On android, it seems that every application wants to store it's data in new folder on sd card root. I found bunch of folders for many of my apps.
Is this really default behavior on android? Can't i somehow trick android, so apps will save their data in let's say /sdcard/data folder instead of just /sdcard?
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Anyone knows an app for protect the data stored in the sd card?
I means something like a files/folders encrypter or an app that ask for a password to access sdcard...
I was searching in android market, but I don´t found nothing for that purpose...
While I wait to find someone who knows the answer to my other question.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764260
I thought I would ask another re: the memory. I have an 8Gb with a class 6 16Gb external. When I install apps they always put their data on the internal 8Gb. Is there any way to change this and if not what would happen if I just cut and pasted it all there?
if you cut and pasted the data from /sdcard im pretty sure your apps would run fine and re-create the data as its needed, as most of this data ie for games, is savegame data and resources.
After coding an audio recorder myself im pretty sure the location where this data is stored will be coded into most apps, well thats what i did, and most if not all apps unless they allow you to change the string variable as an option, will use the internal SD because some people might not use an external. So imo it depends on the app
Also if you have rooted your device and have root explorer you will see that infact, most of the applications data from installation is not on the sdcard at all
Also if you have rooted your device and have root explorer you will see that infact, most of the applications data from installation is not on the sdcard at all
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can anyone tell me how to move apps to sd2?
i've tried apps2sd and another market app but neither can complete the task. both alert me that some apps can be moved to sd but neither will actually do it.
is this something i should just do with esfile or something? copy and move?
also, i've been moving some music to my gtab via usb in folders. after moving to sd, i can't move the entire folder to sd2, i have to copy individual tracks. am i doing something wrong? i can't see sd2 from usb mass storage unless i'm more blind than i thought.
thanks!
Sigh, this is exactly what I was worried about when upgrading from my EVO 3D.
I noticed my new M8 has a sdcard0 and extsdcard folder. And of course, the apps and games which download hundreds of megs of data in order to run are downloading to the 24 gig internal sdcard0 mount point instead of the nearly empty 64gig extsdcard0 mountpoint. I really REALLY hate how so many Android phones seem to do this, why can't it just be partitioned as internal instead of faking a sdcard, thus making large apps install to internal with no option of installing to the actual external card?
Anyway, without rooting my phone, is there any way I can somehow set it so apps download and install their data to the actual SD card? The whole reason I didn't get the M7 was because I don't want my data to be stuck on the phone's internal memory in case anything happens, as well as to not waste internal memory space on several hundred megs or even gigs of data when I can use a large sdcard for that.
I believe u can go to manage apps and move apps to the sd card. Some may not be able to if it's not comparable but a lot of them should.
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I believe u can go to manage apps and move apps to the sd card. Some may not be able to if it's not comparable but a lot of them should.
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I tried that, it only moves the app executable to the SD card, not the hundreds of megs of additional data it downloaded. The app management screen even tells me how much of this additional data is on the internal memory and how much of it is on the SD card (it's all on internal), but moving the app doesn't move the additional data to the SD card.
One would assume that the ext sd 's bus interface would be quick enough to not bog any app which would be using it. That being the case htc has no excuse for not having interchangeable symbolic mounting points between the two sd's. Ive physcally moved some of the data from app's (dcim, and random music ) directories to the extsd, and at least it unburdens the internal sd.
The apk resource fork in these systems could be processed better in android and it's sdk, or even the runtime.
F yes it sucks.
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whenever i delete folders like movies music etc
later they keep beeing created again
anyway to stop them for beeing recreated?
There isn't a way to remove them, as they are part of Android. Even a newly inserted SD Card will have them. And yes I do find it irritating that it exists. You can, however, prevent apps from creating random folders in your storage. Technically, it's not stopping the app but it's just hiding the folders in Android/data/pkg.name for more organization. The app is called Storage Isolation available in Play Store. Requires root and zygisk/riru.