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What's on the SD card?

Silly question perhaps, but like a lot of people I suspect I am new to a smart phone and to android.
When I connect the Desire to my PC and mount as an external drive, I can see all the folders. But which folders are on the SD Card - eg in which do I put new music etc into? I see Mp3 and Media. Do I have to create folders on the card (in media?) called Video, Documents etc? Does it matter what I call them? And while I am at it, are the photos stored on the SD Card by default?
I'm partly muddled because the phone came with music samples on already - but I don't know if this is on the card already (odd?) or elsewhere in the phone.
I don't have a micro SD reader to check independently.
Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else.

al89nut said:
Silly question perhaps, but like a lot of people I suspect I am new to a smart phone and to android.
When I connect the Desire to my PC and mount as an external drive, I can see all the folders. But which folders are on the SD Card - eg in which do I put new music etc into? I see Mp3 and Media. Do I have to create folders on the card (in media?) called Video, Documents etc? Does it matter what I call them? And while I am at it, are the photos stored on the SD Card by default?
I'm partly muddled because the phone came with music samples on already - but I don't know if this is on the card already (odd?) or elsewhere in the phone.
I don't have a micro SD reader to check independently.
Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else.
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Just create a Music folder in the root of your SD card and create folders within that directory.
e.g. Storage Card\Music\Chris Brown\[the mp3 file]
Picture and Video files should be placed in the DCIM directory, for example, to store video files, create a new folder called DCIM, and then create another folder within that called 100MEDIA, and place picture files and video files within that.
The structure will be Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA\[the picture file] for pictures, and Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA\[the video file] for videos.

Or you can just stick a folder on the root called 'photos' and this will be picked up fine...

EddyOS said:
Or you can just stick a folder on the root called 'photos' and this will be picked up fine...
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This.
It really doesn't matter where you put the files, as the phone will detect the file formats automatically, and place them in their corrisponding places (ie. Photos and video will go to the Photos app, Music will go in the Music app).

Having said that, mine didn't pick things up first time - had to format the card in the Desire but now all works fine

Thanks.
But how do I navigate to the SD Card to find the root from the set of folders that comes up when I plug in the phone? None of them say SD card.
I get a removable drive (G) and then a set of folders beginning Lost Dir ending Bookmarks. Among them is Media, Music, Android and things like Rosiescroll (?), plus junk like HTC news which I guess I can delete. So are Media and Music on the SD Card? But not Android?
Ah! Or are ALL of these on the SD Card? I can only see the SD card and nothing of the phone system at all itself? So do I need rosiescroll, svox, blueFTPThumbnails?

al89nut said:
Thanks.
But how do I navigate to the SD Card to find the root from the set of folders that comes up when I plug in the phone? None of them say SD card.
I get a removable drive (G) and then a set of folders beginning Lost Dir ending Bookmarks. Among them is Media, Music, Android and things like Rosiescroll (?), plus junk like HTC news which I guess I can delete. So are Media and Music on the SD Card? But not Android?
Ah! Or are ALL of these on the SD Card? I can only see the SD card and nothing of the phone system at all itself? So do I need rosiescroll, svox, blueFTPThumbnails?
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The Storage Card is root
e.g. Storage Card (root)\Music\...

That removable disk is the SD card, the Android OS and anything that is on the device by default is on the phones internal memory, which cannot be accessed yet (I guess that will all change once those clever devs manage to root the thing). I'm not too sure about apps you may have installed yourself, I think they get installed to the internal memory as well.

[Q] Storage card erased!

So I have a message that the storage card is empty or there is an unsupported file, and it asks if I want to format.
When I go into the gallery, the "camera" album no longer exists.
If I use Astro file manager, I can browse to several folders with files (but not my camera album). My camera was set save on the sd card and I previously had a bunch of pictures on there.
Now the camera does not even give me an option to save to storage card. It's just set to internal with no option to change that. It's like the camera doesn't recognize the sd card, even though Astro sees it (doesn't find any of the pictures taken with this device, but shows everything else).
This is the T-Mobile GS4 with the stock ROM.
I did recently reset the camera permissions (and all other permissions) in Opera Classic, do you think that might have something to do with it?
Anyone have any experience with this?
This might be my excuse to go get the note 3.

Don't format it. Try unmounting and re-mounting it. I got that message a few times on my s4 and there was never a problem with the card. Every time I removed it from my phone and put it into my computer, the files were still there safe and sound. The S4 is very touchy with certain SD card brands, but then again I even have SD problems with samsung cards when i was on the stock ROM. Ever since I went to CM, I've never had external storage issues.

Agreed, I had a Samsung card and a sandisk and have had a few scares. Take it out and put it back in, its all still there. Unless you really do have a bad sd card.. Its possible.

I can't access my files on my SD card after marshmallow update?

have a AT&T galaxy note 4 which recently updated to 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
My phone reads that the SD card is in there, and all the file directories are there but when I try to open or view them it'll tell me I can't open/view the file. My music player still reads all the music just can't play them, ("could not play this track") or my gallery still has all the photos but can't display them
The phone is not rooted but is encrypted along with the SD card. I tried decrypting it but it didn't do anything, along with taking out the SD card, cleaning it, ect.
It seems though I can add data to the card and it will save new data to the card.
What can I do to fix or recover my data? thanks.

I think the path of the sdcard changed in MM update, which is why apps that cached that location (i.e. Solid Explorer) are having trouble with finding it. I think the old path was something like ext-sdcard, and now the new path is the name of the device. Have you tried copying the data off and then reformatting it and re-adding the data again?

Photo recovery

Hi! I have htc 10 with 128 gb sd card formatted as internal memory. I was transferring a photo folder from phone to laptop using USB cable and USB connection in media transfer mode. The folder seemed to be transferring alright but the pasted folder in laptop is empty. Since I didn't understand photo sync in Google photos I don't have any backup...desperately seeking to restore that folder. Need all the help

I'd avoid using the SD as internal, sounds great in principle but can cause issues if there's an interrupt..
For apps I'd use folder mount, needs root but it's simple to use and doesn't affect internal memory.
In regards to the images, did you cut the images? Copy or simply drag them, a drag would be a copy. So the original should have remained. If you cut them then they'll have been in limbo and will then be marked for deletion.
In future always use copy instead.
If the photos are no longer in the phones memory then they'll have been marked for deletion, a data recovery app on Windows and or your mobile may help but not sure.. Have had a lot of luck on SD cards when plugged into Windows but never scanned a phone as it's a live OS and I imagine it would need complete read access.
If the photos were on the SD card and are no longer visible, connect the SD card up to your computer because if they're marked for deletion and the OS decides to use those clusters, it'll be overwritten which will make it harder for recovery.

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apps from market not working for me, but Recuva has worked hundred times for me.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
regards
starbase64

Lost photos after inserting sd card and allowing Z2 to move media to it

The title pretty much tells the story. I let my Z2 attempt to move photos/videos to the sd card and I think it froze, because the notification couldnt be selected. At that time I checked and my photos were gone from both internal storage and sd card. Yes I'm dumb and wasnt backing up photos to google. My thinking was I take a lot of stupid pics and I delete 80% of them and didnt want to have to clear them out of google photos also. Going forward I'll definitely back up my photos.
So I installed the app DiskDigger but it cant do a full scan without root access.
Is it possible to root without wiping the internal storage so I can do a full scan?

Usb or PC card reader and recovery software cant remember the name of the one I used, have you not got them backed up to Google photos.