FP3 camera says I can’t take photos. It says ‘you are running out of space. Change the quality setting or delete some photos’. I am not running out of space.
I have even deleted some photos and videos and then also deleted them from the bin. This is really annoying. I’m on holiday and can’t take any photos.
I have cleared the cache as that is the only other thing I could find online.
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I guess you are using a SD card formatted as internal memory?
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Sorry I have no idea what that means. I bought the FP3 two/three years ago and I use it. I don’t know anything technical about it.
So you didn’t install a memory card?
Can you show us how much memory is free?
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I’ve used 59 of the 64 GBs available.
Thank you for your help. I will look back here tomorrow.
I have a Neighbor like this. but the reason your running low on space is how modern apps run extra tasks in internal memory. you need to at least keep about 4gb of space free. its easy to expand storage of the phone with a simple microSD card. Sandisk is very reliable and can be found almost anywhere. even at a local store. its also very cheap. my local Wal-Mart sells a 32GB for around $7.99 give or take when these items go on sale. you can usually have the person install this for you at my local store. So maybe it will be the same for you. hope this helps.
Go for 128 GB or more if available, and format it as portable storage to avoid trouble soon again.
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Thank you. I’ve just taken the phone apart and there is no micro SD card.
So I assume what I’m doing is taking photos which are backed up in my Google account (that says I have used 5GB out of 21), but the photos are still on my phone. This would be why I’m running out of space???
If I get a Micro SD card will it do the same?- save the photos to both the SD card and my Google account?
Think I will also delete a few apps I don’t use so I can actually have some photos of my trip. Am currently relying on my partner who has an iPhone 
Again, thank you.
Apps themselves usually have very little “footprint” in terms of storage space.
When you have added the SDXC card and formatted it as portable storage, I suggest you move the whole contents of the DCIM folder to the card, using the FILES app. Typically it’s videos, photos, music and maps (if you downloaded any) that take up the most space.
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