Does anyone have an idea what service repeatedly recreates the empty "Playlists" folder at the root of internal storage (& if it can be stopped)? My device is a rooted Galaxy S9 on Alexandr's ROM, if that's relevant.
Yes, I know this is very OCD...but I'm one of those wackos who just really prefers to have clean/organized file structure on my top level storage - and as there's plenty of stuff I genuinely can't move, having this empty folder recreate itself over & over bothers me every time I use MTP
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I've moved phones, and my new phone calls it's internal storage 'sdcard0'. Due to the fact this is what my last phone called the external SD all of the file paths for my backups have been broken. The most important of these is PowerAMP, which is looking for the files in the wrong place. While I can get it to find the files, all data(artwork, ratings etc) is lost. I cannot move the music to the internal storage, as the folder is bigger than the internal storage.
Is there a way I can modify the data/apk to look for the files in a different location? I've changed the prefix with playlist files in windows before, and it worked.
Do I instead need to change the names of my SDcards? If so, what kind of problems would this cause, and what is the preferred method?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Good Evening Everyone !
You may have already seen this subject many times but I really need help as I can't find a way to fix my very particular situation.
Actually, HTC Chacha is a very particular smarthpone as it contains only 150 Mo Internal (/data).
I have also a 2gb sdcard which is composed of 1,3Gb truly external (for photos and my documents, this partition comes unavailable when I plug my smartphone to my computer for instance) and the other part is sdext2 which remains mounted inside the smartphone at any time.
Even though internal storage is reduced, I managed to set-up many application thanks to Linked2SD which helps me move apk and dex toward my 2nd partition (sdext2). However, as you must know, an app is composed of apk, dex and data. This last part is still stored in the internal memory (150 mo) (Link2SD does'nt link the data of the application but only the application itself).
How can I move those data to my external sdcard ?
Second question, is it possible to do this with data from the application contacts (in this particular case, data = my contacts database) which apk and dex haven't been linked by Link2SD. I would like to "get rid" of my contacts because 30 Mo of database makes my smartphone run out of internal storage (you can laugh, but the OS (Sense) doens't like this at all !!!).
I thought about FolderMount to move data stored in data/data to a folder on my sdcard but I don't how to do ?
Do I need first to move manually the data of the application (stored in /data/data) to my sdcard and then create a link ?
The source will be the folder in sdcard that I've just moved and the destination would be its former location ?
I hope I have been clear. Ask me if I haven't.
Thank you so much for you help !
Ok, so off and on I have been doing some looking around on how to move things from teh internal storage to the external.
Then I had a question.
I know that these programs create an "image" i guess of the stuff that is supposed to be on the internal making the system think its still there. With the mount and this "image" taking up "space" - are you ever able to actually make the device think you have freed up space and install more things?? Does it really actually make any sense to do any of these things?
I played around with a few in directory bind, and while my external availability number changed, my internals didnt. i checked both with the binds active and disabled. the numbers were exactly the same.
At first i was thinking that maybe you would have to temporarily unbind one thing (to remove the image from the internal) and install the new thing, create a new bind for the new thing, and then renable both the old and new things.... but with the internal numbers not changing even with binds off (stuff only on external) this doesnt make sense either.
has anyone run into this and found a solution??
Never owned a phone that came with microsd and this new Sony phone intrigues me. Biggest bummer about this phone is that it only comes with 16 GB internal storage. I don't know how this work since the kit-kat upgrade came out but my question is that say I'm a heavy Whatsapp user and and have lots of photos and convos saved onto my phone so can that automatically transfer to my sdcard? With this little memory im scared I might run out of room with all my other apps as well. Btw i'm not a guy that roots my phone so that would be out of the question unless that was the only last option to make this work. Hope to get some detailed feedback from you guys. :fingers-crossed::laugh:
I don't think you would need to root the Z3 to do what you want. I haven't had an expandable memory slot since my old HD2. Nexus 4 for the last few years, working with limited memory is something I wish to finally again leave behind.
I don't know how it works on the Z3, but with KitKat this is the gist:
Apps can write to the sdcard, but only to their "approved" folders. E.g. After 4.3 or so we got an /Android/data/ folder inside the root of our sdcards. Inside that are app package names. So if a developer calls getExternalFilesDirs() it will list an array, one being the internal Android/data folder and the other being the SDcard Android/data folder. However, no change is needed on the app developer if they let you browse directories (you can just point the save location to the proper data folder package name). So, for example, I use FX File Explorer and move files to /extSdCard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files from my internal memory on my S4.
Currently the only negative are games like Baldur's Gate. They only install to the internal memory and at 2.3GB can not be moved to the sdcard. If you root you might be able to swap the directories, but I haven't tried as I prefer to not root. But as it stands, that 2.3GB would go against the 16GB internal storage.
jonshipman said:
I don't know how it works on the Z3, but with KitKat this is the gist:
Apps can write to the sdcard, but only to their "approved" folders. E.g. After 4.3 or so we got an /Android/data/ folder inside the root of our sdcards. Inside that are app package names. So if a developer calls getExternalFilesDirs() it will list an array, one being the internal Android/data folder and the other being the SDcard Android/data folder. However, no change is needed on the app developer if they let you browse directories (you can just point the save location to the proper data folder package name). So, for example, I use FX File Explorer and move files to /extSdCard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files from my internal memory on my S4.
Currently the only negative are games like Baldur's Gate. They only install to the internal memory and at 2.3GB can not be moved to the sdcard. If you root you might be able to swap the directories, but I haven't tried as I prefer to not root. But as it stands, that 2.3GB would go against the 16GB internal storage.
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Yea Iike the what's app itself is only cpl MB and I don't mind that on my internal but within what's app I have 3GB worth of photos videos from my group chats that I like to keep so I need to know if that can automatically be saved to sdcard or I have to find a different phone.
ms54 said:
Yea Iike the what's app itself is only cpl MB and I don't mind that on my internal but within what's app I have 3GB worth of photos videos from my group chats that I like to keep so I need to know if that can automatically be saved to sdcard or I have to find a different phone.
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Where is WhatsApp saving the pictures? To tell you the truth, no phone post 4.4.4 without rooting will do what you need. So you may need to look for something with larger internal storage.
aaronlee0712 said:
Guys, I'm using Samsung phone too and my WhatsApp media files is in a mess too since the location change a couple of months ago. Now I have media stores in these 2 folders, just like you guys:
1) Whatsapp/Media
2) Android/media/com.whatsapp/Whatsapp/Media (new location)
Now my issue is, I have photos back from year 2016. I can view it in Whatsapp chat (some of them can't locate anymore) but i can't find it in both the directories mentioned above. When I select 'view in gallery', and then i use MiXplorer to check the image location, it says: (refer to attached screenshots)
Path: content://com.whatsapp.provider.media/item (which i guess it is in obb folder)
How is this even possible? The image is not lost but it is not accessible by me anymore and I cant back it up. Due to this mess, I really want to tidy up my media files and move them into single location, presumably the new location but the missing files stop me from doing it. It's bugging me for a few months now
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Hello Guys.
I'm new user in the community, but I am aware of this forum since many many years ago.
The thing is I have the same problem as the user above-mentioned in the quote has.
Is being a nightmare, as I cannot find any solution since I checked every single android path on my phone.
Any help would be great.
Thanks very much
AFAIK on Android, media files are automatically saved in your WhatsApp/Media/folder. If you have Internal Storage, the WhatsApp folder is located in your Internal Storage. If you do not have internal storage, the folder will be on your SD Card or External SD Card.