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I want to move a folder to the micro sd card...and then link the original folder to it...to save space...
how is this done? i cant find it on the web and with EZ file explorer.
Maybe another solution?
thanks!
Why dont you just cut the original folder from the internal sd card and then paste onto your external sd card.
You dont need to keep the original folder on the internal sd card.
bolinao said:
Why dont you just cut the original folder from the internal sd card and then paste onto your external sd card.
You dont need to keep the original folder on the internal sd card.
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Because apps like gameloft have their data stored on the internal storage. Moving that data will not make gameloft's games search for a new location...
borgqueenx said:
Because apps like gameloft have their data stored on the internal storage.
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Unpatched games do,but if you patch the game like the post i showed you on the other thread,then the game will run with the data stored on the external sd card.
If you still dont understand,i can do a step by step instruction on how to run a gameloft game with the data stored on the external sd card.
borgqueenx said:
I want to move a folder to the micro sd card...and then link the original folder to it...to save space...
how is this done? i cant find it on the web and with EZ file explorer.
Maybe another solution?
thanks!
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Google Linux symbolic link
Pete
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mad_sunday said:
Google Linux symbolic link
Pete
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Linux?
Were talking about android?
@bolinao i got reports that the patcher does not work for the optimus 3d.
Do you used it?
borgqueenx said:
Linux?
Were talking about android?
@bolinao i got reports that the patcher does not work for the optimus 3d.
Do you used it?
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Yes i use it and it works fine.. if it dont work for some people then they are doing something wrong.
okay il try then...
to bad file linking does nto work because the file system used
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Quote ]Linux? Were talking about android?
Android runs on Linux, didn't everyone know that?
Linux.............it's the future.
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Hello, is anyone of you use the app GL to SD? Does it do the job for you? In fact, there's some issue. For example, the problem for me is that even the data file is said to be moved in the external sd, there's still a copy of it in the internal storage and when I deleted it and I go back to the GL to SD app to open the game, it doesn't load. Therefore, obviously, the game still relies on the data located in the INTERNAL STORAGE in order for it to operate. That's the problem...
Note 2 N7100 with OMEGA ROM
It's Working Perfect but I heard that utility NT working only on cm roms.
First of all, Make sure gl to sd have root access. Second you should use file manager and create a file called data and another one called obb in your ext sd card. It depends on the game some can be placed in data others can be placed in obb.
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Hello, is anyone of you use the app GL to SD? Does it do the job for you? In fact, there's some issue. For example, the problem for me is that even the data file is said to be moved in the external sd, there's still a copy of it in the internal storage and when I deleted it and I go back to the GL to SD app to open the game, it doesn't load. Therefore, obviously, the game still relies on the data located in the INTERNAL STORAGE in order for it to operate. That's the problem...
Note 2 N7100 with OMEGA ROM
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Maybe you mount the folder and the folder you delete is actually in external sd.
Give me a email is more fast to know.
I have the same issue
I have exactly the same problem. I tried Gl to SD on Real Racing 3 and Mini Motor Racing. The application copy the content of data or obb in my external SD Card but the folder remains in the phone. So instead of saving space I'm using twice as much as each of those games should :/ Pretty serious issue. I don't even know if I can cancel what GL to SD did and come back to normal with data internal only. But I tried to start the games renaming the folder in the phone OR the folder in the externalSD and it does not start. A shame.
If anyone have an idea and may know what I eventually did wrong, thanks in advance for sharing the info !
I checked a bit more and it seems that GL to SD functions fine. When I mount real racing 3 a folder "com.ea.games.r3_row" of 1.39 Gb suddenly "appear" in Android/data. This folder is a perfect "copy" of what's in the ExternalSD. If I unmount the game the folder disappear. But before and after my disk space remains identical.
In other words GL to DS mount an image, making android believe a folder is there. But it is here only virtually. The physical folder is in the External SD. It's the same idea as Daemon Tools on PC. You mount an image .img .iso .nrg in a virtual DVD. You can see the content of a DVD in windows eplorer but you know it is not really there. Daemon and GL to SD force your OS to believe that some files are where they are not in order to make a program start.
Other thing that may sound weird : some big programs appear in GL to SD with 0 kb or a very small size. GL to SD moves only what's inside data or obb folders. If a game have nothing in there then no space can be freed :/ Except by moving the application to SD card if your phone does that (HTC, etc). Samsung doesn't. ... which sucks big time.
I tried dozens of "move to sd" apps from om the store on my Samsung S3 but none work on this phone. GL to SD manage to do something really nice already on rooted device. If someone know an app that moves games/app on External SD for devices that does not allow that please let me know ! Thanks
Just to be sure...
lets say hypothetically you fill your entire phone storage up. will there be no room for the game to mount to phone and therefore it will not work? Does mounting fool the system into thinking its in internal storage? or does it actually move it there temporarily? cause if its the latter it doesnt make any sense cuz youll always need to keep 6GB free for 3 2GB games for example...which kind of defeats the purpose...no? does anyone know for sure for sure sure sure what happens?
I own Lava iris 406q , till some days back i was able to use gl to sd properly and suddenly after updating asphalt 8 to latest version , everything stopped working and now my gl to sd is not able to read external sd card , even though i have full root access , can any1 help here
Plzz tell me how to play big hd games like ashphalt . I also own 406q its rooted
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Plzz tell me
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gl to sd carshes on my android
I download it and first it work perfectly but some times when i use my galaxy grand duos it stop working and appear a screen: kernel restart.then i remove the battery to start device again what can i do to solve my problem
If anyone knows how to move data back to internal, please tell me. GL to SD worked fine for a few days but now it stopped working and I cannot play my games anymore.
Dan Law 001 said:
Hello, is anyone of you use the app GL to SD? Does it do the job for you? In fact, there's some issue. For example, the problem for me is that even the data file is said to be moved in the external sd, there's still a copy of it in the internal storage and when I deleted it and I go back to the GL to SD app to open the game, it doesn't load. Therefore, obviously, the game still relies on the data located in the INTERNAL STORAGE in order for it to operate. That's the problem...
Note 2 N7100 with OMEGA ROM
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Foldermount is a better alternative
Or you can use xposed module named OBB to SD(just copy obb folder of your game to sd card/android/obb)
Can anybody tell me that (unmount timeout error) in gl to sd card, how to fix it? i am using Samsung galaxy j7 and my phone is rooted but still there's an error i want to make some free space by game moving games into sd card or tell another app like this plz
my anroid is samsung j7 2015 and it has root access with a custom rom .when i open gl to sd app on my device then it autoclose and shows that cannot found microsd ,pls insert then try again..but i already have a sd card on my anroid of 8 gb ....sO pls help me what should i do.
thXx for advanCe
My shield is root and i try GL to SD and Folder Mount app to move the game to sd card but not success. After i move the game and mount it, when i start the game and nothing happen.
So anyone have any idea how to move the game to sd card because now my internal memory is full and i want to install more game on it.
Thanks
Folder mount is working for me you have to clone the directory first and then move the data to the cloned directory
Speedy Gonzalez said:
Folder mount is working for me you have to clone the directory first and then move the data to the cloned directory
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If we have use folder mount to move the game into sd card. Is that possible to move back to internal memory without download again the game data or losing the game data?
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wrc1010 said:
If we have use folder mount to move the game into sd card. Is that possible to move back to internal memory without download again the game data or losing the game data?
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yes you can copy-paste the data back to the internal memory with root explorer or with your computer
Speedy Gonzalez said:
Folder mount is working for me you have to clone the directory first and then move the data to the cloned directory
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I try using FolderMount, but the apps that were mounted just crash.
Speedy Gonzalez said:
Folder mount is working for me you have to clone the directory first and then move the data to the cloned directory
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What permissions are on your memory card right now? I have a 64GB card formatted to FAT32 and it just shows RWX on the group (or ---rwx---). If I try to change it, it tells me permission denied (and yes, I am rooted). I read up on it and it seems that FAT32 doesn't support permissions on Linux. So how are people getting this to work? FolderMount tells me it has an error changing permissions (obviously), and the game thinks that I need to download the data again.
darkjedi said:
What permissions are on your memory card right now? I have a 64GB card formatted to FAT32 and it just shows RWX on the group (or ---rwx---). If I try to change it, it tells me permission denied (and yes, I am rooted). I read up on it and it seems that FAT32 doesn't support permissions on Linux. So how are people getting this to work? FolderMount tells me it has an error changing permissions (obviously), and the game thinks that I need to download the data again.
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FAT32 just doesnt have advanced permissions support in the first place.
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FAT32 just doesnt have advanced permissions support in the first place.
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Right, but that doesn't quite explain how people have it working for them, but mine won't work. I'm curious how people are getting around this.
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What permissions are on your memory card right now? I have a 64GB card formatted to FAT32 and it just shows RWX on the group (or ---rwx---). If I try to change it, it tells me permission denied (and yes, I am rooted). I read up on it and it seems that FAT32 doesn't support permissions on Linux. So how are people getting this to work? FolderMount tells me it has an error changing permissions (obviously), and the game thinks that I need to download the data again.
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I have to check when I get home but all I did was format the card fat32 and run the folder mount
I noticed only some of the games would move for me. But I reinstalled Bards Tale and when I did it asked me when downloading the 3.8gb hi def version where I wanted to install and I was able to choose external storage.
Well folder mount is working for me just MC4 is not for some reason and the permissions on the SD are just read
Speedy Gonzalez said:
Well folder mount is working for me just MC4 is not for some reason and the permissions on the SD are just read
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Can you post a screenshot of your permissions in a root browser like ROM Toolbox or a similar one? I'm curious what it says.
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Can you post a screenshot of your permissions in a root browser like ROM Toolbox or a similar one? I'm curious what it says.
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Root explorer is fine ?
Weird. What did you use to format the SD card?
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With the SD card inserted on SD card reader formated fat32 with mini tool partition manager on my desktop with W8
I have use the folder mount app to transfer the games to sd card but not all the game working. Like if i transfer Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, The Dark Knight Rises or Fifa 12, after the folder mount finish transfer the file to sd card, then i open the game, it either stuck there or close the game by itself.
I wonder what happen?
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With the SD card inserted on SD card reader formated fat32 with mini tool partition manager on my desktop with W8
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Darn, it seems Mini Tool killed my SD card. Now nothing will read it. Windows doesn't see it, nor Android, or Linux. $40 gone.
darkjedi said:
Darn, it seems Mini Tool killed my SD card. Now nothing will read it. Windows doesn't see it, nor Android, or Linux. $40 gone.
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that's weird did you fixed it ?
Speedy Gonzalez said:
that's weird did you fixed it ?
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Nope, can't get any PC to read it. It sees my adapter, but not the card.
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wrc1010 said:
I have use the folder mount app to transfer the games to sd card but not all the game working. Like if i transfer Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, The Dark Knight Rises or Fifa 12, after the folder mount finish transfer the file to sd card, then i open the game, it either stuck there or close the game by itself.
I wonder what happen?
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firstly before you start to move the app/game make sure that the all the apps are closed, then move the app then after click on the pin to mount it then dont open the app straight away, restart your device wait a few seconds then open the app and it works perfect, thats what i did because i had the same problem as you had at first and this solved it for me, now all my games works perfect while moved to my 64gb class 10 sd card :good:
Like some phone have an option to choose external or internal sd as default.
well i can use foldermount but it only mounts folder. what if you want to download a game which is 1.5 gb on play store and you have
1 gb free or maximum internal storage then you can never download that game form playstore. so can any one tell me how to exchange internal sd with external. i am using sony xperia e3 d2212 rooted and unlocked bootloader.
android-vinay said:
Like some phone have an option to choose external or internal sd as default.
well i can use foldermount but it only mounts folder. what if you want to download a game which is 1.5 gb on play store and you have
1 gb free or maximum internal storage then you can never download that game form playstore. so can any one tell me how to exchange internal sd with external. i am using sony xperia e3 d2212 rooted and unlocked bootloader.
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I know that not you ask for but, maybe you can use Link2SD for move your Apps in your SD card, that should help you
I use it because I have a space problem on my Xperia E3 to ^^
I hope I've been some help ^^
PS:Sorry for my english, I'm a french person ^^'
Moiremoi said:
I know that not you ask for but, maybe you can use Link2SD for move your Apps in your SD card, that should help you
I use it because I have a space problem on my Xperia E3 to ^^
I hope I've been some help ^^
PS:Sorry for my english, I'm a french person ^^'
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link to sd only moves apps to sd but playstore still unless.
well your english is good.
Excuse me, I didn't understand all of your message ^^'
I have the same probleme, I want to play The Wolf Among Us but the whole game takes more than 1.5 Go :-/
I'm sorry but I can't help you ^^'
so if someone find a solution, tell it !
Seems like nohow. LOL. It appears by now that switching memory is NOT an option, so all those, suffering, use FOLDERMOUNT app!
Raproid said:
Seems like nohow. LOL. It appears by now that switching memory is NOT an option, so all those, suffering, use FOLDERMOUNT app!
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as much as i know this can be done using text editor to edit System/etc/vold.fstab
but i don,t know how.
Perhaps we can unmount the internal SD, so that Android only sees the external SD and uses it for all.
The internal SD could be used to extend system memory or as temporary space, swap partition?
I don't know good about Linux. So perhaps it's not possible.
Sony claims that they unified the data partition (where all apps are stored) with the user partition. So I don't know if it is THAT easy to unmount the internal storage. One trick, though, that is around for a bit of time is to swap the mount destination in /system/etc/vold.fstab.
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Sony claims that they unified the data partition (where all apps are stored) with the user partition. So I don't know if it is THAT easy to unmount the internal storage. One trick, though, that is around for a bit of time is to swap the mount destination in /system/etc/vold.fstab.
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vold.fstab is easy to use for exchange memorys on some older version of android but in kitkat i can,t understand code.
I've found an App
Use GL to SD, it allows you to move obb on SD card
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Use GL to SD, it allows you to move obb on SD card
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I am taking about playstore download. How can you download games like asphalt 8,mc5 on your device. Without downloading it is not possible to move them to sdcard1 downloading through other websites can cause problems. And we can,t get updates.
Gl to Sd only moves downloaded obb,s it won,t allow play store to download obb to sd1
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android-vinay said:
I am taking about playstore download. How can you download games like asphalt 8,mc5 on your device. Without downloading it is not possible to move them to sdcard1 downloading through other websites can cause problems. And we can,t get updates.
Gl to Sd only moves downloaded obb,s it won,t allow play store to download obb to sd1
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playstore problem is not fixed but i wanna tell you don,t waste your time on app,s that have to mount data like gl to sd or foldermount do
use obb to sd xposed module you just have to copy obb to external sd apps can dettect it. you can have obb in internal or exernal just by copying no need to mount.
and i am still waiting for a solution of playstore if anyone know how to make xposed mdules please make a module to force playstore to detect external sd card free space and download additional obb files to external sd.
partiotion
You should see this link http://rootmyandroid.org/increase-internal-memory-phone.html
This works for me, still like a charm
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.pyler.xinternalsd
Click here I created a simple guide
it's very easy
You can do it by obb on sd ( xposed. Module)
Hi..
I have umi zero with android 4.4.2 and when I use foldermount to move games and big files to external sd card it appears that the obb file is moving but when it is done and I check the pin green every time I try to open the game it redownload the obb file again!!
Please tell me what to do to resolve the problem and remove the game folders to external SD card.
Also I want to know if there is a way to move WhatsApp folder to external SD card.
Thanks guys..
sadler123 said:
Hi..
I have umi zero with android 4.4.2 and when I use foldermount to move games and big files to external sd card it appears that the obb file is moving but when it is done and I check the pin green every time I try to open the game it redownload the obb file again!!
Please tell me what to do to resolve the problem and remove the game folders to external SD card.
Also I want to know if there is a way to move WhatsApp folder to external SD card.
Thanks guys..
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Hi, some games don't like being moved on to SD as I found in my experience (I don't know why) but for the WhatsApp folder you can move the app to your SD card by using Link2SD from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919326
I did used link to SD to move WhatsApp and this message appeared :
And folder mount didn't work for me at all , I tried several games but no luck.
sadler123 said:
And folder mount didn't work for me at all , I tried several games but no luck.
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Hmm, I haven't seen that message before