ok, so maybe I'm a little obsessive compulsive but wow
is it just me or do most applications just spit folders and data all over your sdcard?
i just uninstalled an app i found that i dont use and found two separate folders in the root of the sdcard still remaining.
looks like there were only two apps that had created/used a folder named data inside of the sdcard, seesmic and flixster
I fully agree with you all the apps just create folders on the root of the sd and when i plug it in the computer it's a mess.
Developers really need to use the folder Data, i don't care what's in the app folder but it's not nice to see them all on the root
I agree. It's called lazy programming.
I agree!
At the very least, applications should be forced to only write to a specific directory. I.E. .data, .app_data, etc. When cleaning my SD Card, it so hard to tell what's needed and what's not
I completely agree. It is a giant mess, and it's annoying scrolling through all that garbage to get to the few folders I actually use.
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?
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!
Hi,
Maybe you know the windows app Belvedere, it's an app tha organizes files and folders (moves, renames, erases...) based on certain rules. I'm looking for an app like this for android. Something that , for example, moves the photos and videos into folders based on the day they were taken. ¿Is there an app like this? If not ¿What do you recommend me to keep my files organized?
Talking about organization, each app does whatever it pleases with the sd folder so it becamos a mess. I'm little obsesive about organization, so ideally I'd like to have some special folders in the root of the sd (Music, Pictures, Downloads, Ringtones...) and keep everything else at least hidden.
¿Is there a File Explorer that allows to create something like a virtual file hierachy or just uses bookmarks or similar? Something that when I open it lets me see the "folders" (real, bookmarks or links) I menntioned before. Or maybe, since it is linux based, create the folders using softlinks...
One last doubt. I recently discovered that in order to make the sistem recognize my ringtones I have to put them in the "ringtones" folder at the sd root. I have also learnt about the .nomedia file. My question is ¿how many of this special files and folders?
That's all. Hope you can help me and thanks in advance.
Hello,
Waiting for my Z3 Compact to arrive. I can't wait!
Question for you owners out there. Did Sony add the option under storage settings like they did with the Z2 to move apps to SD?
Fingers crossed!
Thanks in advance!
Would like to know myself. Seems like a boneheaded move if it's not an available feature by default. I mean, I know eventually root will allow us to achieve apps2sd even if it weren't, but it would be such an Apple move if this were a restriction.
I could only see 'Transfer data to SD card'
Photos
Videos
Music
no apps or any other options yet.
App2SD is not present and I'd predict that it'll also not come. I'd already be happy if we could get write access to the SD. Thank you Google... no, I don't want to use your Cloud "services".
Can you set pictures, videos and Music to get stored on the SDcard by default? Setting the location by default would make things much easier. Not too worried about 16gb for apps, always was fine for my N4 with everything else as well. Just needed to clean up storage every once in awhile.
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Anyone found a solution to this, running low on internal storage!
Luckily Google will bring back Apps2SD in Lollipop. Now we just have to wait, till Sony releases a LP rom...
DerDave said:
Luckily Google will bring back Apps2SD in Lollipop. Now we just have to wait, till Sony releases a LP rom...
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Where did you read this?
Google only said:
Google said:
Hey all, in KitKat we introduced APIs that let apps read/write file in app-specific directories on secondary storage devices, such as SD cards.
We heard loud and clear that developers wanted richer access beyond these directories, so in Lollipop we added the new ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE intent. Apps can launch this intent to pick and return a directory from any supported DocumentProvider, including any of the shared storage supported by the device. Apps can then create, update, and delete files and directories anywhere under the picked tree without any additional user interaction. Just like the other document intents, apps can persist this access across reboots.
This gives apps broad, powerful access to manage files while still involving the user in the initial selection process. Users may choose to give your app access to a narrow directory like "My Vacation Photos," or they could pick the top-level of an entire SD card; the choice is theirs.
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FSRBIKER said:
Can you set pictures, videos and Music to get stored on the SDcard by default? Setting the location by default would make things much easier. Not too worried about 16gb for apps, always was fine for my N4 with everything else as well. Just needed to clean up storage every once in awhile.
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you can set the default image/video location from the camera settings, read somewhere that you can do the same with music via the play music app.
Okay probably got that wrong, but on the other hand effectively it's the solution to the problem. If the apps can easily store their biggest part of data on the SD, the internal memory will be save.