Need help transferring everything off one memory card to another - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I need help I have a note4 and I'm trying to take the stuff off my 32gb card and put it on a 64gb or 128gb but the problem is all the folders are transferring over to the other card but there are no files in most of the folders and even when I try to just transfer the files into the empty folder they show out but when I exit out of the folder and go back into it the folder is empty again can some please tell me how to transfer all my stuff (I've tried it with 4 different cards and the same results)
Now this is the steps I used
-took 32gb out of phone put into adapter
-took all copied all info onto my laptop (all folders in files are there)
-put new card into adapter
-transfer stuff from laptop onto new card from laptop (all folders some most files aren't in folder)
Please tell me the proper way to do this?

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Question regarding Backing up HD2 SD card

I'm wanting to backup & format my SD card following a problem with Sense not loading described in another thread. Having read various threads about this problem it seems that some, if not all, revolve around issues with the SD card.
Through File Explorer, on the phone, I've selected ''Show all Files'' from within my SD card directory. However after connecting my phone to my PC thru active sync there are some files that are visible on my phone in the SD card directory which aren't visible in the SD card folder on my PC screen. I've tried to find the show all files setting on my pc but haven't been able to.
Thing is I don't want to backup my card then format it and possibly not backup all files that are present on the card.
Any help appreciated.
Hi there,
Two days ago I copied all the files on my SD card to my laptop, changed my card from a 2Gb one to a 8Gb and copied all the files back again onto the new SD card. I never even looked for hidden files neither on the phone nor on the laptop and it all went without any problems and all is working fine.
For sake of good order, I can't guarantee it will work with you as well, but it should.
Bye,
Itamar
RoN_HD2 said:
I'm wanting to backup & format my SD card following a problem with Sense not loading described in another thread. Having read various threads about this problem it seems that some, if not all, revolve around issues with the SD card.
Through File Explorer, on the phone, I've selected ''Show all Files'' from within my SD card directory. However after connecting my phone to my PC thru active sync there are some files that are visible on my phone in the SD card directory which aren't visible in the SD card folder on my PC screen. I've tried to find the show all files setting on my pc but haven't been able to.
Thing is I don't want to backup my card then format it and possibly not backup all files that are present on the card.
Any help appreciated.
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itamar said:
Hi there,
Two days ago I copied all the files on my SD card to my laptop, changed my card from a 2Gb one to a 8Gb and copied all the files back again onto the new SD card. I never even looked for hidden files neither on the phone nor on the laptop and it all went without any problems and all is working fine.
For sake of good order, I can't guarantee it will work with you as well, but it should.
Bye,
Itamar
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Hi, thx for the reply. Think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and go ahead.

[Q] I want to replace sd card that has side-loaded apps

I have an 8 gig sd card on my Nook Tablet on which I have side-loaded apps. I was wondering how I can upgrade to a larger sd card. Do I have to transfer the apps to the new card? And how would I do that? Or do I have to reinstall all of the apps that have been saved to the card?
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Singingdrum said:
I have an 8 gig sd card on my Nook Tablet on which I have side-loaded apps. I was wondering how I can upgrade to a larger sd card. Do I have to transfer the apps to the new card? And how would I do that? Or do I have to reinstall all of the apps that have been saved to the card?
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Do you have the apps actually INSTALLED on the SDcard (this requires some tweaking of settings), or did you download the .APK files onto your SDcard and install them from there?
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I prefer to keep apps installed on the nook's internal memory (because why not?), so using something like Titanium backup (I think? or maybe another app manager) to move any that automatically install to an sd card is handy.
Thanks for the replies. I thought that I would be able to copy as you guys suggested. I just wanted to be sure. As for where the apps are installed to, I believe the Amazon apps that are side-loaded need to go on the sd card for some reason, so that's why I was concerned.
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Copy SD card to larger capacity SDcard.

Hi. I have bought a new 128gbSD card to replace the 64gb card currently in my honor7. My old phone Samsung S3 used to show the card separately as 2 drives when plugged into Windows (7). I could copy the contents of the card as a back up and/or move files from the phone drive to the SD drive.
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