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[Q] Moving and linking Folders to external SDCard (eg Google Music cache)

Hello folks,
I am trying to move my google music cache to the external 32GB SD card so that it won't fill up my internal storage but somehow I fail.
Here is what I did so far:
format sdcard as ext2
manually mount sdcard since it won't automatically when ext:
Code:
mkdir /Removable/MicroSD
mount -r -w -t ext2 /dev/block/vold/179\:9 /Removable/MicroSD
mkdir /Removable/MicroSD/GoogleMusicData
Then move all data from /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache to /Removable/MicroSD/GoogleMusicData/cache
I did this with root explorer since I'm not too much of a terminal h4xx0r.
Delete the folder /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/
Link the new Folder on external MicroSD Card to the original location via this terminal command:
Code:
ln -s /Removable/MicroSD/GoogleMusicData /data/media/Android/data/com.google.android.music
Since /sdcard is already a link like the one I am setting up here, it is not possible to link to this linked location (/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music).
Instead I had to link to the origninal destination of /sdcard which is /data/media.
Now the microSD card is accessible for root explorer. It shows read and write access.
But google music won't find it. It says that it doesn't have enough space to stream music so I figure that it somehow doesn't have access to the sd card.
What could be the issue here?
Also instead of 28GB free memory root explorer shows me only 364,44MB free memory. the command "df" in terminal however confirms 28GB of free memory.
I thought that a reboot might do it. But it doesn't. Instead it gets rid of all the hacking I've done in terminal. So I guess I would have to place a script in /etc/init.d for the link to be set everytime I reboot, right?
Help please?

We don't know how gmusic checks that, but I would suggest checking the perms on the mount, perhaps even mounting somewhere else.
Never done it and don't have the resources but I'm sure with root, making /mnt/sdcard a real microsd is possible.
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Maybe this thread will help ?

Thanks for your response!
What do you mean by "checking the perms on the mount"?
I don't want to mount my microsd to /sdcard since then I would have 16 gigs of unused space on my internal memory.
I would rather just link this music folder to my external card and maybe some others later (e.g. DCIM and so on).
I have also tried the mount -o bind command instead of ln but that didn't do the job either. the folder com.google.android.music then only appeared under /data/media/Android/data/ but not under /sdcard/Android/data/ which I totally don't understand how that can happen.
I have root of course.
Does anybody maybe have a script by hand of a similar undertaking so that I can look into that and try to understand how this whole mounting and binding thing works?

Foldermount is tricking ES File Explorer

I've been troubleshooting this on my own for about a week now... When you open up ES and click on the folder above the icons, you get a drop down menu with your SD card directory which links to the emulated/0 folder, and the extSdCard that links to the storage/extSdCard... My problem is that when Foldermount is done mounting its stuff, and displays "removing content from gallery", ES then thinks that my external storage folder is com.crescentmoongames.aralon... Any idea on how to make ES remember where the actual external directory should be?

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I've been troubleshooting this on my own for about a week now... When you open up ES and click on the folder above the icons, you get a drop down menu with your SD card directory which links to the emulated/0 folder, and the extSdCard that links to the storage/extSdCard... My problem is that when Foldermount is done mounting its stuff, and displays "removing content from gallery", ES then thinks that my external storage folder is com.crescentmoongames.aralon... Any idea on how to make ES remember where the actual external directory should be?
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Same problem here people is there no one with the answer

[GUIDE]Install games bigger than your free internal memory

First of all, clarification:
1.There's a lot of guides showing how to bind large games' .obb files and their respective folders/directories to external sd card. This guide will show you how to install these games even if they are bigger than your internal memory. For example, you got 4 Gb internal SD, on ROM goes 2.5 Gb, and for all your apps, pictures and videos goes 1.5 Gb. It fills really fast, so if you want some HD game, say FIFA 14, you can't install it. Here my guide jumps in.​2.When a program binds game's .obb data directory (if you have enough memory free on internal SD for the game to install in the first place), its .obb file is indeed transfered on external SD card, but often in memory status there's a bug which still shows it on your internal memory and it is full, but it is not case here.​
You need:
1.Rooted phone, Install from unknown sources allowed
2.FolderMount installed (didn't try with Directory Bind yet)
3.Root file manager like Root explorer installed
4.Game you want to install with .apk +data folder downloaded on your PC
5.Write down or somehow mark names of game's data folder and it's .obb file
So, let's start..
1.Find out where should be game's data folder (in most cases it's Android/obb folder)
2.Copy apk on SD root and folder with .obb files on external SD where it should be installed by default
* make Android/obb folder on external SD if you didn't already​* for real if it was to be installed on internal memory the path would be: storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/yourgamefolderwithobb​3.Once copying is done, navigate with your root browser on INTERNAL SD, and make folder named exactly as your game, the one that you wrote down, on exact location,for example storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/ and inthere you make this yourgamefolderwithobb folder (case sensitive!)
4.Now, you get inside this folder that you made with your root file manager, here it is ˝yourgamefolderwithobb˝ without quotes and inthere you make new file named exactly as your game's .obb file, with .obb extension, and save it, for example ˝main.128yourgame.obb˝ without quotes - case sensitive
* if for any reason you can't save your new file, then you make it on your external SD's root and copy where it belongs on internal SD, and if even this isn't possible, then make this file on your pc - new .txt document> save as>all files>exactly named as your .obb and then copy it via USB on your internal SD on the right place, in the right folder.​5.When all previous steps are done, navigate to external SD root and install your game's .apk . When instalation is done, exit your root file manager.
* DO NOT OPEN GAME ONCE INSTALLED, FOR IT'S NOT OVER YET! Just exit​6.Go to your MountFolder. On the upper left corner next to ˝List of pairs˝ headline touch menu icon.
7.Once menu open, touch ˝Apps analyzer˝ option. After short scaning, a list of your apps will appear. Search this list for app you just installed. If it's on the list, so far everything is OK, but if it isn't... you probably messed something up, see if you skipped a step or two click back button.
8.Open FolderMount again if it exits. Click ˝+˝ option at the top
9.Give name to your game (gta, tenis...) by filling ˝name˝ gap
10.Click ˝Source˝ gap and navigate to internal SD in the game's directory that you made in step 3! By clicking ˝Source˝ you should already be in /storage/emulated/0, it will say at the top the name and the path of your current directory. Once you're in directory you made, click ✓ option at the upper right
11.A pop-up will appear saying ˝Would you like me to create the destination folder automatically? You can choose a custom destination by clicking no˝ Click NO
12.Click ˝Destination˝ gap and navigate in directory that you copied from your PC on EXTERNAL SD in step 2! Once there click ✓ option again
13.You're back in menu with Name,Source and Destination gaps which you filled. Touch ✓ again.
*I didn't try to tick ˝exclude from media scanning˝, you shouldn't too 'till you check if everything is working as it should. Try experimenting later.​14.New pop-up will appear asking ˝Your source directory is not empty. Would you like me to move files to the destination(and overwrite existing files)?˝ Click NO again
15.You're in main menu in FolderMount, there's your game's name that you gave it earlier, next to it is grey pin. Touch that pin once and it will turn green.
* in FolderMount after every reboot a pin will turn grey. Just click it before trying to play game because it will not see .obb files and will try to download them again.​16.Exit FolderMount and PLAY YOUR GAME!!!
EDIT:
There is a lot of devices, every of them has different internal and external SD paths, be sure to know them well. The best way to find this out is to go in FolderMount, try to create new bind, and by tapping Source and Destination gap see the path for each SD in the upper part of the screen.
Some SD card locations on various devices:
/mnt/sdcard0 - internal and /mnt/sdcard1 - external;
/mnt/sdcard - internal and /mnt/extSD - external
Also, if this guide helped you feel free to let me know that by pressing THANKS button

Thanks Man You Saved My life

iDuc said:
Thanks Man You Saved My life
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Glad to help man

Thanks Alot i Realy Needed This Method Because i Love To Play Games But My internal is only 4 gigs and user 1.35 and searched the whole internet for any way but i didn't find
Thanks again
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Thanks Alot i Realy Needed This Method Because i Love To Play Games But My internal is only 4 gigs and user 1.35 and searched the whole internet for any way but i didn't find
Thanks again

I will most certainly have to try this on my tablet! Thank you very much

samsung galaxy note GT-N8010 FILEING problem

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.
Supplementary Question
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

Any way to access internal storage after adding SD card?

I have added an SD card for a friend's G7 Power, however, now when I plug it into the computer and select file transfer, it only shows the SD card and he has some photos in the internal storage that we can't get it out of the phone (they are sitll visible on the Photo app). I found an older thread with similar issue on a Moto G4. The answer at the time was this is an known issue and there's no fix yet. Is this fixed on the G7 Power? Thanks.

I don't have this phone but a way I would try is opening up the gallery app and then looking at the photos details and see if it gives a location
I would then connect phone to PC and do an adb pull of the file/folder
Eg adb pull location of file
Google adb guldes if you have never used adb before & you need to download the adb files
You can also try using total commander file browser and going to the file system root directory and then selecting storage folder
It will then list the available storage folders but if sd card is mounted as Internal storage it might combine the internal storage and sd card into one virtual directory

TheFixItMan said:
I don't have this phone but a way I would try is opening up the gallery app and then looking at the photos details and see if it gives a location
I would then connect phone to PC and do an adb pull of the file/folder
Eg adb pull location of file
Google adb guldes if you have never used adb before & you need to download the adb files
You can also try using total commander file browser and going to the file system root directory and then selecting storage folder
It will then list the available storage folders but if sd card is mounted as Internal storage it might combine the internal storage and sd card into one virtual directory
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I tried opening the photos in the Google Photo app, it doesn't show the files' location. I'll try it with the the OnePlus gallery app next time he brings over the phone.
As for using total commander, does it work if his phone is not rooted? With ES Files explorer I can only see the SD card folders.

awdrifter said:
I tried opening the photos in the Google Photo app, it doesn't show the files' location. I'll try it with the the OnePlus gallery app next time he brings over the phone.
As for using total commander, does it work if his phone is not rooted? With ES Files explorer I can only see the SD card folders.
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Most photo apps should tell you the photo location on the device in its details or more information section if you long press the image
You don't need root access to access the root directory
You can probably do it with es file explorer too but I don't use it
You just need to keep going up a level until you reach the root location - with total commander there's a folder on the main menu for root directory
You only need root to access the data partition or to modify files in the root or system partition
All you need is access the storage folder which will then list all available drives be that physical or virtual