N86 - Phone memory full

 I am, currently, using a Nokia N86. It's a nice phone, with a huge amount of internal memory, 8 Gb. I always saved everything in the mass memory, photos, videos and messages.

One fine day I saw a message on the phone's screen which made me skip a heart-beat. The message told me to delete some data from the phone memory as it was almost full!

WHAT??!!!??

But I thought I never saved anything in the phone-memory. Well, I was right. I never did save anything in the phone-memory. But still the message showed up. Again and again!

I deleted the cookies, emptied the cache, checked for installed apps in the phone-memory, did everything I could to make sure that my phone-memory was not being used by something large. But all in vain. I just could not find the reason.

I turned to the internet for help. Looked at a lot of pages in various forums in the hope of finding a solution. I found nothing that could help me.

Then I turned back to my phone. Using the phone's file manager I accessed every folder and sub-folder, opened it to find out what was inside. And there I found it. The problem.

The phone memory has a folder named wscache which has a sub-folder named diff which houses some folders, three of which are callogs, contacts and messages. This trio was the culprit.

What happened is that these folders saved logs of every dialled call, received call, missed call, every message and every contact that I saved on the phone!!!

Clearly, the heaviest of the three folders was callogs. I tried to empty the folder but could not. The amount of data in it was huge! The phone used to hang while doing that. I turned to my computer for help. I connected my phone to it and accessed the three folders one by one and emptied them all.

VOILA!

The message stopped appearing.

Relief!

Now I make sure that I regularly empty these folders, to keep my phone-memory from getting all used up.

Prevention, as they say, is better than cure!!!