Hi everyone,
I'm looking to remove some of my old excess folders off my SD Card and I was wondering if anyone knew what the stock folders are I should be keeping or if it's ok to wipe the SD card? Wasn't really sure if it was ok or not to do so and thought I should ask..
Thanks!
You can wipe the SD-card within android. Its safe and wont make the card unusable or anything like that.
Just remember to save the stuff you want to keep before formatting it
Thanks for the info. I wasn't so sure as I came from a HTC Desire and ended up using ROM's that dumped half the system onto the SD card so was a bit wary with that.. :S
CephiroX said:
Thanks for the info. I wasn't so sure as I came from a HTC Desire and ended up using ROM's that dumped half the system onto the SD card so was a bit wary with that.. :S
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I think any apps that is installed to sd will be deleted so make sure none are.
How?
How can I wipe the card?
I often tried some apps, and now I installed CM so it would be great to have an "empty" SD.
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
Piccolo1986 said:
How can I wipe the card?
I often tried some apps, and now I installed CM so it would be great to have an "empty" SD.
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Setting/storage and you should see it there.
Thanks
that was a good hint.
And what about a tool?
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that was a good hint.
And what about a tool?
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Em tool to do what?
I forgot to say
Like I said in my last post:
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Like I said in my last post:
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Think adb can do that but why would you need to know that?
i would make a back up of your sdcard to your pc before doing anything
Backup not the best solution...
especially when you "on the road". Sometimes when I'm outside (waiting for the bus or so) I've time to look around in the play store. Screenshots are nice, but it's always better when you try an app on your own.
But once installed you see "oh that one is crap" you want to uninstall it, but the folders that has been created are still there. So it would be nice if there would be a app that watches for the changings during installation and you are able to delete all the folders and files of the crappy app.
If you delete data before uninstalling the app everything should disappear.
Actually, I think its only if you uninstall through play store the data is kept.
TitaniumBackup will remove all of it when using it to uninstall stuff.
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Alright guys.
My SD Card seems to be full of folders that I have no clue what they're for or why they've been created. Im just about to install a fresh ROM to my phone & was wondering can I just go ahead of format my SD card (after I've backed up my photos etc.) and everything will be as good as new?
Cheers
stanny2k said:
Alright guys.
My SD Card seems to be full of folders that I have no clue what they're for or why they've been created. Im just about to install a fresh ROM to my phone & was wondering can I just go ahead of format my SD card (after I've backed up my photos etc.) and everything will be as good as new?
Cheers
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.android_secure
.data
.dmp
.fdhttpd
Those kind of folders?
Lots of programs save their settings and data on the card, so when you load a new ROM, are you planning to restore settings and data from somewhere or start completely from scratch?
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.android_secure
.data
.dmp
.fdhttpd
Those kind of folders?
Lots of programs save their settings and data on the card, so when you load a new ROM, are you planning to restore settings and data from somewhere or start completely from scratch?
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Nah, I know those folders are standard, Im talking about things like:
MXBROWSER
PDV_LOG
QUICK START GUIDE
SAFETY GUIDE
SPEEDSOFTWARE
TUNNYBROWSER
TAPATALKXDAPRE_DOWNLOAD
I appreciate all these things are folders created by App's I've installed at some point throughout the life of my phone, but I would be nice if I could just clean off everything & start from scratch...
I know what I'm doing with my phone in respect to what apps I want etc now. So I wont be installing any old crap if you see what I mean...
Thank you
As long as your not restoring apps with titanium or similar just go ahead a format won't make much difference mind, they'll all be back in a week or 2 lol
I don't tend to bother unless there is a real reason to format your sd
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Ok cheers!
Ill rethink about this then!
stanny2k said:
MXBROWSER
PDV_LOG
QUICK START GUIDE
SAFETY GUIDE
SPEEDSOFTWARE
TUNNYBROWSER
TAPATALKXDAPRE_DOWNLOAD
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Gotcha. MXBROWSER is Maxthon Browser, SPEEDSOFTWARE could be a number of things - Root Explorer created the folder on mine. TAPATALKXDA is the XDA app (based on the Tapatalk app).
Quick start and safety guide are manuals HTC puts there
Hi.
I want to flash anew.
I want to backup my apps.
I do not have an external SD card (i mean - i do, i just don't use it, it's in my drawer collecting dust).
I see that I can backup apps with Titanium.
But - once I will flash, these backups will all be wiped, will they not?
THANK YOU !
Why not just copy the titanium backup folder to your computer first? Flash your rom then once you get your phone running copy the folder back to your phone. Reinstall titanium backup and restore as needed. Titanium also comes with dropbox built in which can be pretty useful.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Why not just copy the titanium backup folder to your computer first? Flash your rom then once you get your phone running copy the folder back to your phone. Reinstall titanium backup and restore as needed. Titanium also comes with dropbox built in which can be pretty useful.
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Great! Will do that! Thanks!
benyben123 said:
Hi.
I want to flash anew.
I want to backup my apps.
I do not have an external SD card (i mean - i do, i just don't use it, it's in my drawer collecting dust).
I see that I can backup apps with Titanium.
But - once I will flash, these backups will all be wiped, will they not?
THANK YOU !
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Yea I guess you are right....
Just didn't think of it since I thought I am suppose to format the SD card every time I flash. I also didn't know that TB saves its files to the SD card.
Thanks
ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Dude what is your problem. Sometimes people don't know as much as you. This is why they come here and ask questions. They don't need to be ridiculed for not knowing how to do something. I wouldn't ridicule you for losing for instance some chess games against me. I would instead assume you haven't spent thousands of hours studying it and be fine with that instead of throwing it in your face. You have a problem. I've been coming to these forums for maybe 2 weeks and I've seen some negative or condescending thing from you over and over. Read the rules and adhere to them or kindly leave. That is all.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Dude what is your problem. Sometimes people don't know as much as you. This is why they come here and ask questions. They don't need to be ridiculed for not knowing how to do something. I wouldn't ridicule you for losing for instance some chess games against me. I would instead assume you haven't spent thousands of hours studying it and be fine with that instead of throwing it in your face. You have a problem. I've been coming to these forums for maybe 2 weeks and I've seen some negative or condescending thing from you over and over. Read the rules and adhere to them or kindly leave. That is all.
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I'll school you in a game of chess!
If you got chesspresso installed lets play a game sometime.
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Not going to waste my time bud.
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Not to be rude but if you could beat me I would know who you are. I sort of make part of my living giving private lessons.
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ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Why are you always a ****? Get a clue and lose the damn attitude.
I swear you sound just like a guy that was banned with a very similar name.
e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Not going to waste my time bud.
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The Ruy Lopez hah!
I keeeeeel you!
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ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Firstly, Your Rude, Secondly you don't have a clue because you are completely wrong and clearly cannot read.
The OP had clearly stated he did not have an SD Card (but COULD), so if you did a full backup to internal memory (because of no SD Card).
Then yes, if you flash (as most require format/wipe, cache, and dalvik) you would also wipe your backup. Those with devices with no SD Card support should take care to copy the backup files manually to another device for later use.
I was searching for the question of "How to use Titanium Backup before flashing to a new ROM?"
However my question remains unanswered...
I have a custom ROM already installed, with all my apps and configuration etc, I want to try a new ROM to test something, then revert back to the ROM I am using now,
Does Titanium Backup create a restore point image, that I can restore later, and as such carry on using my device where I had it at the point of backup?
If not an image, then is the functionality I am looking for available?
Many Thanks,
Robert Readman
I don't believe titanium offers the feature you are looking for. It does have a feature that creates a flashable zip to to flash all your apps backcto the phone...however this feature has never worked for me lol. I always have to restore my apps the old fashioned way with the batch options restore. Like you,I did not have a SD card when I first flashed my phone. To get around this issue I created a backup with cwm and moved it to my PC for safe keeping. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID and transfer the backup to PC via USB cable....if you do this the md5 sum will become corrupt. I don't know why but nandroids are sensitive in the way they handled/moved across platforms. Download the free app from the market called Airdroid. It connects your phone to your PC through a wireless LAN connection. It takes a little longer to transfer the boot image since its a large file but its MUCH safer. When you do transfer the nandroid to your PC its very important to not change ANYTHING in the file, especially the name. Change nothing! Otherwise you will mess up the md5. If you do get aa corrupt md5 like I did there is a tutorial on this site somewhere that walks you through the process of fixing it but it was a pain in the a** so use airdroid lol. Hope this helped.
Ps- having a SD card makes like much easier in the world of flashing/android Modding. Even a small one is worth it. Best of luck
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Pain-N-Panic said:
DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID and transfer the backup to PC via USB cable....if you do this the md5 sum will become corrupt. I don't know why but nandroids are sensitive in the way they handled/moved across platforms.
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Thanks for this Pain-N-Panic, I am not sure, but it maybe something to do with transferring in binary / ASCII modes, similar to an issue you come across with FTP, so it is very plausible as an issue but someone with more knowledge of this would need to comment.
My solution which should help, is to go into Terminal Emulator, and use tar to create an archive.
Example...
type 'pwd' (for present working directory), it should be root by default '/'
in my case, i have /sdcard/ as a symlink to /storage/primary/legacy/
so then type 'cd' (for change directory) to the location of your sd card storage.
then typing 'tar -cvf file.tar ./folder/' c for create, v for verbose, f for file, then the file to create, and the folder.
Search for use of tar online, if you require more information.
Code:
cd /sdcard/
tar -cvf TitaniumBackup.tar /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/
You can then transfer your TitaniumBackup.tar with all file ownership, permissions and even file / folder timestamps are stored, for restoring the folder later.
I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
I had cwm originally and randomly lost files off my sd card or were corrupted after mounting as usb so switched to twrp and have had the same problems with losing random files and corruption of files. So I don't think it's specific to the recovery its something else that's causing it. Wish I new what it was because it's quite annoying. I've resorted to only transfering files via dropbox or lan with es file explorer but it's definitely a pain when transferring a Rom.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
gunnyman said:
enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
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QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
I also started syncing my photos to dropbox every day or so i can't lose those either.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andrios app I have ever bought, period.
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I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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regP said:
QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
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Well I don't have to pull it from the cloud since it syncs to my desktop automatically but man it saves you from having to remember to do it.
E.Cadro said:
I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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I've wondered the same thing... It might not be recovery related since it happens with both.
That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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Lol your trying to wipe your sd card can't and ours are being wiped inadvertently
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gunnyman said:
I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
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Go to cnet.com and download Recuva. Then do a deep scan and it will recover the stuff you lost... worked for me
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I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
Ahh, I hate this bug!! I've lost several things and have had tons of pics become corrupted.
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I just lost a few photo's today. First time I've encountered this bug. Guess its time to get dropbox and have it sync my photo's and tibu stuff.
I'm pretty damn paranoid, so I've started doing an SD Card dump right before flashing a ROM using ADB.
$ adb pull /sdcard/
Probably overkill, since I have almost everything important backed up somewhere, but I'd rather take the extra thirty minutes and make sure I don't lose anything permanently.
Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
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Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
Pumpiron579 said:
I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
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This is also my theory.
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indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
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Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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ECEXCURSION said:
Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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I just drag them from my phone to my dropbox folder on the computer and it syncs
the downer is there's no way to move a whole folder from dropbox to the phone, from the phone
Hey Everyone,
If I go onto "My Files" on my Galaxy S4, I see there are at least 40 folders and probably 10 are ones that I know of, rest of them are apps developers such as "Halfbrick" so I had this question, is there any way that I could move all applications under one folder or whatever, rooted and unrooted (I'm currently unrooted)?
Thanks,
Nandish
These are probably cache files, that store temporary data controlled by a certain application. I don't know but these folders are created by apps, to store data, if you move them into another folder it'll result in a possible reset of the app? (Loss of data). If its on the root of the SD card, it has data for the app.
If its in the android folder, you can delete most of the folders excluding games as it will most likely have important data. Best way to clear up this is to go into Settings>Storage>Clear cache.
Don't worry about these folders, they are just folders with data information on the app. Well that's my theory and so far its been supporting me.
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These are probably cache files, that store temporary data controlled by a certain application. I don't know but these folders are created by apps, to store data, if you move them into another folder it'll result in a possible reset of the app? (Loss of data). If its on the root of the SD card, it has data for the app.
If its in the android folder, you can delete most of the folders excluding games as it will most likely have important data. Best way to clear up this is to go into Settings>Storage>Clear cache.
Don't worry about these folders, they are just folders with data information on the app. Well that's my theory and so far its been supporting me.
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I know what they are (this sounds rude but it's not what I mean, I mean that I understand that they're important) but I guess there's no way to move them into one folder?
Thanks anyway!
as said, you cannot move them into another folder or delete them.
NandishV said:
I know what they are (this sounds rude but it's not what I mean, I mean that I understand that they're important) but I guess there's no way to move them into one folder?
Thanks anyway!
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Moving them would merely force their recreation on app start.
Please quote me in replies.
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hunterk11 said:
Moving them would merely force their recreation on app start.
Please quote me in replies.
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I had the same problem, i followed the guide and got my device wiped, the secure way....
Note: You'll get all your data (including sd Card! )
You'll loose anything custom you've installed (but not the flash counter)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2697238
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Moving them would merely force their recreation on app start.
Please quote me in replies.
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Oh right, thanks!
eatsleep said:
I had the same problem, i followed the guide and got my device wiped, the secure way....
Note: You'll get all your data (including sd Card! )
You'll loose anything custom you've installed (but not the flash counter)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2697238
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What do you mean?
I am just wondering if it is safe to store these on the external SD card??
If for some reason i needed to access them, would I be able to? They are currently taking up a good chunk of my internal memory. I only have one, but its taking up 483MB. I want to make a newer one as well - how do I go about doing that? Again, would it be safe to keep it on the external SD card if I needed access in the future? The old one is from when the original owner rooted the device I imagine, cant be sure, but it was definately before I had it. It was brand new other than the root/unlock which i knew about ahead of time.
Anyway, is it safe to move/create a new one and move it?
Yes, if you copy and paste, make sure to keep the exact folders and their names, along with any files in them. It is completely safe
Edit: in fact you can also do the backups directly to external sd card right from recovery.
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Yes, if you copy and paste, make sure to keep the exact folders and their names, along with any files in them. It is completely safe
Edit: in fact you can also do the backups directly to external sd card right from recovery.
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Do you mean on the external sd card to also call the folders "clockworkmod/backup/<date>"?
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Do you mean on the external sd card to also call the folders "clockworkmod/backup/<date>"?
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Yes. Whatever the folder tree looks like on ur internal memory copy it EXACTLY to ur sd card
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Yes. Whatever the folder tree looks like on ur internal memory copy it EXACTLY to ur sd card
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Is there a way, after i move it, to see if I can see it from my external SD card within the recovery without actually using the backup/reverting back to those settings???
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Is there a way, after i move it, to see if I can see it from my external SD card within the recovery without actually using the backup/reverting back to those settings???
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If u go to "restore" u should see ur backups.
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If u go to "restore" u should see ur backups.
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Ok, so ive taken the time tongiht to copy my backups from the internal to the external, using the same paths. I even included the ".nomedia" ".salted_hash" and ".settings" just in case.
I also have a copy on my desktop hard drive.
Is it now safe to delete them off of the internal storage? How can I confirm that they can still be seen from recovery - but without actually using them to recover/reset the system at this current time?
I already made another backup accidently last night. I was in custom recovery clearing out the cache, and I went into backup just wondering if thats where you go to make one (i figured it would confirm by making you scroll to yes like every other option). it started making a new backup. Luckily i had 60% battery so i was able to let it finish. So at least now i have a backup of my current system.
The problem is both backups are taking up 2 gigs of internal space now and i only have 4gigs. So, these definately need to be pitched if possible.
ETA: So after I watched a video on youtube, i did go in, and i can see both dates of backups.... but all of the files are still in both locations... how can I tell which ones CWM is seeing??