Hi all,
At one point I transferred a pic from my dropbox to my sd card. I have long removed the file but in gallery it shows the pic as a 0kb file and I can set it as wallpaper but there is no option to delete it and the info doesn't locate it anywhere on the sd. I've used root explorer.. show hidden files on my mac, I just can't seem to locate whatever remains, how do I find and get rid fo it without having to format my sd section of my Nexus S?
cheers in advance!
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Hi,
I have a 32gb micro sd card which has some video files on it from my in car camera, i use the tablt to viw the files back while on the road and need to delete the files when the card gets too full, i am unable to delete the files from my transformer, just get a permission denied error, i check the file information and it has -R- permissions. i put the micro sd cardinto my galaxy s2 and i am able to delete the files no problem.
Is there something i missing here? is there something i need to turn on to be able to delete these files on the transformer? the directory the files are in isnt write protected, i can create new files and folders, i just cant delete these video files for some reason.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
jldr said:
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
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The storage isn't extended, it's two separate file spaces. Your internal memory is reported as an internal SD card (sdcard0) and your SD Card is reported as an external SD (sdcard1)
jldr said:
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
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If you download the Motorola USB Device Manager then in my computer your device will be recognised with internal and external storage available, all folders under these will be clearly visable and you shouldn't have any issues transferring data between the two.
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I have that manager and it works well, but I would like the folder "sdcard" in the home to link me to the sdcard1 and not sdcard0. Right now the "symlink" in root browser points there. Anyway to change that?
so i took out my memory card and put it in a new card reader, the card reader did something funny and all files & folders disappeared and there was just one 0kb file named USB&somegarbage. I put the card back in the phone and it surely created the DCIM folders again etc.
I then connected it to icare data recovery and i am able to see that all the files are still there with most of them not corrupted but the folder names are gone,I wondering if there is a way for me to recover the original file structure back? any one?
Thanks in advance.
bilaliz said:
so i took out my memory card and put it in a new card reader, the card reader did something funny and all files & folders disappeared and there was just one 0kb file named USB&somegarbage. I put the card back in the phone and it surely created the DCIM folders again etc.
I then connected it to icare data recovery and i am able to see that all the files are still there with most of them not corrupted but the folder names are gone,I wondering if there is a way for me to recover the original file structure back? any one?
Thanks in advance.
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In my opinion, I would just recover everything and just format that card. When you reinsert the card, the phone should restore default folders back and just place your data in the respective folders. I don't think there is anything you really need to add new folders for, other than the default unless you had a specific folder arrangement for photos or something like that.
Format the card to NTFS not FAT.
Do it either on your PC or Mac.
But you must install a NTFS app on the android, otherwise the device will not recognise the card.
You can format the card to NTFS using the app too.
The app will auto mount the card when the device is turned on.
I've found this method more stable than having the card in FAT mode.
I'm surprised Samsung haven't sorted this out yet!
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Would appreciate instructions on how to move photos taken with the camera and stored in the phone storage to the SD card. The stock file manager doesn't seem to have a move option.
Thanks for any help.
catapp said:
Would appreciate instructions on how to move photos taken with the camera and stored in the phone storage to the SD card. The stock file manager doesn't seem to have a move option.
Thanks for any help.
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I just plug the phone into my laptop - and then move files between internal storage and the SD card ( and the laptop disk as well , if needed ) . That is the easiest way to do it. Another way is to use a File Explorer app that can write to the micro SD card - like ES File Explorer
catapp said:
Would appreciate instructions on how to move photos taken with the camera and stored in the phone storage to the SD card. The stock file manager doesn't seem to have a move option.
Thanks for any help.
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Use the file manager that comes with the idol, it's what I've been using to transfer files to my sd and it works flawlessly in that regard. I wish solid explorer worked for this.
3dupunk said:
Use the file manager that comes with the idol, it's what I've been using to transfer files to my sd and it works flawlessly in that regard. I wish solid explorer worked for this.
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How? I couldn't find an option to move files (camera pics) in the stock file manager.
catapp said:
How? I couldn't find an option to move files (camera pics) in the stock file manager.
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Go to the picture folder or any folder, long press on the file/folder you want to cut/copy and hit the menu button (the 3 dots) in the top right hand corner. There you choose to cut or copy, after you have chosen your option there is another menu on the left hand side (3 lines). Select the sd card and you can paste in the folder of your choice by hitting the menu on the right side and selecting paste.....voila!
Hopes this helps.
OK - I did what you instructed and it sort of seems to have worked. First I selected the folder and said copy. Then selected the SD card folder and said paste. The pics are there. Then I deleted them from phone storage.
However, now I don't see them in Quickpics. They are there in Gallery .
Prior to installing an external memory card I had no bother, exporting small videos from my drop box to a file located in internal memory
I have now installed an external memory card and relocated my video files there. Now when I export a video from my dropbox box to a file called say Tango. I now find that a duplicate file called Tango is created inside the origional one and the video is exported to here? Why should this be and how can I correct it.
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If I then just manually move the video into the correct file how do I delete the extra empty file
I can delete the contents no bother but when I select an empty file and try to delete it nothing happens?
Thanks for any help