Lost downloaded and sync

[dragnier]

I updated my phone's firmware this morning and after the phone came back on, all of my spotify downloaded content had disappeared completely. I had to select and redownload/sync all of the playlists I had previously already chosen.

I am wondering if those old files are sitting on my phone somewhere clogging up space that could be used for something else and, if so, how to get rid of them.

I am also wondering what caused this to happen as I have updated my phone before without this problem. I am using an HTC Merge and this is really the first problem I have had with it in the year I've owned the phone.

[Goodman]

Spotify typically saves its cache here: /mnt/sdcard/Android/Data/

You can also do a search for com.spotify.mobile.android.ui

As to why it disappeared; I couldn't tell you, but I guess a firmware update could wipe some data in the process.

[dragnier]

thank you, I found the files. However, I have no way of knowing which ones might be duplicates because they are named with hash instead of anything recognizable. Will spotify clean up the duplicates on its own eventually?

[Goodman]

Well, you could by date modified/created, but if you're really concerned about potentially "lost" space I'd suggest removing Spotify, clearing the cache, removing any remnants and then reinstalling completely "fresh" 🙂