Hi all,
So I am still confused about the Sdcard permissions thing and really need this question answered before upgrading.
Im a scientist, and therefore have hundreds of saved literature articles in pdf format.
For several years, I have been putting new pdfs on dropbox for library syncing. Paired with dropsync, this would allow me to automatically sync all new papers directly to my tablet for viewing in ezPDF reader.
Is the kitkat update going to break ezPDF's ability to read and access the pdfs that dropsync is handling?
I often do not have wifi while Im reading, so a simple dropbox login that does not sync my files to the local sd card is useless to me.
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You need to be rooted to be able to write to the extsd card. I am running both on kitkat but I'm rooted.
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I used to auto sync photos and documents that I set up folders for on my external SD card using FolderSync. That all ended with 4.4 on my N3. It's not awful though. I moved a ton of crap and apps to external SD and my sync folders to internal SD. Samsung's My Files has full access to the external SD card and also links to FTP (what I use) and some cloud services so it's pretty easy to get files to the external SD. Set up a dual instance of My Files in multi view and you can view multiple sources at once and drag and drop between them. That includes cloud services and FTP.
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The SGN2 will probably get 50GB Dropbox for free.
How does this work on Android? On my PC there is a local folder that gets synced with Dropbox but if it works the same on Android where is the data stored if you only have 16GB on your device?
Can you get Dropbox to work with an SD Card? With a 64GB SD card I could get all my 50GB Dropbox data on there.
No, it only saves files you open. If you open a document, it's gonna cache it on the Internal memory. AFAIK there's no way of making it sync like a desktop does.
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No, it only saves files you open. If you open a document, it's gonna cache it on the Internal memory. AFAIK there's no way of making it sync like a desktop does.
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on my Htc Sensation if i take a pic it syncs that pic straight to drop box then i can delete the one on the phone.
You will need this to sync files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync
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There is a "star" option in dropbox app which allows you to get offline access to your favorite (stared) files.
So i keep there the files i really need on the go.
It doesnot save files on your device it saves it online in cloud servers of dropbox.
I have searched for the answer to this question and cannot find it, so excuse me if it has been answered somewhere else before. I have my 2013 Nexus 7 16gb and I have alot of word documents and pdfs stored on a flash drive. I also have Officesuite App installed on my tablet. However it is only reading the internal storage of the Nexus, is there anyway that I can direct it to read the flashdrive or any other app that I can download to accomplish this? I really do not want to transfer the files to my tablet as some of them are quite large and I dont want to use up the internal memory
You can use a cloud service like onedrive or Google drive so you can view it on any device.
Assuming the Office App advertises itself to open those type of files, you should be able to open them from any file manager (I use Total Commander) and you should be prompted with a list of programs capable of opening that type of file, then choose your office program....
Chainfire's Stickmount from the play store
Nexus media importer
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You should search topic "OTG Usb"
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gmfirebird said:
I have searched for the answer to this question and cannot find it, so excuse me if it has been answered somewhere else before. I have my 2013 Nexus 7 16gb and I have alot of word documents and pdfs stored on a flash drive. I also have Officesuite App installed on my tablet. However it is only reading the internal storage of the Nexus, is there anyway that I can direct it to read the flashdrive or any other app that I can download to accomplish this? I really do not want to transfer the files to my tablet as some of them are quite large and I dont want to use up the internal memory
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I personally use OneDrive/Sky drive, Google Drive, and Dropbox... Not because I need all three but because I create a huge amount of documentation and I am unorganized. You never have to actually transfer stuff this way because you just save it in a replicated folder and it shows up everywhere.
IMO, the least practical is probably OneDrive, since it is generally confusing when/if you ever access it through the web.
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Did a little research last night on why Google Play Music wasn't reading my music files on the external storage. What I've gathered is that Kit Kat isn't allowing apps to gain permission into other folders. I had to move some files around for them to actually be played in Play music. Same goes for MX Player.... It's very annoying with this work around. I understand the "security" part of not allowing apps into other folders, but Google Music?!? Come on now! It's making the SD card almost useless. And yes, I've read the theories on Google pushing their cloud services on us
I'm curious what most of you are doing? I'm not rooted as well.
You have to root and run this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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Did a little research last night on why Google Play Music wasn't reading my music files on the external storage. What I've gathered is that Kit Kat isn't allowing apps to gain permission into other folders. I had to move some files around for them to actually be played in Play music. Same goes for MX Player.... It's very annoying with this work around. I understand the "security" part of not allowing apps into other folders, but Google Music?!? Come on now! It's making the SD card almost useless. And yes, I've read the theories on Google pushing their cloud services on us
I'm curious what most of you are doing? I'm not rooted as well.
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I don't believe that that is the SD write problem, I do believe it's the .nomedia files in your music folder.
You can check to see if there are any by loading your SD card on a PC, enable viewing of ALL system files and doing a root search of the sd card for .nomedia files. Select and delete any that are found then mount the SD card in your phone and see if it can see your files again.
BTW, the read/write permissions on stock ROM is for non-stock apps. Any apps that were already installed on the phone, such as Google Play Music, have permissions to read and write to SD cards. That is why I think there might be .nomedia files on your SD card, they are not needed or essential, just used to hide files from being read by apps and programs, you can delete any and all that you find.
Hello everyone..
So I while managing pictures on my SD card, I noticed something that is making dumping/importing pictures to my PC, a nightmare.
I think I have a solution, but the app (MoveToSdcard), is giving the following message: "SD Card shares the same disk with os"
Looking at some of the file/folder structure, I think I know what's happening, but I don't know how to fix without breaking stuff.
What I'm trying to do is move all apps that will every have pictures associated with them, to the SDCard. This will allow me to export (and worry) only pictures from the SDCard and delete them like I normally would with my iPhone.
Anyone know of a way to resolve this or have a suggestion on how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Why do I want to dump my pictures? I put them on a NAS, back them up to various cloud services. I also place my none mobile photo work on this NAS an upload them as well.
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Hello everyone..
So I while managing pictures on my SD card, I noticed something that is making dumping/importing pictures to my PC, a nightmare.
I think I have a solution, but the app (MoveToSdcard), is giving the following message: "SD Card shares the same disk with os"
Looking at some of the file/folder structure, I think I know what's happening, but I don't know how to fix without breaking stuff.
What I'm trying to do is move all apps that will every have pictures associated with them, to the SDCard. This will allow me to export (and worry) only pictures from the SDCard and delete them like I normally would with my iPhone.
Anyone know of a way to resolve this or have a suggestion on how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Why do I want to dump my pictures? I put them on a NAS, back them up to various cloud services. I also place my none mobile photo work on this NAS an upload them as well.
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I'm having a hard time understanding specifically what you are trying to do. But if the end goal is back up pictures to your NAS then I suggest downloading "Sweet Home! Alfa". It will allow you to select which albums to backup and automatically do it for you based on preference (for example, I have mine setup to do it when I'm connected to my home network and plug my phone in to charge".
You can set it to automatically delete photos off you device once backed up too if you want. Managing albums can be done through the stock gallery app or through a file explorer.
Hope this helps.
BTW, /sdcard actually refers to internal storage. So if you are trying to move apps to /sdcard, that it why you are getting the error. You are telling it to move an app from internal storage to internal storage which doesn't make sense to the app
Hi Artimis! Yea. I'm sorry about how I laid out the thread. Not clear at all. Basically, there are pictures everywhere
I use several apps - Instagram, Photoshop, SquareDroid, Afterfocus, Lapse It, Viva Video, etc. Each one of these apps either place the completed edits/export in their own folder, located in the app's directory, respectively.
When I pull out the SDCard and put it into my machine to dump/export them, not all the pictures are there, because some of the pictures are in their respective app exported folders and those are on the Internal SD.
This now forces me to hunt around and hope I've located all the possible directories and pictures.
If Instead relocate the apps to the SD card, the export folders would also be there, making it one less and easy step to ensure that all possible pictures/directories are accounted for.
Make any sense? Sorry about that.
Now the app you recommended takes it to a whole other level! This is awesome! and it detects new photo directories, created anywhere on the phone or SD card! This more or less solves my whole problem! WOW! Thank you!
As for the whole SD thing, I'm confused. Not a big deal though since all pictures and videos (all big in size) taken using XCam end up on the true SDCard. All the other pictures scattered about are not large in size and I'm not concerned about it. It's just a pain to hunt them down and dump/export them.
This app you suggested though is perfect and solves my problem, and then some!
Thanks Artimis!
wouldn't it be easier to just use Dropbox's import feature or even their auto saving of pictures? Of course letting G+ save them is also a more practical solution, I use both, and would be less time consuming
Yes, I use them as well. They work well. The goal is not to move away from any of them either. The goal is to save them locally to my NAS and at the same time, recover the space back on the device/SDCard.
The program that Artimis recommended takes care of all these issues.
I'm good! Thanks!
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Whenever I try to install apps on to my SD card it says "SDcard share the same disk with os" and won't let me transfer apps.
Tyfighter98 said:
Whenever I try to install apps on to my SD card it says "SDcard share the same disk with os" and won't let me transfer apps.
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Does your phone actually have an sdcard in it (it would show up as something like /external_SD through the file system). As I mentioned before, /sdcard actually refers to the phones internal storage. It is a symlinked directory that emulates an sdcard but is mapped to /data/media.
So you will get this error with an app trying to move something from /data/app to /sdcard because it is actually trying to move it to /data/media/.. which doesn't do any good.
If you do have an actual external sdcard (/external_SD) then the problem could be due to the write protection changes implemented in kit kat. There are threads on how to fix this if you are rooted.
I do I have an SD card in my tablet and I supposedly already did an SD card fix for Kit Kat but I will look into it thanks.
i have micromax canvas juice 2 .... i inserted 16gb sd card but iam not able to move apps to my sd card ..... please help me
So how to make it understand I have to sent it to ad card and read data from there..
So i was really excited about getting the new Nexus 5X until I found out it was missing any external storage (Micro SD). Sadly this seems to be what is happening on all the new phones. So my technical question is: can I use some sort of cloud storage that is as transparent to my android apps as when I have the file (music/audiobooks/whatever) stored on a Micro SD card in my current phone? Is there a storage app that becomes just another folder that any app can access?
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So i was really excited about getting the new Nexus 5X until I found out it was missing any external storage (Micro SD). Sadly this seems to be what is happening on all the new phones. So my technical question is: can I use some sort of cloud storage that is as transparent to my android apps as when I have the file (music/audiobooks/whatever) stored on a Micro SD card in my current phone? Is there a storage app that becomes just another folder that any app can access?
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no surprise here, Nexus never has microsd cards. I find it funny that one of the marshmallow features of using sd cards to install apps can't even be used on their nexus phones. You can use cloud to store stuff however I don't think it will work in the way you wish. You can't store apps/app data externally to the cloud. Even the new cloud phone has to download the app before it works.
You can use cloud storage like dropbox or one drive with an additional app to do what you want. The apps are called DropSync for Drop Box and OneSync for One Drive. They might have one for Google Drive as well.
Those apps will take a local folder and sync its contents to the cloud. Anything you save to the folder is automatically synced. It does use local storage though so you will not gain extra space doing that which seems to be what you want.