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.
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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)
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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.
I have made many saves on fpse but where are these files actually saved?
I have heard it should be in the .mrc or .mcd folder but I dont have them folders
I don't know. I tried finding them myself at one time but failed. They are burried within the system somehow.
What you can do is specify the path to your own "slot1.mcd" and "slot2.mcd" files by just creating two .txt files and rename them to those names. Though you will lose the saves you have in the other save files.
But there's an option to backup all files to sdcard in the "system" meny. Try doing that and go look on the sdcard for the .mcd files and then just put them somewhere and specify the location to them.
I used the backup option, then navigated to fpsebackuo folder on the sdcard and copied the files from the memcards folder. Now my memory cards are on the sd and not taking up space on the internal memory. Same thing works for save states, but its a different subfolder.
Thanks guys I used the backup idea. Managed to get a saving I had on my ps3 onto the xperia play
Its in /data/data/ by the way
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Found it!
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I have made many saves on fpse but where are these files actually saved?
I have heard it should be in the .mrc or .mcd folder but I dont have them folders
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I found mine at the main directory in your internal memory (by default I guess) under ".fpse". You might need to use a computer since that folder was not visible by my android file managers.
Hope it helps.
I used the settings in my Note 2 to format my 32GB microsd card. when i view it in windows explorer, the only folder that has been created is the LOST.DIR. should it be creating a folder structure?
on my BlackBerry, whenever my card was formatted, the device would create the folder structure for music, videos, pictures, etc. I've already removed and reinserted the microsd card. Am I missing something?
you're missing the question and answer section
Thanks, I just checked there but still couldn't find my answer. Can't see a way to delete this thread, only edit, so if anyone is able to help out, it'd be appreciated.
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Thanks, I just checked there but still couldn't find my answer. Can't see a way to delete this thread, only edit, so if anyone is able to help out, it'd be appreciated.
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Test, take some pictures and store to sd card (change options in camera app) to see if it creates it then
crixley said:
Test, take some pictures and store to sd card (change options in camera app) to see if it creates it then
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Thanks....that worked for the camera! I tried launching the music player and video player, but no other folders are created.
Problems is, is that I have media to restore to the card but not sure if i should create the folders manually or what.
The reson i formatted it, is cause i took it straight from my Z10 to my Note 2 and wanted to clean up the folder structure. remove data, format, restore into new android folder structure. but didn't really work out
My tablet decided to unexpectedly crashed on me but thankfully I had backed up some of my lecture notes. Sadly not all of them. When I back them up I didn't use the Zip function. I just had folder sync copy the LectureNotes stored them. I've tried just copying and pasting them back into the new Lecturenotes folder but it doesn't display them on the Notebooks Board.
How can I get LectureNotes to read the older files that it created?
I'm on the Wifi only Galaxy 10.1 2014 Edition running android 4.4.2.
If you need more information feel free to ask question. I'll do my best to answer them.
@Icon000: Copying the files back into the app directory should actually do the job.
Before the hardware crash, did you use a custom app directory in LectureNotes? If so, have you set it again?
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@Icon000: Copying the files back into the app directory should actually do the job.
Before the hardware crash, did you use a custom app directory in LectureNotes? If so, have you set it again?
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I'm like 85% sure no. I did mess with a lot of the settings. I couldn't set it up again since it was pre-KitKat and it would have been on my SD card in Folders I created to be similar to the way it is set up by default.
The way I found the LN folder last time was by just creating a new notebook in the empty lecturenotes and give it an unique easy to find name like ln123456. Then just use search functionality of your filemanager to find that folder and copy your old lecturenotes files over.
@Icon000: To which location did you copy the files?
The standard app directory follows an Android standard and is Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files, starting in the root of the SD card.
acadoid said:
@Icon000: To which location did you copy the files?
The standard app directory follows an Android standard and is Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files, starting in the root of the SD card.
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@acadoid, Sorry for the delay, I've been busy. So how do I now move that the contents of that director to the SD card considering the limitation of Kitkat, where apps can modify files they create?
@Icon000: The constraints in Android 4.4 (KITKAT) apply to the external SD card, not the internal one.
On the external SD card, the path that is accessible under Android 4.4 (KITKAT) is Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files (in fact the same path as the standard app directory on the internal SD card).
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@Icon000: The constraints in Android 4.4 (KITKAT) apply to the external SD card, not the internal one.
On the external SD card, the path that is accessible under Android 4.4 (KITKAT) is Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files (in fact the same path as the standard app directory on the internal SD card).
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okay, I was trying to move it off the internal to the external so should something happen to the tablet the files aren't completely lost. I was told that the native file manager can do more than 3rd party managers as a result of these new restrictions.
@Icon000: It might be that a file manager app that shipped with the device has the permission to write everywhere on the external SD card.
Note that you can easily restore pre-KITKAT behavior of the external SD card if your device is rooted.
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@Icon000: It might be that a file manager app that shipped with the device has the permission to write everywhere on the external SD card.
Note that you can easily restore pre-KITKAT behavior of the external SD card if your device is rooted.
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@acadoid, thank you for the recommendation of rooting. At this time I am considering it.
While I have your attention have you considered adding another way to view the folder structure where a list of the structure is on the left 1/3 and on the other 2/3 have the contents of the selected folder and relevant information such as modification dates.
I ask because I have a lot of folders and its getting hard to manage them even in the ultra compact view. What do you view and relevant settings do you suggest for when you have a lor of folders and notebooks?
@Icon000: I use `ultra compact´ with `display as tree´ and `display mini-icons´ (the latter allows a distinction by cover color).
I decided to upgrade to Lollipop after holding out for awhile.... before I did though, as I knew I was going to run an RUU so I wouldn't have any problems with the OTA, I copied everything in my "storage" (all folders) to my windows laptop desktop via USB.
After upgrading, I copied it all back, making sure not to over-write anything.
What is strange is when I copied all my folders to my laptop initially, I didn't see a Download folder... which I expected to see. But after looking through the folders I had copied, I saw a folder called storage, and in that folder another called emulated, and then another called "0". In that folder I finally saw my Download folder.
I didn't think much of this at the time, however, when I look at storage from Root Explorer, I note there is a new Download folder at the "root" level of storage, but the storage/emulated/0 path is still there as well.... and following it takes me to my old Download folder....
So...to get back my original folders and contents before I upgraded to Lollipop, I have to copy over every folder in this path up 3 levels. i.e., from /storage/emulated/0/storage/emulated to /storage/emulated.
What is going on? Why is there an "0" and a "legacy" if I go up one level from /storage/emulated/??? Why did my old Download folder end up where it did?
I had this exact same thing in my mind.
Why is there such a folder ?
My phone storage was almost full and I found out this folder is taking up whole space.
I cut the storage folder and pasted it into memory card
now all my downloads go to memory card (mmc:storage/emulated/0)
+1
I have also this folder that takes a lot of internal memory space.
I experiment one thing:
I have 1 game that takes 2Gb of data and I have moved it to sdcard memory (using Android-M feature : move app from internal to sdcard )
I saw in this directory (emulated/0/ ) the 2Gb of this game. ????? So, I tryed to copy/paste this data to sdcard, in order to free internal memory space. But I loose the game's configuration.
I was thinking that moving app from internal to scard, the data of the app also move, isn't it ?
I need help to understand that ...
Nang06