Have downloaded some videos onto the phone via kies but some of them have transferred badly. After an age of looking I have absolutely no idea how to delete them.
They don't appear in the files folder, you cannot tap and hold to delete, and there is no delete option on the video. Does anyone know how I can get rid of these videos.
Thanks
If you know the location open via My Files menu and delete .
Or use USB mass storage mode and delete via PC .
If you dont know the location check where Kies put them .
jje
Thanks
Gone into my files and there is nothing in there at all.
Cannot see anywhere on Kies to show me where it has put them
Gone into the USB mass storage mode when you plug into the PC and again you get the same folders as on the phone and all are blank
This is a major screw up by samsung if you can't just select a video and delete it as I am struggling here. Are there any apps out there to find these files?
I ran into the same problem yesterday and I couldn't figure it out!
I don't actually understand the 'file structure' on this phone. Where is everything stored?
When I connect my phone to the PC, I get two distinct drives, H: and F:
From what I can see the INTERNAL phone memory (which comes up as H: on the PC), is located at /mnt/sdcard.
What is the 'external_sd' folder that's located at /mnt/sdcard/external_sd actually for? It doesnt seem to correspond to the sdcard that's in the phone.
How to I access the sd card mamory from file manager within the phone?
I've tried looking for the videos I recorded using ES File Manager, but I cant find them anywhere...
Glad I am not alone with this one. Samsung need to sort it quick. At the moment I am wondering do you fill up the internal card and thats it because you cannot delete the videos?
external_sd is a link to whatever memory card you put in, it seems weird to me as well. In astro under tools - sd card usage this gives a treesize type view which might help track down your missing files.
downloaded astro file manager and done a search on the file name and has come upp with
/mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera/*****
**** being the file name
I then press and hold and on the menu that opens select show directory and there they all are. I then press the multi icon and was then allowed to select the file and delete it.
Thank goodness for that!!!!!!
Thanks for the help
In fact I now go into the files folder in the applications screens, then DCIM and now a camera folder is there with them all in. That was not there before but is now after installing and searching with Astro file manager
Max Damage said:
downloaded astro file manager and done a search on the file name and has come upp with
/mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera/*****
**** being the file name
I then press and hold and on the menu that opens select show directory and there they all are. I then press the multi icon and was then allowed to select the file and delete it.
Thank goodness for that!!!!!!
Thanks for the help
In fact I now go into the files folder in the applications screens, then DCIM and now a camera folder is there with them all in. That was not there before but is now after installing and searching with Astro file manager
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The sdcard/DCIM/Camera folder is where the pictures and videos taken with the camera go to, if it wasn't there before, I assume you've never taken a picture or recorded a video before.
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These videos came from Kies and they were nowhere to be seen until I downloaded astro file manager. What is strange now is the DCIM folder says 0 as though it is empty but it is now full of these videos from Kies when you open it. All very strange and it only appeared after I did the search. before it there was nothing even in astro file manager.
I did take 2 photos the other day and again they have suddenly appeared in this folder
mark2222 said:
external_sd is a link to whatever memory card you put in, it seems weird to me as well. In astro under tools - sd card usage this gives a treesize type view which might help track down your missing files.
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Thanks for that. That's what I thought, but the first time I tested it it didn't work, I just tried again and it worked just fine. I put a file onto the sdcard and it appeared in the external_sd folder.
One other question, /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard both seem to point to the internal memory. Is there a reason it's listed twice?
mark2222 said:
external_sd is a link to whatever memory card you put in, it seems weird to me as well. In astro under tools - sd card usage this gives a treesize type view which might help track down your missing files.
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Thanks for that. That's what I thought, but the first time I tested it it didn't work, I just tried again and it worked just fine. I put a file onto the sdcard and it appeared in the external_sd folder.
One other question, /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard both seem to point to the internal memory. Is there a reason it's listed twice?
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Today I found that the contents of my SDCARD (internal) was deleted. It doesn't look like the SDCARD was formatted because 1 or 2 files were still left behind.
I don't know if this was what triggered the delete but this is what I did prior to it happening:
In Settings I unmounted the 32 GB micro-sd card. The alert said it was safe to remove the card.
I ejected the card.
I reinserted the card. The G-Tablet did not detect it.
I powered down the G-Tablet and then powered up.
The external card was now detected ad I found that I lost the contents of the internal card.
I am using update 3389 with the Enhancement Pack v1.
This is not good.
Was it just media files? If so, then this is a known issue (with stock, as well as mods like TnT Lite and VEGAn).
roebeet said:
Was it just media files? If so, then this is a known issue (with stock, as well as mods like TnT Lite and VEGAn).
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The DCIM folder was deleted. I also had a folder named "download" in which I had several PDFs and a subfolder with APK files. The xScope folder (with Cache, downloads and Themes) was deleted along with a few more that I do not remember their names.
Fuzzy John said:
Today I found that the contents of my SDCARD (internal) was deleted. It doesn't look like the SDCARD was formatted because 1 or 2 files were still left behind.
I don't know if this was what triggered the delete but this is what I did prior to it happening:
In Settings I unmounted the 32 GB micro-sd card. The alert said it was safe to remove the card.
I ejected the card.
I reinserted the card. The G-Tablet did not detect it.
I powered down the G-Tablet and then powered up.
The external card was now detected ad I found that I lost the contents of the internal card.
I am using update 3389 with the Enhancement Pack v1.
This is not good.
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This actually happened to me as well... i lost all of my photos and media files, as well as everything in my download folder...
roebeet said:
Was it just media files? If so, then this is a known issue (with stock, as well as mods like TnT Lite and VEGAn).
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I have been searching the forums looking for a fix for this and I haven't been able to find one. Tried to search the forums with an advanced search from Google as well, no lock. This is an old thread, but is there any update to this? Running Vegan 5.11, Pershoot kernal. I had a bunch of pictures and video that were deleted, but the folders/containers they were in were not deleted. Thanks in advance for any help.
add an empty file in root sdcard2 called .nomedia
thanks for that, will give it a try and will let you knwo if it works.
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add an empty file in root sdcard2 called .nomedia
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Does this work for both SDCARD and SDCARD2?
Thanks
so...
So did this .nomedia fix work for everyone? I am trying this now.
gauz316 said:
So did this .nomedia fix work for everyone? I am trying this now.
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Yes, worked for me. Running Vegan 5.1
When you apply this file everything is supposed to stay and not be deleted right?
I installed VEGAn-TAB 7.0 and had the same problem with media files disappearing (.mp4 video files and .jpg files). Happened when I deleted one file from the internal storage (memory). Next time I came in to the Videos folder on the internal storage everything was gone. Another time happened after I unmounted and removed my external micro SD Card 16gb. Also had the same thing happen with media files disappearing from the external micro SD Card. Very frustrating. Finally put all those elusive media files on my trusty 8gb Transcend Flash Drive and lo and behold, everything worked fine and I could play all those videos, remove the USB drive and when next inserted everything was okay. For whatever reason, the USB flash drive works far better and more safely than the micro SD card. Plugged the USB flash drive into my USB 2.0 4-port hub along with the USB keyboard and USB mouse.
i am seeing conflicting fixes.
some people say to make a file named .nomedia in the root of the sdcard2
other people say to make a folder named .nomedia and put all your files inside.
the 3rd fix i see is to make a .nomedia file in each directory that contains media
which is the correct method.
thank you.
Dave
Fbn02 said:
i am seeing conflicting fixes.
some people say to make a file named .nomedia in the root of the sdcard2
other people say to make a folder named .nomedia and put all your files inside.
the 3rd fix i see is to make a .nomedia file in each directory that contains media
which is the correct method.
thank you.
Dave
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ive tried all 3 of the above, along with the market app rescan media root....all with no luck. my 32gb sd card is worthless right now?
any solid working fixes?
brad08stanggt said:
ive tried all 3 of the above, along with the market app rescan media root....all with no luck. my 32gb sd card is worthless right now?
any solid working fixes?
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how did you make the file? if you are using windows to create the file over usb, it automatically adds .txt to the end. i suggest making it through a file manager on the tablet.
i have not tried this yet, i will when i get home.
Dave
Fbn02 said:
how did you make the file? if you are using windows to create the file over usb, it automatically adds .txt to the end. i suggest making it through a file manager on the tablet.
i have not tried this yet, i will when i get home.
Dave
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i used notepad but i enabled "show known file extensions" and made sure its a .nomedia file. Even windows sees it as a .nomedia file.
I will try to make it from the tablet and see if that helps.
Thanks,
brad08stanggt said:
i used notepad but i enabled "show known file extensions" and made sure its a .nomedia file. Even windows sees it as a .nomedia file.
I will try to make it from the tablet and see if that helps.
Thanks,
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creating the .nomedia folder with ifilemanager worked. I created the folder then moved the files to the SDcard. I have rebooted numerous times and the files are still there. Previously they would have been deleted.
Thanks.
cool i will try it when i get home. did you put it in the root or in each directory.
Dave
My problem is apps being deleted and not media.
I hope this thread isn't getting too old. So I am having similar issues with files being deleted periodically after some reboots, the only difference is that the majority of the time they are apps and no longer media.
Specs:
-Running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 stable
-I have created .nomedia file and placed on root of SD (no file extension)
-I use Apps2SD Pro to move apps to sd card
-When I notice that an app no longer appears in my tray after a reboot, i will reinstall from the market and before the install it will tell me that "this will replace an existing version already installed" which leads me to believe that the app is still there just not accessible.
There were a few instances where some of my ebooks and pdf's were being deleted, but that stopped after I placed the .nomedia file on the SD, but dont seem to see any change regarding deleted apps.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
i put a 32 gb micro card in the tab after loading about 2gb of music on it, it found the card then only recognized about ten files while either deleting or replacing the remaining files with numbered files that come up as unreadable format. i have placed a folder labeled no media but that seems not to work. even sent it back to viewsonic and they reset it to factory ( i did that also) sent it back and it stil does it . any suggestions would be appreciated. its a stock gtab no mods
This is a known issue on some mods, although I didn't know stock also suffered from this problem. You need to create a file named ".nomedia" and place it in either the root directory, or the directory where you store your media. Note that you cannot create this file in Windows. Mac or linux may be able to, but the easiest way is to use a file explorer like ES File explorer, which has the ability to create a file.
thanks for the tip
i will give it a try and let you know what happened,
nope not working
tried as you advised , made a .nomedia file reloaded the sd card put it in wanting the world and the same thing happened. all but a few files were left and then there were 20 to 30 numbered files where there used to be mp3 folders.plus if i select one of these files it says unable to open this file type
Hello,
I bought my Galaxy S II a few days ago. One of the first things I did was rooting it. Then I proceeded to install some apps, and getting my music on the phone. I downloaded Winamp Pro, since I use Winamp on my computer. So I copied my music folder to an external SD card (I have 6,1 GB of music, and I don't want it on the internal memory). The folder structure is a Music folder with bands, and inside the folder I have another folder called Soundtrack, for, well, my soundtracks.
So I putted the folder on the SD (since Winamp wasn't syncing with my device), and it worked great. Then I installed some more apps, and for an unknown reason, my SD became corrupted, so I formated it, and put the musics on it again. But since them the music aren't being recognized. After the format, Winamp found the device, and I used it to transfer the musics. But halfway trough I realized that he as putting the artists and albums in different folders, so I stopped it, and deleted the folders. I put the musics manually, but every time I opened Winamp, or the stock music player, It was only seeing the musics that were on the folders before I deleted them, and also it was showing a Samsung album and a (I think it's was this name) sound album. I them installed CF-Root kernel trough Mobile ODIN, and flashed MIUI through CWM. The MIUI player was having the same problems.
Now, I searched a lot, here and on Google, but nothing worked. I tried:
Putting the musics on the internal Music folder
Searching for a .nomedia folder
Searching by folder (The musics are there, but when I select any of them they don't play)
Filter by Folder on MIUI player (There's no folders to thick, it just shows a pop-up asking to select folders, and an Ok and Cancel button)
Rescan, trough a Media Scanning App
Selecting another folder on MIUI player (Can't do that either. The first time I opened the folder view, there was a list of musics, but it disappeared after a second.)
Changing the folder name
Clearing the data and cache for both apps (Winamp and MIUI)
And I restarted the phone after every single procedure
I think I didn't forget anything.
But anyway, that's it. I have music in both folder (internal and external SD) now, and none of the Players are recognizing the music.
So what I have to do?
Thanks,
Hexagono.
Try with a single file first make sure it is a MP3 that actually plays .
Put it on the phone via cut and paste to internal sd card ..
Open My Files app navigate to that MP3 and open it ..
Check MIU actually has a working music player .
That fails i would wipe phone and flash stock firmware .
jje
JJEgan said:
Try with a single file first make sure it is a MP3 that actually plays .
Put it on the phone via cut and paste to internal sd card ..
Open My Files app navigate to that MP3 and open it ..
Check MIU actually has a working music player .
That fails i would wipe phone and flash stock firmware .
jje
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Ok.
I put a single music on the root of the internal Music folder.
Winamp, not recognized it. But it played the song when I chose it by Folder. (And didn1t display the album art (which happens every time I chose something by folder))
MIUI Player, didn't recognize it, an it didn't display on the folders view (Which, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't have an option to browse trough the folders.)
MIUI File Explorer crashes on opening.
So, flashing stock? Or I can re-flash MIUI?
Hexagono said:
Ok.
I put a single music on the root of the internal Music folder.
Winamp, not recognized it. But it played the song when I chose it by Folder. (And didn1t display the album art (which happens every time I chose something by folder))
MIUI Player, didn't recognize it, an it didn't display on the folders view (Which, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't have an option to browse trough the folders.)
MIUI File Explorer crashes on opening.
So, flashing stock? Or I can re-flash MIUI?
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This REALLY sounds like you either have a .nomedia file floating around, or need to format your internal memory (aka USB Storage), as it may have corrupt memory sectors. I'd copy everything from internal memory (/sdcard), format your USB storage, copy it back. If it's still doing this, scour your files for a .nomedia file more carefully.
ctomgee said:
This REALLY sounds like you either have a .nomedia file floating around, or need to format your internal memory (aka USB Storage), as it may have corrupt memory sectors. I'd copy everything from internal memory (/sdcard), format your USB storage, copy it back. If it's still doing this, scour your files for a .nomedia file more carefully.
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Thanks.
I search for .nomedia, and found some, but that didn't solved the problem.
So I copied everything and formates. This time I decided to try something else, and I putted the musics on /external_sd, which worked.
So that kinda solves my problem. The only thing is that I want the music on my SD, not on the internal (I putted two songs. One in external_sd and another on the I: drive (Which is my SD drive). Only the one on external_sd showed up).
But thanks anyway. At least I'm able to listen to music now.
Hexagono said:
Thanks.
I search for .nomedia, and found some, but that didn't solved the problem.
So I copied everything and formates. This time I decided to try something else, and I putted the musics on /external_sd, which worked.
So that kinda solves my problem. The only thing is that I want the music on my SD, not on the internal (I putted two songs. One in external_sd and another on the I: drive (Which is my SD drive). Only the one on external_sd showed up).
But thanks anyway. At least I'm able to listen to music now.
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Seems you're confused.
/sdcard/external_sd is the sd card you plug in.
/sdcard is the phone's "internal" memory. It is what is left of the included 16gb of the phone memory after System memory, App space, and the OS.
ctomgee said:
Seems you're confused.
/sdcard/external_sd is the sd card you plug in.
/sdcard is the phone's "internal" memory. It is what is left of the included 16gb of the phone memory after System memory, App space, and the OS.
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But the files I put on /external_sd doesn't show up at the I: drive.
And also, I take my words back. With one song it recognized. but with the whole library not.
EDIT: More test, more strange.
So I've putted 3 songs. One I put in I:/Music and one I put in H:/external_sd/Music, and one on both.
The song I've putted on both get recognized, it plays, and show the album art. The one in external_sd, virtually exact like the one I but in both (the only notable difference is that the bit rate of this one is 3 less than to one on both) is recognized, but it don't play (MIUI says that the file type is not supported, and the file type is the same as the one i put in both) and doesn't show the album art. The one I've putted only on I:/Music, does not show up.
EDIT 2: This is creepy.
So now I put the song that wasn't working in I:/Music and it magically works. And the one I've putted only on I:/Music, still does not show up.
Hexagono said:
But the files I put on ?external_sd doesn't show up at the I: drive.
And also, I take my words back. With one song it recognized. but with the whole library not.
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The letter "I:" means nothing to me; on my current computer, my phone maps to "E:" and "G:". ("F:" is already taken by a network drive)
/sdcard and /sdcard/external_sd both map to drive letters. Is "I:" the first one, or second one mapped when you plug your phone in and turn on USB storage mode?
If it's the first one, then "I:" will be /sdcard. If it's the second one, then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
So if your drives map to "I:" and "J:", then "I:" will be /sdcard. But if they map to "H:" and "I:", then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
Make sense?
EDIT: I see what you're doing. You're putting stuff in H:/external_sd. Don't do that. I: is your external_sd
ctomgee said:
The letter "I:" means nothing to me; on my current computer, my phone maps to "E:" and "G:". ("F:" is already taken by a network drive)
/sdcard and /sdcard/external_sd both map to drive letters. Is "I:" the first one, or second one mapped when you plug your phone in and turn on USB storage mode?
If it's the first one, then "I:" will be /sdcard. If it's the second one, then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
So if your drives map to "I:" and "J:", then "I:" will be /sdcard. But if they map to "H:" and "I:", then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
Make sense?
EDIT: I see what you're doing. You're putting stuff in H:/external_sd. Don't do that. I: is your external_sd
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That is correct. H: is internal, and I: is SD card.
But as you can see, the music apparently only works if the file is both on the H:/external_sd/Music folder AND the I:/Music folder.
Hexagono said:
That is correct. H: is internal, and I: is SD card.
But as you can see, the music apparently only works if the file is both on the H:/external_sd/Music folder AND the I:/Music folder.
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No offense, but I can't see. This is happening on your phone. I have 8 gb of mp3 files on my external sd card, and they're only in one place. And I happily listen to them just fine, with album art and everything. So I'm not quite sure what is happening on your phone.
EDIT: for example; E: for me is internal memory, and G: is the external sd card.
E:/external_sd is COMPLETELY BLANK for me. It says there is nothing in there.
G:/music has all my mp3s.
So I'm not sure what is going on with your phone, but this is how it should work.
For you, H:/external_sd is intended to be a virtual mapping. You shouldn't be dropping files in there. Any files you want on the external sd card should be going into I:
ctomgee said:
No offense, but I can't see. This is happening on your phone. I have 8 gb of mp3 files on my external sd card, and they're only in one place. And I happily listen to them just fine, with album art and everything. So I'm not quite sure what is happening on your phone.
EDIT: for example; E: for me is internal memory, and G: is the external sd card.
E:/external_sd is COMPLETELY BLANK for me. It says there is nothing in there.
G:/music has all my mp3s.
So I'm not sure what is going on with your phone, but this is how it should work.
For you, H:/external_sd is intended to be a virtual mapping. You shouldn't be dropping files in there. Any files you want on the external sd card should be going into I:
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Yeah. Thanks anyway.
And I expected that it should be a virtual mapping. When I use Super Manager (Since Root Explorer crashes) to go trough the folders, when I go to external_sd it goes to the external SD and I can see the files there. It makes absolutely no sense that the music players aren't seeing the files.
EDIT:
So I downloaded PowerAmp, and it recognizes the music. The problem is with MIUI Player, and Winamp.
EDIT 2:
So I woke up this morning, after putting the rest of the music, and re-scanned with Power Amp. Them, everything worked. -.-
There's a problem with the ID tag (Some music from the same albums are showing as a different album) and the album art is really low quality. But I can listen to music now!
Thanks to ctomgee and JJEgan.
I've got a few films on my phone which play fine. But some won't show up on the pc as being on my phones sd card when I look at the folder. From what I can see the file types are the same as the ones that do show up.
I also have the problem that when I go to delete some files (some. Video some apk) they don't delete. It doesn't say there was a problem deleting them and the file size is 0 but the file name still shows. So they do not show up on pc do I delete them in the phone but they still show.
Hope this makes sense
Anyone?
Double post.
Don't know this could help
I have ever got this experience. I accidentally renamed some file(data) in phone Sd like original file name is "xxxx" to " .xxxx" after renamed I couldn't see that file from phone Sd even via PC(when usb connected) but I knew it still in Sd because it took lot of my internal Sd Space. I tried install root explorer app(your phone need rooted) and got into sd again now I could see that file then I could delete it successfully.
ive just tried to put a music track in a folder thats in my music folder in ext sd but its only showing a handfull of the folders.
so say i try to make a new folder and name it the same as the one im trying to put it in e.g "live" the folder wont rename . but i can rename it with a new name.
this is really winding me up
just noticed none of the things show up if i look vie kies either
a workable solution.....connect your SD to your PC via USB or SD slot....copy all SD content onto the PC....format the SD.....move it back to the phone....connect the phone to the PC via USB......move back the content to the SD
unmounted my sd , put it in my card reader , but my card reader must be faulty . put the sd back in the phone and all the files are showing up again lol
thanks for your help, i should have thought of that really
On my new M8 I put the SD card I used in my galaxy s4 in and it doesn't seem to like several of the folders. The new phone will recognize some files but on other files it has a dot and then a number at the end and it won't show me the contents or allow those files to be accessible. So the mp3's better in those files don't show up in the player. This seems really strange to me that it doesn't read files that are just fine on the card. Can someone help me please.
by the way I had to download an manager in order to even see the files and folders on the phone, is there no folder navigation option built-in to this phone?
copy off sdcard to computer and format the sdcard and create new folders, why would it seem strange samsung uses a different file structure than htc....
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On my new M8 I put the SD card I used in my galaxy s4 in and it doesn't seem to like several of the folders. The new phone will recognize some files but on other files it has a dot and then a number at the end and it won't show me the contents or allow those files to be accessible. So the mp3's better in those files don't show up in the player. This seems really strange to me that it doesn't read files that are just fine on the card. Can someone help me please.
by the way I had to download an manager in order to even see the files and folders on the phone, is there no folder navigation option built-in to this phone?
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artofdesign said:
On my new M8 I put the SD card I used in my galaxy s4 in and it doesn't seem to like several of the folders. The new phone will recognize some files but on other files it has a dot and then a number at the end and it won't show me the contents or allow those files to be accessible. So the mp3's better in those files don't show up in the player. This seems really strange to me that it doesn't read files that are just fine on the card. Can someone help me please.
by the way I had to download an manager in order to even see the files and folders on the phone, is there no folder navigation option built-in to this phone?
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there is no built in file explorer, you can download es or root explorer but they may not be able to write to the sd card without root (i'm not sure as my phone is rooted...)
Thanks guys. I followed your recommendation and copied what I needed. Reformatted. Then added files. Seems good now.