I seem to have a false reading of my storage space used by my apps. It shows 1.49 GB used by apps, but all that is installed to the internal memory besides integrated apps and features is the Adidas Train & Run app using 137 MB, and this app can't be installed to an SD card.
When I manually add together the listed size of all locally stored apps and features, I'm only coming up with approximately 982 MB used. Here is a further explanation of the issue.
I've been running Windows 10 on my Lumia 640 XL since the end of November. When build 10586.122 was released, I received notification that I didn't have enough storage for the update to download. I checked the storage space and noticed I had about 1.5 GB used by apps. I moved all the apps I could to my SD card and made sure it was set as the default storage location for everything.
This still did not clear enough space. The only apps I had left that were not part of the OS features and were not allowed to install on an SD card were the Adidas Train & Run app and Skype, which I rarely use. I deleted those long enough to get the update installed, then reinstalled the Adidas app.
Again yesterday when I tried to download build 10586.164, I was notified I didn't have enough storage space. The space used by apps was 1.49 GB on the internal storage, so again, I was able to get the update only after uninstalling the Adidas app.
Would this issue be resolved by performing a master reset? I never did this for two reasons:
1. There didn't seem to be a need because I wasn't experiencing performance issues.
2. There is one particular app I use that doesn't have any backup option. I would need to manually copy all data from this app and re-enter it after the reset, which will be a very time consuming task.
When I manually add together the listed size of all locally stored apps and features, I'm only coming up with approximately 982 MB used. Here is a further explanation of the issue.
I've been running Windows 10 on my Lumia 640 XL since the end of November. When build 10586.122 was released, I received notification that I didn't have enough storage for the update to download. I checked the storage space and noticed I had about 1.5 GB used by apps. I moved all the apps I could to my SD card and made sure it was set as the default storage location for everything.
This still did not clear enough space. The only apps I had left that were not part of the OS features and were not allowed to install on an SD card were the Adidas Train & Run app and Skype, which I rarely use. I deleted those long enough to get the update installed, then reinstalled the Adidas app.
Again yesterday when I tried to download build 10586.164, I was notified I didn't have enough storage space. The space used by apps was 1.49 GB on the internal storage, so again, I was able to get the update only after uninstalling the Adidas app.
Would this issue be resolved by performing a master reset? I never did this for two reasons:
1. There didn't seem to be a need because I wasn't experiencing performance issues.
2. There is one particular app I use that doesn't have any backup option. I would need to manually copy all data from this app and re-enter it after the reset, which will be a very time consuming task.
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