I've only had this phone a few days, so my brief search may have missed this:
I am unable to move/copy/delete files on my external card (/mnt/sdcard/external_sd). The default "My Files" app allowed me to move a couple of files, but not others. But my favorites, "ES File Explorer" and "Root Explorer" seem completely unable to do anything but read files. How can this be?
If it matters, I'm rooted.
It u are cutting and pasting or moving files files to and from external to internal, mine doesn't work either. Move within the same or copying files however seems to work.
Can u delete?
I can delete some small files. But copy/paste from within external just fragged an entire folder...
Okay, here's a guess - I used this card on my Atrix that just died, which ran CM7 with ext4 formatting kernels. Should I just reformat the whole thing?
do a low level format. Use a micro sd - sd adapter and then use this free program:
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
afterwards you will have to again format it to fat32 in Windows.
It does sound like the sd card is corrupt
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I just got this external SD card installed, but I can't figure out how to move media files off my internal onto my external within the phone (Astro).
I saw the external SD folder under the SD card, but I couldn't move files to it within the phone. I ultimately plugged in Mass Storage and I saw two different external drives and I moved it that way. That took a long time to move 7 gbs.
Any other way to do it?
Use my files that is right there in apps built in long press on the file or folder you want. There are other apps on the market that work but that is there.
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shadow65781 said:
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Or move.
From a phone
Astro doesn't allow me to move them from internal to external either. Never has. I just use root explorer or file manager. I assume its something to do with permissions but I never cared enough to look into it.
I'm having a hard time making sense of the file system. I have directories which contain copies of the same pictures, music and app data. How do I tell what needs to be kept for app functionality and which is the copy?
There's an /external_sd/ directory that contains much of the same data as /sdcard/. They both point to -> sdcard0 so I'm guessing this is just some sort of junction? I also have a directory called /storage/ which contains the sub-directories /sdcard0/ and /sdcard1/
I'm trying to clear up space and just organize things better since I just switched to this phone recently and took my sd card with me.
sdcard0 is your internal SD, and sdcard1 is your external.
My suggest would be to plug your phone into your computer, then pull everything off of the external SD and format the external using your PC. Unplug the phone from the computer, then plug it back in. The directories that auto-generate are the ones your system needs. Go through the old card folders and move the ones you want back on. ezmode
Google blocks the Write ability for third party apps on Android 4.4 KitKat update for uncertain reason. File managers can’t access to SD card at all and lost the ability to manage external storage completely.
However people always find a way to solve problem, although the solution may not be super perfectly.
I recently update File Expert and find it restored the ability to manage external SD card.
Download app from Google Play and open to start. I notice my external SD Card is shown under Folder Tab.External SD Card is accessible and writable again in File Expert. Click to enter, choose a file and try all basic file operations, create, copy, cut, paste, rename, delete, edit and zip file within external SD card. File Expert completes all without any error.
You can even explore more available actions for External SD Card in File Expert. Like trying move a file from internal storage to SD card, sharing files on external sdcard with FTP, Web PC Suite it will be done perfectly, without any error.
What file manager do you use right now? Or is there any file manager can do more?
I'm having a big issue getting the Android File Manager to grant permissions to write to the SDcard for 3rd party apps. In order to grant permission. One must select the external storage. Doing so will enable to app to modify the contents of that storage. However, my phone does not detect the external storage as seen below ..
(Check attached file)
My situation : I have TTorrent's download directory to my MicroSd -- so as to not waste internal storage. I downloaded a .rar file and it saved to the sd card. I want unpack that file, but I must grant ES File Manager permission to do so. It prompts me of what I need to do. I have the 'Show SD Card' toggled on, and yet my external storage doesn't show.
I have formatted my card using Android's format system.
I have formatted using Windows in both NFTS (Wasn't supported) and exFat.
I have tried mounting and unmounting and restarting the phone.
Yet to no avail ...
This is not an issue with ES File Manager, as I have used QuickPic to attempt to delete pictures from the MicroSD, It asks for permission, and again I cant grant it, because external storage doesn't show even though it is mounted.
What do I do ?
Update:
Apologies, there was another thread on this topic. I got it to work thanks to this thread ! >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735
SDcard just needs to be formatted to exFAT and the external storage will show for 3rd party apps. At the unfortunate sacrifice of 4Gb file limit sizes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61081028&postcount=16
You mean it needs to be formatted to fat32 correct? That was the solution posted here in the alcatel forums, and it is what you're linking to in your post.. just don't want any newbies getting confused
Hello,
I'd like to create a shortcut or link inside the internal memory folder to point to the external SD card. (Like a shortcut in Windows Explorer.) If I have to use symbolic link I will but I'm afraid this would mess up some apps that scan the internal memory (send it into a circular loop.) I am trying to access the SD card quickly from within the internal disk, when any app shows me that folder. (Basically some apps like CameraMX are STILL failing to show the SD card, even with Root.)
Can anyone help me create the shortcut or link? My mount point for SD is: root/mnt/media_rw/6664-6330. My filesystem is NTFS.
I have: Root Explorer, Solid Explorer, MiX, Terminal.
I tried searching google and XDA but it's hard to eliminate threads talking about the homescreen or adoptable storage. Sorry if this has already been discussed.