2022-07-24-List all files on Android phone

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There are so many files on my Android device that I can’t remember where I have saved them.

Solution

Here is my simple solution. 1- Install Termux app. 2- Use find command to list them all. The below command will list them all in a text file which allows me to search and locate them easily.

The find command

find /storage/emulated/0/ > /storage/emulated/0/phonelist.txt

On newer Android versions, some directories are not accessible by user’s app. But it is OK.

find: ‘/storage/emulated/0/Android/data’: Permission denied
find: ‘/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb’: Permission denied

Bash function

If you use this often, you can make a bash function in your Termux ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc. For example:

function lsphone() {
  DDDD=$(date -Idate)
	echo 'Listing...'
  find /storage/emulated/0/ > /storage/emulated/0/localhost/resources/phonelist/phone$DDDD.txt
  echo "Done! \nCheck /storage/emulated/0/localhost/resources/phonelist/phone$DDDD.txt"
}

my one

I also made a python full text search app to search files on my phone. So I use the below function.


function lsphone2() {
  DDDD=$(date -Idate)
	echo 'Listing..., please wait...'
  find /storage/emulated/0/ -type f > /storage/emulated/0/localhost/resources/phonelist/phone$DDDD.txt

	# add <br> before each file path
	sed -i -e "s~/storage/emulated/0/~<br><br>/storage/emulated/0/~g" /storage/emulated/0/localhost/resources/phonelist/phone$DDDD.txt

  echo "Done listing! \nCheck /storage/emulated/0/localhost/resources/phonelist/phone$DDDD.txt"
	echo 'Deleting indexed old sqlite3 in: /storage/emulated/0/localhost/indexed_database/phonelist.sqlite3'
	rm -rf /storage/emulated/0/localhost/indexed_database/phonelist.sqlite3
	echo "----\n"
	echo "Done all"
}