it out and copy and paste the text into a Word file.