I won a Tab 3 7.0 at a company convention. I downloaded a couple digital copies before I got a 64GB external SD card. Is there a way to move them from the internal to the external SD card so that I have more room on my internal drive for apps? I've tried to locate the files to copy them to a different storage location, but I can't find the files.
In the app drawer you'll find a file named My Files. Open it and go to the Download folder where you should find the files for which you're looking. Select the files (check boxes) and either Cut or Copy them. May have to select Done at this point - can't recall. Now go to the place to which you want to move them and Paste.
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Alright, so youve got plenty of random files and stuff stuck on your SD card, that just take up memory. What stuff you do remove? If im rooted do i need all of those root files that i used to root my phone?
Whats the best way to clean it up?
Once your rooted you do not need any files on your sd card related to rooting, you can remove those, what i did was copy the entire contents of my sd card to my computer, then formated my sd card from the phone then only transfered back files I was using or needed for certain apps to function. Cleaned it up and gained valuable storage space.
oh, sweet. thanks for your repsonse. how did you go about copying the files to your computer? like did you just copy and paste the files to...wherE?
PatrickHuey said:
oh, sweet. thanks for your repsonse. how did you go about copying the files to your computer? like did you just copy and paste the files to...wherE?
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Just mount your phone as an external storage device, it will come up under your "My Computer" on your computer as another drive, then just create a new folder on your computer somewhere, then open the phones drive up just copy and paste the files from your phone to the folder on your computer. Remember to keep the file you removed, just in case you forget to move something back that you needed you can always go back into the file and move it back to the phone.
Just FYI..the folder "clockworkmod" in ur sd card contains your recovery and all ur nandroid backups..you might wanna keep that one onboard..
So, I've been noticing weirdly-named, zero-byte files on my external sdcard lately. These are appearing in the root of the external card and the /Dropbox folder that contains a couple folders I sync with Dropbox via Dropsync. Most of these files appear to be named "µ". Dozens of them in each directory. Most of them show up with that same name. A few are other unprintable and weird characters.
Any thoughts?
GinoAMelone said:
So, I've been noticing weirdly-named, zero-byte files on my external sdcard lately. These are appearing in the root of the external card and the /Dropbox folder that contains a couple folders I sync with Dropbox via Dropsync. Most of these files appear to be named "µ". Dozens of them in each directory. Most of them show up with that same name. A few are other unprintable and weird characters.
Any thoughts?
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Possible malware? I would backup both sd cards to your PC then format them. After that only put the files back in that you know you need, and the rest will be there if you need them. Remove all those odd files before doing anything though.
You could also try the sd maid app to clean it up.
Someone else posted about this a few weeks ago. I think the extsd was going bad.
The problem was on my 16gb card.
I was trying (again) to get my 32gb/class 10 working with my SGSIII. It still won't work reliably. So, I reformatted the 16gb and copied everything back. We'll see if these files return.
Thanks for the advise.
Hi,
I have a bada phone and on the sd card there was many pictures, but when I pull out the card and put it on my android phone the images desappeared. When I put the card in my pc it says me that the used space is 580, but when i select all the folder the space of them is inly 180mb. The different of 400mb is my pictures but i can't find it in the sd card.Please if someone have a solution to help me.
Thank You
scarymovie said:
Hi,
I have a bada phone and on the sd card there was many pictures, but when I pull out the card and put it on my android phone the images desappeared. When I put the card in my pc it says me that the used space is 580, but when i select all the folder the space of them is inly 180mb. The different of 400mb is my pictures but i can't find it in the sd card.Please if someone have a solution to help me.
Thank You
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may be virus in you memory card, but is simple.
just open you memory card, create any file .rar(mouse right>new>winRAR archive)
after open the file, after click in arrow(up one level) and find you files, after find, drag to your pc.
after drag all files format the memory card and back all files.
sorry my english
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The trick with Winrar didn't help( in internet explorer I've made to see all the files - system and so ), I wonder if have some progrem that can helpme to see the images.
my english is bad as yours
I did something stupid. I've had my G3 only 2-3 weeks so am not familiar with LG's system. Browsing the internal SD card on Windows (MTP) the internal storage mounting point 0/storage/emulated is actually displayed as a folder on the internal SD: This PC\G3\Internal storage\storage\emulated.
(I confused this folder with a sub-folder I had created myself and coincidentally called the same name.) The folder in Windows shows as empty. I deleted it.
The result: it deletes your entire internal and external SD cards.
I was using stock V20H. (Probably AOSP roms use different mount points ??)
I can't find any thread mentioning this, so I'm posting as a warning.
SimboXXX said:
I did something stupid. I've had my G3 only 2-3 weeks so am not familiar with LG's system. Browsing the internal SD card on Windows (MTP) the internal storage mounting point 0/storage/emulated is actually displayed as a folder on the internal SD: This PC\G3\Internal storage\storage\emulated.
(I confused this folder with a sub-folder I had created myself and coincidentally called the same name.) The folder in Windows shows as empty. I deleted it.
The result: it deletes your entire internal and external SD cards.
I was using stock V20H. (Probably AOSP roms use different mount points ??)
I can't find any thread mentioning this, so I'm posting as a warning.
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any way to recover any of the files from it? i need my screenshot folder specifically
I didn't bother trying, but i did find some software that will retrieve lost data (i didn't bookmark it but should be easy to search). Important thing is don't save anything on the sd now because it may overwrite the existing data.
After boot I see this entry under my root directory:
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2015-10-16 22:48 sdcard -> /storage/emulated/legacy
I do not understand it very well but it seems the system emulates an SD card using its own memory. Then many applications use this area to save files. The thing is that I have a real external SD Card that I would like all the downloads, music, temp files, documents, everything really to go there.
I have tried to remove the symbolic link 'sdcard' and to make it point to my sd card but I cannot remove it not even as root, read only system, I probably need to use chmod first not sure.
Has anyone done this and know the solution?
Many thanks
The internal storage is emulated as an sdcard.
You can't delete the sym links as they are created upon each boot.
As long as you are rooted you can use your external sd card for whatever you want.
Just point your apps to the right location.
ashyx said:
The internal storage is emulated as an sdcard.
You can't delete the sym links as they are created upon each boot.
As long as you are rooted you can use your external sd card for whatever you want.
Just point your apps to the right location.
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Thank you but I cannot ask all applications to point to the external card. Many applications do not have this setting, either through the Applications Manager or through their own settings. Trying to find files then gets more confusing and every so often I must copy files manually so as to keep them in one place.
Is there perhaps an application that will also run at boot and point to the external card before any other applications start? That might be a good solution?
Zilliman said:
Thank you but I cannot ask all applications to point to the external card. Many applications do not have this setting, either through the Applications Manager or through their own settings. Trying to find files then gets more confusing and every so often I must copy files manually so as to keep them in one place.
Is there perhaps an application that will also run at boot and point to the external card before any other applications start? That might be a good solution?
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I have a galaxy tab s and am using Folder Mount and so far (after a few patches the program itself makes with permision) it is working fine for using data files on the storage card.