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.
droidmyworld said:
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..
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I have 10MB on my device. I keep all photos and videos on my storage card so I'm wondering if the rom has accumulated temps files, email, or other things that I could remove.
Any suggestions are welcome.
l0lcats said:
I have 10MB on my device. I keep all photos and videos on my storage card so I'm wondering if the rom has accumulated temps files, email, or other things that I could remove.
Any suggestions are welcome.
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do you install all your programs on your phone or your storage card. most programs will work fine if they are installed on the storage card.
l0lcats said:
I have 10MB on my device. I keep all photos and videos on my storage card so I'm wondering if the rom has accumulated temps files, email, or other things that I could remove.
Any suggestions are welcome.
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I would first delete all old text, mms, emails, call list, missed call list , then go into the deleted item folders for each one of those and delete those also, because when you delete messages( sms,mms,email ) they move to the deleted items folders. check my documents for old files /stuff you don't need anymore, move any pics , music , from device to storage card. Second you can use sktools to autoclean the phone's cache's and cookies, it removes bad shortcuts and temp folders. Now I'm not saying you'll get mayor space, but those things help quite a bit.
Also reinstall programs to SD card the only things you want on device mem is startup programs "so programs that launch on bootup" & i'd do the same with media player to take load off storage card.
stylez said:
Also reinstall programs to SD card the only things you want on device mem is startup programs "so programs that launch on bootup" & i'd do the same with media player to take load off storage card.
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lolcats, you heard it from the man
stylez said:
Also reinstall programs to SD card the only things you want on device mem is startup programs "so programs that launch on bootup" & i'd do the same with media player to take load off storage card.
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Cool, thanks for the replies. I'd say just about the only media players installed on the device are what came with the ROM. I cleared out all of the old MMS messages and texts. I don't really do email on the phone because I don't have internet on my plan. I do need to check that though. I've used my wifi to get email before I'm sure...yay sktools lol
Hi
I'm looking for some way to store the onenote files in the storage card instead of \Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile.
I looked in the registry but didn't find the setting or something that helps me
Anybody here has any solutions?
Is there a solution to this? My Onenotes are filling up the small 219MB of main memory and I'm getting memory full message on phone. Plenty of space on storage card, how can OneNote use storage card space instead of main memory?
cant you guys just copy the files in File Explorer and make a OneNote folder in the Storage card root? I don't know how you can have them saved on SD card by default, but I don't think copying them to the card is a big deal after you write a new note.
I'm using the HTC supplied WM6.5 and the OneNote Mobile offers no options to open files anywhere but the main memory. One can copy the notes to SD card to make space, but there is no way OneNote mobile can open them from that source even using file explorer and choosing OneNote as program to open file. It appears a limitation of OneNote.
I've asked HTC for their opinion, siince they sold the phone with OneNote and a small main memory size. No reply so far.
Got a reply from HTC who suggest a hard reset and not a mention of Microsoft or OneNote Mobile! Wtf, thanks.
Wow that's pretty messed up. Why on Earth would they suggest a hard reset? Sounds like the person you spoke with has no idea what it is that you're looking to do. I hope you find a solution to your query.
I don't know of this helps, but I use the "Notes" app located within Outlook. There you can set the program to save notes to the SD card and it saves a lot of room. I don't know if your current program is needed for your particular needs, but maybe you could try it?
Actually I replied to HTC and told them I did the hard reset and it didn't work. (I didn't actually do it as I know its a waste of time!). They are looking at it further and I'm waiting on reply with ticket still unclosed on my support question.
Basically I'm trying to get them to agree OneNote isn't suited to their phone which they have sold me and see what they respond with. Still waiting
I have writen down the solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11100039#post11100039, hope it can make some helps.
dmc_universe said:
I have writen down the solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11100039#post11100039, hope it can make some helps.
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This looks good for saving attachments to OneNote on SD card and works, thanks.
is there any way to better organize the sd card? android was set up to simply dump all app data to the sd card. sometimes apps allow you to set the directory used for saving data, but the vast majority do not. i was wondering if there was a way to dump all app data into a single folder, and have all future app data saves default to that folder. this way i could have something like this:
music
videos
images
backups
app data
as my directory structure. perhaps partitioning the card would allow something like this effectively? that's not the ideal solution for obvious reasons, but i really dislike how everything is thrown together which makes it hard for me to find what i'm looking for. anyone look into this before?
I'm no developer but because some apps write their own directory by default i think it would be difficult. I think all the apps you use would need to be modified. Although some allow you to choose, most dont
Thats actually a great idea, were working on something like that now, so far is only able to clean temp Files from left behind but the next step is file organization and removing duplicate floders
Just Incredible
Does anyone know how to stop this file, located in dcim/thumbnails, from existing? Just keeps getting bigger and eating up my SD card!!!
LT15i ICS with root
Those are the thumbnails from the gallery, and for every picture or video you take or add to your phone, a thumbnail will be generated.
I don't think there's a way to disable them, if you could you wouldn't see any thumbnails in your gallery. Doesn't seem handy to me
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Sorry, misunderstood you..
I guess the thumbdata is still a part of the gallery, seems like a database to me, so the gallery knows where it can find its thumbnails
Thing is, I transfer my photos off regularly and then delete them off phone yet when I delete thumb data, it comes back at me! Currently stands at around 500mb....
LT15i ICS with root
500 mb is alot
I have two thumbdata files, both 55 mb and i have alot of photos on the device.
Do you have pictures elsewhere on your sd card, like album pictures, or pictures from a game, that might be the culprit?
Will check it out....
LT15i ICS with root
Have the same problem. It just doesn't make sense, the .thumbdata file sizes are lot bigger than the media themselves.
I've tried to disable write permissions with root browser (I've read that trick herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318827), it does stop the two thumbdata files for getting bigger. Their sizes actually never changed. But unfortunately, it messed up my gallery preview.
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it's a common issue with ICS, i have S2 and my thumbdata is over 1GB
yes, we know
boyob32 said:
Does anyone know how to stop this file, located in DCIM/thumbnails/, from existing? Just keeps getting bigger and eating up my SD card!
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Just copy that file's name, delete that file (thumbdata--), then create folder named the same as deleted file. Reboot device. No annoying thumbdata3 anymore! And look in folders named LOST.DIR (you can find it in the root directory of your internal memory and your SDcard) - huge temporary files may be left in these folders, so delete these files.
Tested on Toshiba Thrive Tablet (ICS).
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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The one thing I was afraid I was gonna have to do...
Meow You. said:
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.