Agreed, it's been a work-in-progress since the HTC One. And since
there's no documentation, we poke around and eventually just get a new
phone, swapping one suite of bugs for another.

Just being able to see all the files and directories would be enough for
me.

BTW, Android 6.01 Marshmallow on a Nexus 6 here.

Best regards, Bob

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015, at 06:25 PM, John Ferrell wrote:
> An ordinary reboot sometimes will clean things up.  Androids lack of=20
> housekeeping becomes is on par with 1978.  There is at least one other=20
> way to force garbage collection but my recollection is very slow=20
> tonight. Its not a new problem, you will recognize it when you see it.
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> On 12/16/2015 3:00 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
> > It seems that every time I update an app in my phone, my available
> > storage drops by the size of the update package. So if I have an app
> > that is 16 megs and I've updated it five times, I'm down over 80 megs.
> > No big deal by itself, but by rough calculations I'm wasting over a
> > gigabyte to all these useless packages, leaving less room for important
> > cat videos.
> >
> > Unfortunately the folder that houses all the install packages is
> > invisible and unavailable.
> >
> > Is there an app that lets you zotz these files, or do I need to root my
> > phone first?
> >
> > Thanks for any insight.
> >
> > Bob

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