I connected my phone to my computer and was looking at the Folders in Windows Explorer. Using Windows 7.
Under Removable Disk it showed 15 folders. Are these in internal storage or on my SD card? How can I tell where something is stored? How can I just look at one location?
Thanks, cb
That would be the contents of your sd card.
Look around, just don't delete anything unless you know for sure it's not something you want to keep, such as old photos, music etc.
Most of the folders are pretty self explanatory. Such as Dcim/camera, if you look here you will find the pictures that are stored on the sc card.
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Just switched over from an Evo 3D and swapped my old 32gb sd card. Opening the native file manager, or Astro, or es file manager have all come up empty when exploring the sd card. Weird thing is that my pictures still show up in the gallery as well as all my music in the music app but not in any file managers.
Another strange issue is that I am unable to download anything from the browser, k don't know if this is related to the sd card so I am hoping to hear if anyone figured out how to get around this. Also, I am unable to mount USB dried when plugged into the computer. I appreciate any help you guys can provide.
Try exploring external_sd. SD is the phones storage and not the card you put in.
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I am trying to get used to this as well! I think the folder named "sdcard" should ACTUALLY be the sdcard!
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Does this mean done apps that utilize the sd card will have issues or even not work at all?
same question here...i have a sub dir called /sdcard/external_sd But if you want an app to use the SD card it will use /sdcard, not the external_sd...so is it a total waste to put a microsd card into this phone, since I will only be able to utilize the space if i manually copy **** to that directory????
If you move an app to the "SD card" in the manage applications it will move it to the actual SD card. It won't put it on the internal storage.
Just got my GS2 today and I must say this is the easiest phone I have rooted to date! I have been working my way around the OS and found that apps are not seeing my files on my External SD Card. Is there a way to sort of sync these? I guess I dont mean sync, but have apps search both internal and external storage for files? Take beautiful widgets, I have a ton of images on the ex sd card. When I launch the app to apply one of those images it looks in phone storage and gives no option to search the ex sd card.
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cordell12 said:
Just got my GS2 today and I must say this is the easiest phone I have rooted to date! I have been working my way around the OS and found that apps are not seeing my files on my External SD Card. Is there a way to sort of sync these? I guess I dont mean sync, but have apps search both internal and external storage for files? Take beautiful widgets, I have a ton of images on the ex sd card. When I launch the app to apply one of those images it looks in phone storage and gives no option to search the ex sd card.
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easiest thing would to move everything to the internal sd card. i dont like how the phone sees SD card (internal) then from there i have to navigate to the folder called 'external sd' to look at my microSD files.
tool2269 said:
easiest thing would to move everything to the internal sd card. i dont like how the phone sees SD card (internal) then from there i have to navigate to the folder called 'external sd' to look at my microSD files.
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Exactly, but what good is it to have an external card if the apps dont use it? If I have to move everything to the internal card, what can I put on the external card and be able to use/access? None of my apps recognize the external card, lol.
i use my external sdcard for music & movie business and use the internal for everything else. i sync back & forth between pc & cell a lot so having a CLEAN (aka, none of those extra android folders) sdcard makes browsing and syncing much easier, cleaner, and organized. also, without that android bloat i can tell exactly how much goodies i have just by looking at the size of external sdcard
ps: external sdcard is more or less just a subdir on the internal sdcard.... its /sdcard/external_sd if i remember correctly.
i just slap my movie files onto thte internal sd since i delete them afterwards... didnt realize 16 gb is a lot of space lol
I removed some movies from the internal memory but when i go to storage, the available free space is the same as when the movies where there. I held the movie file down and selected delete when the pop up menu came up.
Any suggestions to clear the inetrnal memory or do i need to format the usb storage which will delete everything from internal memory?
Thanks,
Ian B
Hey guys not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I have about 4 gigs on my sd card and my phone wont show it in any file manager it says all the folders are empty. I formatted the card and transferred everything back on and its still doing the same thing. Even tried transferring it to the internal memory and it shows the folders but again they are empty when I know the files are there. Any suggestions?
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Hey guys not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I have about 4 gigs on my sd card and my phone wont show it in any file manager it says all the folders are empty. I formatted the card and transferred everything back on and its still doing the same thing. Even tried transferring it to the internal memory and it shows the folders but again they are empty when I know the files are there. Any suggestions?
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is it mounted? when you goto settings/storage is sd card mounted? can you mount to pc? when you mount to pc and open sd is your stuff in there? maybe the android.secure file was erased! if so then try taking a picture and saving to sd then see if you can find it trhu gallery
yes it is mounted and it lets me mount to the computer and transfer things. In storage it shows I have it half full but in a file manager it shows only 33 mb used. When I plug it into the computer all the files are there. I took a picture and saved it to the sd and it showed up in the gallery.
A weird one. I have looked around and can't see anything similar.
I have 10gb music on external sd. If I use FX file manager it reports them (Samsung 32gb class 10)
10gb
71 folders
1139 files.
PowerAmp sees them all and plays them all - no problem. There is a mixture of MP3 and FLAC.
Then I plug the phone into the laptop.
If I look at the properties of the music folder (Ext SD) where they are all stored windows reports
1.52gb
25 folders
68 files.
If I then click on one of the albums - the folder is completely empty.
So I immediately think SD corruption. Bit of a bummer as it is a brand new card.
But then I take the sd card out, pop it into an sd adaptor and plug into card slot on the same laptop
Windows now decides to completely agree with FX file manager??????
If I try to copy one of the folders from the phone to the desktop it just copies an 'empty' folder.
Yet if I delete it on the phone (through windows) it removes the album and amends the storage available.
Anyone?
If recommend formatting the sd card and copying it over again.
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grentuu said:
A weird one. I have looked around and can't see anything similar.
I have 10gb music on external sd. If I use FX file manager it reports them (Samsung 32gb class 10)
10gb
71 folders
1139 files.
PowerAmp sees them all and plays them all - no problem. There is a mixture of MP3 and FLAC.
Then I plug the phone into the laptop.
If I look at the properties of the music folder (Ext SD) where they are all stored windows reports
1.52gb
25 folders
68 files.
If I then click on one of the albums - the folder is completely empty.
So I immediately think SD corruption. Bit of a bummer as it is a brand new card.
But then I take the sd card out, pop it into an sd adaptor and plug into card slot on the same laptop
Windows now decides to completely agree with FX file manager??????
If I try to copy one of the folders from the phone to the desktop it just copies an 'empty' folder.
Yet if I delete it on the phone (through windows) it removes the album and amends the storage available.
Anyone?
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Best idea to avoid any issues is to insert SD card to phone, format, then transfer files. Let the phone decide what format it likes. FAT, FAT32, etc....
Brava27 said:
Best idea to avoid any issues is to insert SD card to phone, format, then transfer files. Let the phone decide what format it likes. FAT, FAT32, etc....
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I always do. The card was delivered and went straight into the phone.
In the end I had to format and recopy and for the moment all seems good.
When you check out an app's info, there is an option to "Move to SD card". When I do this, I see that the available internal storage space really does free up. I tried finding the app data in the external sd, but no new directories are made and the size of the "Android" folder in the external sd remains at 32 bytes. So, where is the app data in the external sd?
I don't mean to resurrect an old thread, but I felt compelled to answer this, since this issue bugged me for hours. I'll just leave it here in case anyone else stumbles on to this.
If you are able to move apps to the SD card in G3, android v.4.4 Kitkat, whether by default, or by applying the SD Fix ("media_rw"...), then doing so will only move certain files to your SD (the .apk, I think), but not inside the /external_SD/Android/data folder. The files will instead be moved to the /.android_secure folder, which is hidden and cannot be viewed using a file browser in Android, even with root (tried ES Explorer). You can view this folder if you insert the SD directly to your PC via a card slot. The files moved will have the .asec extension.
In order to move the actual files from the data or obb folder, and save space, one would have to use an app such as FolderMount, although I haven't tried this myself.