What is a THUMBDATA4-1967290299 File Type?
The file THUMBDATA4-1967290299 is created by the phone Gallery application to cache information about the images that have been indexed. By caching indexed images, the Gallery application loads the images faster and reduces the delay; displaying thumbnails.
The larger the file THUMBDATA4-1967290299 is, the more pictures you have in the appos; application Gallery. It can become several hundreds of Mo or, in some cases, several GB if you have a large number of images in your Galerie application. Each time the file size increases, a new image is added. Even when an image is deleted, the indexed properties of the image remain in the file.
Use an Android file manager to navigate to your d' thumbnail indexes, which are located in the sdcard / DCIM / thumbnails directory. The THUMBDATA4-1967290299 is usually stored with .THUMBDATA4-1763508120, .THUMBDATA3-1967290299 and .THUMBDATA3-1763508120 files.
To reduce the size of the THUMBDATA4-1967290299 file delete the images from l' application Gallery then delete the file THUMBDATA4-1967290299. The file will be regenerated by Galerie application but only for the images stored in the application.
If you do not want to delete images from your device, delete the file THUMBDATA4-1967290299 and create a new file in the same folder thumbnails to l' help d' a file explorer, such as ES File Explorer. Name the .thumbdata4-1967290299 file. It will stop the creation of the THUMBDATA4-1967290299 file.