I have many files in section "private". Today i wanted to clear my sd card(1gb empty) and I have copied files to my computer(used sd reader). After inserting card, "private folder" is empty (everything is on card). How can i bring it back?
Veeztur said:
I have many files in section "private". Today i wanted to clear my sd card(1gb empty) and I have copied files to my computer(used sd reader). After inserting card, "private folder" is empty (everything is on card). How can i bring it back?
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I didn't get u
Did you encrypt the files? (Hide them?) If yes, then you need to decrypt/unhide them before formatting your sdcard otherwise you'll lose them.
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I installed the Titanium Backup Pro and it works fine. But the folder created for the backus is located in the main memory instead of SD memory where it should be. Anobody has the same issue? How to make it to locate the folder in SD?
by default it is located on /sdcard/titaniumbackup or /mnt/sdcard/titaniumbackup (thats the real path)
this is the internal SD and not 'main memory' it doesnt go away if you flash back to stock. if you want it to go to an EXTERNAL sd card you need to change the option in titanium backup to point to
/mnt/sdcard-ext/titaniumbackup
why do you think it 'should' be in a location that not everyone has?
The folder appears in "Internal phone storage" and not in "SD card". What do you mean external SD?
And how can I change the path?
To change the path, click menu> preferences> backup folder name and put /mnt/sdcard-ext/TitaniumBackup
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Edprigar said:
The folder appears in "Internal phone storage" and not in "SD card". What do you mean external SD?
And how can I change the path?
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internal phone storage is the 10gb of usable space for you. do you have an external SD card? as in, a microSD that you inserted in the microSD card slot? if you dont have a microSD, where do you think you are going to move those backups to?
just sit back and put a little logic into what you want
Pirateghost said:
internal phone storage is the 10gb of usable space for you. do you have an external SD card? as in, a microSD that you inserted in the microSD card slot? if you dont have a microSD, where do you think you are going to move those backups to?
just sit back and put a little logic into what you want
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Of course I have a micro SD card (32 GB) inserted in my phone. That's why I'm asking this. To me it's more logic to think in that SD card, when TB says it will save the backups in the SD, than in an internal partition in the main memory, named SD, as it seems to be. But I want to have this clear.
Edprigar said:
Of course I have a micro SD card (32 GB) inserted in my phone. That's why I'm asking this. To me it's more logic to think in that SD card, when TB says it will save the backups in the SD, than in an internal partition in the main memory, named SD, as it seems to be. But I want to have this clear.
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Dont think you quite understand...
In most other android phones the sd card path is /mnt/sdcard/. However in the Atrix this same path is used as our internal memory while our (actual) sd card path is /mnt/sdcard-ext/
Titanium Backup caters to the majority by default but this is easily fixed if you just change the path as stated above.
Charsher47 said:
Dont think you quite understand...
In most other android phones the sd card path is /mnt/sdcard/. However in the Atrix this same path is used as our internal memory while our (actual) sd card path is /mnt/sdcard-ext/
Titanium Backup caters to the majority by default but this is easily fixed if you just change the path as stated above.
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Thanks. It worked fine.
Sorry to "Necro-Post", but how exactly do I change the path to my external card? I have Titanium Backup Pro, and cannot find a way to edit the path in the settings dialog...
y0himba said:
Sorry to "Necro-Post", but how exactly do I change the path to my external card? I have Titanium Backup Pro, and cannot find a way to edit the path in the settings dialog...
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Create your backup folder on your external SDCard 1st using root explorer, or some other file manipulation app.
Open TiBu > Menu > Preferences > Backup Folder Location > Use the back key on your Atrix to move up folders until you can select sdcard-ext > select sdcard-ext > select the backup folder you created earlier > press Use Current Folder > select OK > done.
Using the back key to move up a folder is what gets most people.
CaelanT said:
Create your backup folder on your external SDCard 1st using root explorer, or some other file manipulation app.
Open TiBu > Menu > Preferences > Backup Folder Location > Use the back key on your Atrix to move up folders until you can select sdcard-ext > select sdcard-ext > select the backup folder you created earlier > press Use Current Folder > select OK > done.
Using the back key to move up a folder is what gets most people.
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Huh. I must be living under a rock. Has this changed very recently? I know you use to have to manually enter the name of the folder... Thanks for the heads up!
I tried creating a folder manually and pointing TiBU to it.. It asked me if I wanted to move my backup files there and I said yes. It then said '0 of 512 moved successfully'. haha, big surprise since my backup folder is 2gb.. So I just moved the TitaniumBackup folder from sd to sdext, and pointed TiBU to it. Verified backups and all is well.
I used the instructions from iJimaniac to swap my storage from internal to external (love the mass storage now!) however all my apps that I originally had moved to the SD card have suddenly disappeared and now i have to remember and re-install them. I made a copy of everything under /mnt/sdcard and moved it to my external SD card before making the switch so that everything would still be linked ok. Any ideas on what went wrong? Note: i took everything on my external SD card and put it in a separate folder on my external SD card so I wouldn't lose any of that.
Well, I used a PC to copy .android_secure folder from the real external_SD to the new "fake" external_SD. If that doesn't work, I would copy back the original vold.fstab then move all apps to internal, then use modified vold.fstab and move your apps back to sd if you want. Remember to reboot after making a change. Several reboots might even be needed for all apps to show up (might want to try that before anything). Hope this helps!
Ok well the problem is apparently that the .android_secure folder on the sd card is empty. Strangely it also has no permissions and refuses to let me change it. Whenever i try to replace it with the full .android_secure folder it gives me a black screen and i have to restart. Any idea what might be wrong?
Well, it might not actually be empty, it looks empty when viewed with an android file browser, but when you look at it on a computer (might need to disable "hide protected system files" in windows folder options) you should see stuff in it. So, you need to copy the .android_secure folder FROM your REAL microSD card TO your REAL internal memory using a pc, not an android file browser. To be clear, I have figured out that android transfers the app to your sd card when you select "move to usb storage", so that can be deceiving. Your apps were on the sd card, but now you need to transfer them to your usb storage by moving the .android_secure folder. Hope you figure it out!
Ah something decided to start working again and all my apps came back! Thanks for your help!
No problem! What was probably wrong was your player was rebuilding the dalvik-cache. It sometimes takes a while I find. Glad you got it working.
I helped a friend to root his DX2 and in the process of coping the files off of sdcard I hit move instead of copy. Now I would like to put the files back, but it says there isn't any more room for them.
The phone has 619MB of internal space left and I didn't put anything in the MOT directory. I am presuming that the phone it reporting the internal sdcard space as MOT. And for some completeness the "hidden" files weren't moved and are still there.
try formating sd card
menu>settings>storage>unmount internal storage then format internal storage
sd_shadow said:
try formating sd card
menu>settings>storage>unmount internal storage then format internal storage
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Sounds scary. I'll have a go at it and see what I can find before hand. I figure if I format through the settings menu it should be right, right?
I figured it out. What I did was copy the files that were still on the internal space and saw that it was about 3.8GB. Way too big for what should be there. Then looking at what was in there (like I said, it's my friends phone. I didn't want to rummage through his stuff.) I found that everything was in the trash.
That's what I get for not getting sleep.
Hello. I just installed CM 10.1.
How come it has created system folders on my SD card? I find an "Android" folder, a DCIM folder, a "notification" folder and so on. Before that, all thoses folders were only on my internal memory. I liked it that way. How can I change this?
LeaYo said:
Hello. I just installed CM 10.1.
How come it has created system folders on my SD card? I find an "Android" folder, a DCIM folder, a "notification" folder and so on. Before that, all thoses folders were only on my internal memory. I liked it that way. How can I change this?
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its a bug, your internal memory is the SD Card and the SD Card is the internal memory, its been inverted, but i dont know why
TheMrcool212 said:
its a bug, your internal memory is the SD Card and the SD Card is the internal memory, its been inverted, but i dont know why
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I think its because, hashcode the person who made the rom (ported it to razr) made safestrap also, and wanted to save internal space for other rom slots.
I read on twitter that he'll be fixing it
what is the typical file size for a typical file
ALSO can I simply copy and paste from the old to the new sd card, if some apps function off my external (ie cloud services) and expect programs to recognize all my data on my external card no problem?
Or is organizing, cleaning up syncs (ie maybe permissions change with a new card) a longer process than that?
BUUUUUMP
zetsui said:
BUUUUUMP
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Not sure but your apps on sd card not surely gonna be copied unless you copy the .androidsecure folder from sd which is hidden on Media and Camera usb modes. You can copy it by using UMS mode.
It can be changed using an app but it requires root. On very old devices this is the default mode. all your data are likely to be preserved. BUT IF CAUSE OF ANY OR ALL DATA LOSS, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE. And, plus don't copy from sd to sd. copy from sd to pc and from pc to sd. Better if you use a card reader which is also gonna show you the .androidsecure folder removing the need of anything. HIT THANKS IF I HELPED
or am i misunderstanding your question?
So your saying as long as I copy the hidden folder I'm good?
Also what Android version are you talking about? ICS file system VERY different from 4.1.2 and Kitkat