[Q] Lollipop and external SD card storage (+ encryption)? - G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
so, I came across the following article:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-5-0-sd-cards/
Now, I am wondering:
How exactly is external SD card storage handled on the Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen when having upgraded to Lollipop?
Can you put all apps onto an external SD card?
And does it have to be done manually for each app? Or does it happen automatically?
And what about encryption?
Does the Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen with Lollipop have an option to encrypt the external SD card storage?
Or can you only encrypt the device storage?
It would be much appreciated if someone could elaborate on this.
PS:
And could someone please tell how much device storage is left on a Lollipop updated Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen with 8 GB of device storage?
Regards

Anyone?

No, cannot move all apps to SD card...I have not tried encrypting the storage yet
As for available space, I have 3.07gb available after installing about 30 apps and caching two radio stations in slacker.

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garyben60 said:
I have been thinking of installing the Marshmallow update but I've been very hesitant to do so because all the problems people are having. I want to ask how to deal with the micro SD card issue. If I adopt it as internal memory, how do I get media files loaded on it as it is encrypted and can't be seen by any other device. (i.e your computer?). If I adopt it as regular external memory like with lollipop, how does the internal memory cope with not being able to move apps to the external SD card?. Thanks!!
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Much people are confused about the SD card adoption on Marshmallow. When you adopt the card as internal memory on Moto G 2014 (I own LTE EU version, but it's the same on all Gs) ALL THE FILES ON IT get erased, so backup it all. You can load it from the computer after the process, because yes, the sd it's encrypted but if you connect it to the pc (directly) you can trasfer files like on all previous version of android. If you adopt as external memory nothing will change from the common use of SD in lollipop and previous.
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alex5230white said:
Much people are confused about the SD card adoption on Marshmallow. When you adopt the card as internal memory on Moto G 2014 (I own LTE EU version, but it's the same on all Gs) ALL THE FILES ON IT get erased, so backup it all. You can load it from the computer after the process, because yes, the sd it's encrypted but if you connect it to the pc (directly) you can trasfer files like on all previous version of android. If you adopt as external memory nothing will change from the common use of SD in lollipop and previous.
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Thank you!! What do you mean connect the SD directly to the PC? Not when it's in the phone? I have an SD adapter on my laptop can the computer read the SD card using the SD adapter?
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Thank you!! What do you mean connect the SD directly to the PC? Not when it's in the phone? I have an SD adapter on my laptop can the computer read the SD card using the SD adapter?
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Yes, the computer can read it with an SD card adapter.
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Yes, the computer can read it with an SD card adapter.
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. Great! Thanks for your help. Do you have Marshmallow on your phone? Have you had any problems with it?
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