I looked around and cannot find the answer to this. I gave my Vibrant to a friend who takes a lot of pictures with it. He has downloaded a few different photo apps and some of them ended up filling the main system storage of the phone with photos. When I looked into it, some of the apps had placed the storage folder under the root directory and not in the Internal Storage or the External SD card. I looked in the apps and they do not have an option to move where the images are stored. The phone is running bionix-v-1.3.1 (just found it to be the most stable for my friend). One of the main apps that is doing this is FxCamera as the storage folder is at: /FxCamera.
So my question is, can I move this folder using symbolic links or another way? I attempted to make a symbolic link but it said I could not create it. I have a feeling I am not mounting correctly or have the wrong symbolic link. (or this just cannot be done). Maybe I should do it via a terminal window but not sure of the commands here as my Linux experience is somewhat limited.
One last note, what I would really like is to get all these photos moved into the DCIM folder on the SD so his Dropbox Upload will automatically upload them.
Thank you for any help!
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Since I have 4g, I have taken to downloading straight to the phone...It's actually faster then my home internet most of the time. But by default, in Chrome and elsewhere, the download folder is on the internal SD card. Then I have to copy it over to the external SD to flash it. Is that necessary? And, if it is, does anyone know how to make the default Downloads folder exist on the external card?
Thanks in advance!
I looked in the past and couldn't find a solution. I don't think there's a way at this time.
Sheldor1967 said:
Searched and can't find an answer to this.
Since I have 4g, I have taken to downloading straight to the phone...It's actually faster then my home internet most of the time. But by default, in Chrome and elsewhere, the download folder is on the internal SD card. Then I have to copy it over to the external SD to flash it. Is that necessary? And, if it is, does anyone know how to make the default Downloads folder exist on the external card?
Thanks in advance!
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You might be able to make a symlink from the internal downloads folder to your SD downloads folder so that Chrome will be redirected to you SD downloads.
I'm not sure how to make a symlink in Android though.
(The /sdcard/ext_sdcard folder is actually a symlink to /sdcard2. You can test it by unmounting your SD card and saving a file to /sdcard/ext_sdcard.)
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You might be able to make a symlink from the internal downloads folder to your SD downloads folder so that Chrome will be redirected to you SD downloads.
I'm not sure how to make a symlink in Android though.
(The /sdcard/ext_sdcard folder is actually a symlink to /sdcard2. You can test it by unmounting your SD card and saving a file to /sdcard/ext_sdcard.)
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Something to research, Thanks!
If you're still looking into this I believe this thread may help. It is essentially the same thing just for Google Play Music.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785245
Obviously the locations just need to be changed to your downloads folder and then set to run on boot. Either through init.d or Script Manager.
Hi, I'm a total noob to Android phones, I admit it. I just got my first smartphone, and it's an old one - an HTC Aria. Thanks to a lot of info here in XDA-developers, I got it rooted with clockwork mod and am using the Cyanogen ROM with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Well, it's such an old phone, I see that it only has ~185 mb internal storage. I added an 8GB SD card. Even though I move my apps to external storage, I can see that the data didn't get moved and is still quickly eating up all the phone's internal storage. I'm trying to use Madmack's "FolderMount" but am having trouble figuring it out. I think it might be an understanding of Android file/folder structure (I have very little). I'm considering buying the "pro" version (if it works for me), just so I can move the whole data folder at once and free up my internal memory again.
Here's my efforts at testing to see if it works. I'm trying to move the data from the "Plague, Inc." game to the external card (the app is already on the external card). So, when I choose source, it automatically starts me in the /mnt/sdcard/ but doesn't allow me to go "up" to any further root folders of that. So I found in the "Android" folder the "data" folder. I tried to FolderMount that but it gave me the error about the non-Pro version. So I tried the "com.miniclip.plagueinc" folder (knowing that it's currently using 15MB of data) and then using an app called SDCardManager (which I understand is supposed to make it easier for me to access my SD Card, like Windows Explorer or something), I made a folder with this path "/mnt/sdcard/foldermount" I think it should be the right path because it's also where my "android.tether" folder is that I know I created myself.
Anyway, when I pair those two folders in FolderMount, it copies stuff over, and the pin looks green, but it shows my internal memory hasn't changed, still almost entirely full. So what do I do to clear it up? I think my problem is in my understanding of the Android's file structure. I think on "source", I should be able to access some folder before "/mnt/sdcard", but I can't get there. Please give this noob help from anyone who can! Thanks!
Can anyone help me with this? Particularly the developer, madmack? I really need to find a way to move the app data to the external memory so I can clear up space. Even if someone could help me understand the file structure better, that'd be helpful. Thanks!
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When I use our pc to look at our nabi2 through the data cable, I cant find the folder that the apps are located on the sdcard. Also the size of data within the sdcard folder doesnt seem large enough, so Im assuming the nabi2 stores apps in a folder on the internal sdcard that is somehow hidden from view.
Does anyone please know the location (and path) of this folder and also how it can be seen??
Thanks ever so much for any help or reading my post.
Alex
Please help me i've tried everithing...
I have a very large stash of pics that I kieep in Hide it pro app. I've set the app to unhide to a folder and them move that folder to the pc. when I tryed to open the folder on the PC I saw that there was only one photo inside (the first one) all the other 200 where lost.
I've run to the vault directory of hide it pro and there were the files, try to copy them and it was impossible, so I reboot the phone and the files were gone. GONE!
Now I've try to recover them with disk digger and other recovery software without any luck. If I could I would made a complete backup of the phone internal memory and them mount it has a drive and simply use recuva to get the files. But the process is to hard to understand and I can't see to know how to copy all content using adb not to the sd card but to the PC. My sd card is smaller than the internal memory so it'll not be able to acomodate a raw file from that size (64gb).
Any ideas? I believe that the files are simply lost on a regular hard drive or sd card it'll be easy but on the phone internal memory is a hell of a problem to get them out. Note that I must find the photos that are now archives with a changed name, hide it pro changes the file name...
please help.. thank you
Usually two or three people a week post about deleted files, search and read for hundreds of examples. It is possible to dump a raw file with ADB but you're trying to unscramble eggs.
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So i've found a bunch of apps that after getting the phone rooted can move games' data to the external SD; FolderMount seems to be the best one and i've been using it- however,it doesn't seem to be able to move any folder inside the /data/data folder! i've done a quick google search and the only relevant result was another link on these forums. Is there any other more simple way to do that? if not,is that thread still relevant?