Not to discourage you, but I have nearly 10TB of apk files and I still think its not enough haha
I started with small, so you can
Good luck!
How on earth do you have 10TB of APK files? Console game collections are that size and they can get pretty damn big in size per game.
Genuinely curious, that sounds like an amazing collection.
Web scrapping, constantly updating and keeping old files, years and years of data collection
Wow thats beyond massive
I think many would be incompatible or will be, soon
If you keep a device old enough to run them it’s fine
you can still run them with an android emulator
Its still opening but what I meant is that even with OBBs and other datas, some games still wouldn’t run.
I think you could decompile and recompile them if needed, but I don’t know much about Android/apk related stuff
but most android apps are made in java which runs on a JVM
No, because most of them have data to download anyway, so if they go down, the APK itself will be useless.
If you backup /obb’s, it usually won’t. From Android 1.0 - 11, that should be fine.
The hard part is with newer Androids that block access to the /Android/data/obb trees.
There’s many ways to access obb, like use the built-in file manager.
Make sure to have different versions of Android on tap as well. Custom roms from XDS would be a good place to start.
for only 8 gigs i wouldn’t even bother thinking about it tbh
Most of them are not in playstore anymore and this folder includes OBBs. I tried running some of them but unfortunately they dont run anymore. At least on android 9+. I have deleted them now.
I would assume you could emulate an older version of Android and run them on that?
No offense, but that was stupid. It’s 8 gigabyte. It doesn’t cost you anything to keep 8 GB around. If you’re really needing that space just get a flash drive or something and save it somewhere.
I have probably 500GB on my HDD that I just don’t feel like deleting. Sometimes I download folder gets up to 500+GB before I notice.
I know but I have to let them go I guess for my mental health too. I just hope this wont be me back in the future.
So on the grand scheme of things, someone out there is definitely holding on to them so no harm no foul. That being said, what the guy at the top comment implied is that 8GB is such a small amount of space that you shouldn’t even have to “worry” about keeping it, just keep it because its so small it won’t do you no harm to have it around.
Or dump it into data hoarders and let someone else take the storing burden.
What for?
Lol right? I’ve got 8gb on an empty flash drive from 10 years ago. I download game patches bigger than that on the regular
You could have tried on an older android device first. But for 8 gigs, I wouldn’t even have bothered. I’d just throw them in a bucket and be done with it.
Or emulator
Idk why people are downvote u lol, if they don’t work and hold no value to you anymore, there’s no reason to keep it, whether it’s 100gb, 100gb or 100mb.
The downvotes are because OP made this post asking if is worth it to keep it. Then goes on and deletes them anyway. Why ask if you’ve already decided what you were going to do in the first place.
They do still work, just not on the latest version of android. Old devices and emulators still exist.
Android 14 won’t run any of these old apps (only allows 64 bit) so it was pointless to keep anyway.
Why do you ask, then.
OP thought 8gb is a lot and were proud to show it off. I had like 50gb of apk and shit. It’s not that I dont want to deletes it, I just lost it in my nested folder.
Are you mad??
Anything you find value in keeping safe is worth saving
I have a tron.ipa app from my 4th generation ipod touch that I have in case my ipod breaks and I have to get another one. I bought a Monster brand Tron light disc ipod dock, and the lighting effects only work with the tron app. Useless to probably 99.9% of people, but priceless to me.
My brother in christ it is always worth it 😃
I have 500 gigs of media(sitcoms and movies)
Nice.
Cool Archive! Find it all on apkmirror and if some apks aren’t available, put it on internet archive or on your website.
Yea, absolutely worth it.
If you don’t want it upload it somewhere and share it, every collection has worth.
It’s worth it to hoard anything.
Except for CP of course.
Club Penguin content is 100% worth hoarding
Except for CP of course.
Yes, Officer this is the guy I was talking about.
Even CP worth hoarding… if you are one of those dudes working on filters to detect it
don’t ask woman about her age
don’t ask man about his salary
don’t ask ML specialist how they made model capable of detecting illegal content
I’d add:
don’t ask the sysadmin why they had to go testify in court
It’s never good.
The biggest problem is all the data that’s lost because many games are sideloading content/updates on their own. So we need not only the apk’s (which are also important of course) but all the extra stuff/real content which has to be dumped from the devices.
I would say yes… for the following reasons:
- some mobile games get updated often, with the new versions being worse than older ones, or having content cut from them etc…
- then there are a lot of games that never gotten updated for a long time, and can no longer be installed and run on modern devices
- perhaps there are a lot of delisted games from the Google play store since 2016?
So I think this collection of yours does have some archival value! :)
Would you be willing to share this? Torrent or any method that is easy for you?