Hello,
I've bought a storage SD card.
I wish to move the "My documents" folder to this card.
I 've created a "My documents" folder on the SD card, and moved the files BUT the new folder does not replace the original one, and exploring My Pocket PC/My documents leads me to the empty old folder.
Is there a way to improve ?
More generally, what's the best practices when equiped with a SD Card ?
Thanks,
Jean-Jacques
You can create a shortcut on the root of your device's memory ( \ ) and make that shortcut point to "\Storage card\My Documents"
Most programs require you to point the path to your SD card yourself under options. i.e. Notes, you'll need to choose Tools>Options and pick "save to storage card". And in your storage card, make sure there's no file with name like ignore_my_doc or similar, or it will save to your SD's root instead of your 'my documents' folder.
How do you create the shortcut on \ to point to the storage card?
I have moved my documents to the storage card, but I still have an empty my documents on the \ .
Can't seem to figure out how to create the shortcut link.
In Notes, I have set it under options to point to the SD card.
Use Resco Explorer or Total Commander to create the shortcut.
Total Commander is great & its free. Get it from here (http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm)
Turns out I had Total Commander and just didn't know how to make a shortcut. Figured that out.
Now I have a file My Documents.lnk in \, and a My Documents on \ that is empty (I delete it and reboot and it keeps coming back), and a file called Old My Documents in \ that only has a dir called Templates in it. I can't delete the Old dir or the Template dir, no matter how I try. (I had renamed the orignal My Documents to Old My Documents after copying the folder to the storage card).
Is this making sense? Thanks for your help.
Using Total Commander, click on the folder you want to create the shortcut for, then from the File menu, choose >>>>> then Create shortcut.. It will ask you for the destination location of the shortcut. Click ok.
I really don't know what's that Old My Documents folder.
Anyone knows a solution for this plz ? :roll:
Maybe you need a registry hack.
Thanks, I did figure out how to make the shortcut, but I just can't get rid of the old docs directory and it keeps creating a new my docs dir at \.
And although there is a shortcut in \ to \Storage Card\My Documents, the Notes don't sync with the SD card.
I have changed the option in Notes to look at \Storage Card\My Documents
Very Weird.
The built-in notes program is very dummy!
I stopped using it; because I found a much better one : PhatPad
By the way, storing notes on the storage card is really risky!
Did you hear about the well know SD card wipe problem?
It happens to a lot of people here in this forum..!
I had experienced that SD issue...but it was always backed up so it was just a pain in the arse. Once I upgraded to 2003SE, knock on my wooden head, it hasn't happened again.
I'll try the subsitute program. Thanks...this is all very strange.
PhatPad is really the best notes program ever 8)
Same Question
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Sorry about that...but I would also like to move My Documents...I'd like to put mine in 'Storage' (the built in Storage on the BA)
I've tried exporting the reg and replacing \My Documents with \Storage\My Documents...and then reimporting.
Some things now save in \Storage\My Documents...but...
* I can't get rid of the templates folder
* My Documents keeps comming back!
I have moved My Documents to the SD card.
I made the registry change pointing it to the SD card as well.
But I still get the My Documents dir coming back to the Main Memory every reset.
After reading more on this, and seeing the risks involved, I am now rethinking whether moving the docs to the storage card is such a good idea.
Malicious Microsoft?
Given the ability of some people to easily hack our computers, the only safe way of having documents on our PCs would be to create them on removeable media while off-line and remove it before going on-line again. Does Microsoft have a vested interest in making it so hard for users to do this and so easy for people to hack its products?
It is not rocket science (or even computer science) to request insertion of a "Documents" SD card if not present. It could also optionally automatically eject the SD card when all files on it were closed.
Hi guys, just wondering what your 'workflow' is like when backing the SD card contents to the PC. Do you guys just literally copy and paste all files and create a new folder each time or do you use a program to keep the backup folder in sync with what is on the SD card?
I use Beyond Compare3 - compares 2 folders and shows the differences. Lets you only copy the files that are missing or have been updated/deleted. Saves a whole lot of time!
That program looks quite useful. Will def have a look at that. Thanks! Need something to help maintain backups. Dont really want 10s of copies of the same file in different folders hogging hd space.
Hello guys,
I have a bigger problem I hope you can help me with...
My internal storage is somehow messed up. This has effects on MTP and on some apps like the stock camera.
When accessing my internal storage by MTP from PC, only a few folders and files are visible. In contrast, if I list the content of "/mnt/sdcard" or "/storage/sdcard0" they show all my files and folders as one would expect. Also, files visible on the PC are inside this path and even when i copy a file from the PC, it is placed here.
The more serious problem is, that some apps are not able to find their files and folders inside die storage anymore. As an example, the camera app asks me to insert a sd card before taking a picture and Winamp doesn't find my music anymore.
What i tried so far:
Copying files from and to storage with Dropsync, FolderSync and ES Explorer: works without problems
I checked the rights of the files with the terminal: nothing interesting there
I cleared my whole storage (thanks to Unlock procedure) and flashed a new Custom ROM
I drank a lot of coffee because it got late
Nothing worked.
Please help, Thanks!
So thats me again.
I finally found the correct allready existing post. In this thread user dlzinc describes that one has to fix the permissions for /data/media. Good to know that i was right with permissions, bad that i didn't go through with it in the first place.
Mazzen
Hello everyone. I hope someone can help.
This is my first Android device and I am loving it.
Last night I unmounted my 64Gb microSD card and plugged it into my PC. I created a folder (at the root level) and copied all my audio files. I must say that since now I am at work I may fix it later but I named this audio folder in non-Unicode characters (Arabic)
Somehow right after I mounted the card again, the folder is not recognized (while everything else works, including a PDF book library that I copied couple of days earlier).
Instead of the "folder" icon next to this folder, it basically shows me a "white" folder-like with 0 files count.
Any idea/fix?
As I said, I will try to rename the folder to something in English and try again but I am afraid the folders inside are all in Arabic... BTW, I can read/write do everything on the phone in both English/Arabic just fine...
Many thanks for your help in advance
alharethi said:
Hello everyone. I hope someone can help.
This is my first Android device and I am loving it.
Last night I unmounted my 64Gb microSD card and plugged it into my PC. I created a folder (at the root level) and copied all my audio files. I must say that since now I am at work I may fix it later but I named this audio folder in non-Unicode characters (Arabic)
Somehow right after I mounted the card again, the folder is not recognized (while everything else works, including a PDF book library that I copied couple of days earlier).
Instead of the "folder" icon next to this folder, it basically shows me a "white" folder-like with 0 files count.
Any idea/fix?
As I said, I will try to rename the folder to something in English and try again but I am afraid the folders inside are all in Arabic... BTW, I can read/write do everything on the phone in both English/Arabic just fine...
Many thanks for your help in advance
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I have same issue, In N7100 or N7105.
Now I'm using directory bind to mount the Music in Music folder in Internal Storage path
I've the N7100.
For anyone who has my same issue, I solved the issue by renaming the folders and files to English! It works flawlessly!
How do I get a native non-English UI?
Sent from my GT-N7100
I think settings>language and input>system language ( or whatever that option is called)
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 with root access. I have some files that I cannot delete from my SD card. When moving large video files, I'll often pull the SD card out, install it into my computer, and move the files that way, rather than through the USB cable, as the transfer is much faster. The files in question, that I cannot delete, are all files that were transferred this way. Why would these files be locked in this way?
I haven't checked yet, to see if I can put the SD card back into my computer and delete them from there. I'll check tomorrow to see if that works. If not, I'll have to format my SD card in order to get rid of the files. This seems pretty strange.
Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this or have any sort of explanation for it?
Thanks.
Which file manager are you using? Make sure the file permissions are set correctly and not read only.
Windows and Linux file permissions work differently. You'll probably find you need to set file permissions to allow the files to be written or executed.
I use ES File Explorer, but I've tried others. I never had this problem with my previous tablet. I never had to set anything to give myself write access. Also, I'm able to cut, copy, paste, delete other files from the card; just not these.