Sorry, first time using dropbox...
I just put some files from my pc to phone, downloaded them on dropbox, but don't know where they are... Like sd/... What is it??
xriderx66 said:
Sorry, first time using dropbox...
I just put some files from my pc to phone, downloaded them on dropbox, but don't know where they are... Like sd/... What is it??
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sd/Dropbox/Public
or externalSD/Dropbox/Public
just look for a Dropbox folder
The dropbox folder of your external.
fyi, most file managers have a search tool.
It was in my external... Any idea on how to make it on internal??
^ we all knew it was on your external... no, this can not be changed currently. I am sure DB did this to not eat valuable internal memory (esp on phones that are not graced with as much as the Vibrant).
Not that hard to go into one more folder is it?
An earlier version of Dropbox did save to my internal because I still have a folder there with a few apk's; an update or something else must have triggered it to start saving on my external at some point.
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^ we all knew it was on your external... no, this can not be changed currently. I am sure DB did this to not eat valuable internal memory (esp on phones that are not graced with as much as the Vibrant).
Not that hard to go into one more folder is it?
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Sorry, first time DropBox user, and i checked internal, because well... thats where every app usually saves its data thats downloaded etc.
Thanks anyways.
Thanks for the extra info as well.
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I thought this was pretty cool, read it over on Gizmodo. Its really easy to do.
1. Install Dropbox on your computer and your phone
2. Download APK files from a website like xda
3. Drag and drop APK files into your Dropbox folder
4. Open Dropbox app on phone and navigate to APK files
5. Click on APK file file, file will download and ask to install
6. Install file
Read it on gizmodo as well, tried it for the first time today, wicked easy.
I've been doing on my G1 and now I do it this on my Vibrant. I love Dropbox.
I use Belvedere to automatically move anything with the .APK extension to my dropbox/Android/APK folder. Couldn't be easier.
Can we move Avatar to Dropbox (below 2GB) and delete it off the card? I mean, yes.. I know THAT can be done, but I was curious if this broke some patent or anything?
I am BRAND new to Dropbox (not even on the PC yet).
I'm a fan of this:
http://labs.dashwire.com/drop
awesome drop is nice moving a file from your pc to your phone... but it's a little limited in that's the only flow.
What if you want to share a file on your phone? I'd like to upload it to dropbox and share it that way...
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Can we move Avatar to Dropbox (below 2GB) and delete it off the card? I mean, yes.. I know THAT can be done, but I was curious if this broke some patent or anything?
I am BRAND new to Dropbox (not even on the PC yet).
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Yes you can move it there but if you want to watch it you would have to download it back to the phone every time you want to watch it. Dropbox can't stream the movie if thats what you were trying to do, dropbox is used for online storage.
There's an app called WebSharing that works over Wifi. It runs a web server on the phone which you can access from any computer and allows you to upload/download and move files around on the phone. It's pretty cool, check it out.
Is there a way to create a dropbox folder on the sd or internal memory and keep it synced with dropbox? Currently I have to download the pdf files that I store on my drop each time I want to view them, sometimes im not connected online.
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androidmonkey said:
Is there a way to create a dropbox folder on the sd or internal memory and keep it synced with dropbox? Currently I have to download the pdf files that I store on my drop each time I want to view them, sometimes im not connected online.
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I don't believe there is an offline mode. You can download the files the ln use file manager to copy them to a different folder for later but the initial time you need web.
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There's an app called WebSharing that works over Wifi. It runs a web server on the phone which you can access from any computer and allows you to upload/download and move files around on the phone. It's pretty cool, check it out.
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Yep I use it everyday love it WebSharing bought and paid for no need for dropbox here I'm never really installing apk's anywhere but home. Plus if i'm not at home I just download it to the phone and it handles the rest.
Just noticed my available space on my internal sdcard is sitting at around 2 gigs. This makes no sense. I dont have any music on it and I have gone through and deleted old pics and videos. I have also deleted old nandroid backups as well as files that i used to flash like roms and fixes.
Any ideas on whats causing this. I am running Kirf custom with voodoo enabled.
Are you sure that, that's your internal sd card and not the external sd card that you are reading off of? If you do have an external sd card please remove it, then reboot your phone, then check your memory once again without the external sd card inserted. Doing so should eliminate any confusion/confusions of you reading the wrong information.
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Im looking at the right one. It says phone storage Total space:12.78 available space:1.90. With the apps I usually have installed I remember having at least 7 gigs free. This makes no sense to me.
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Im looking at the right one. It says phone storage Total space:12.78 available space:1.90. With the apps I usually have installed I remember having at least 7 gigs free. This makes no sense to me.
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Do you have a lot of ROMs stored on it?? a lot of game data?
these two things tend to chew up a looot of memory
I did delete all my stored roms. I do have need for speed shift installed I know it installed 150mbs when it first started up but maybe its the game save data then. I just would have thought the videos I was recording would have taken up alot more space than they did.
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adamboyd83 said:
I did delete all my stored roms. I do have need for speed shift installed I know it installed 150mbs when it first started up but maybe its the game save data then. I just would have thought the videos I was recording would have taken up alot more space than they did.
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Just mount your sd to your PC and arrange all files/folders according to size, then browse around and you should find out whats eating your space up
I had a similar problem earlier on, it turns out that one of my database files had some how gotten corrupted and bloated to taking up a lot more space than they should have. I would check the size of your database files to make sure this hasn't happened to you.
So I figured it out. Set file manager to show hidden files. There was a folder called. trashes. Went into the folder and there was everything I ever deleted. Hit select all and delete and I am now back at 12 gigs of space. That folder had 10 gigs of trash in it! I recommendations to every one look into doing this if you are low on space.
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adamboyd83 said:
So I figured it out. Set file manager to show hidden files. There was a folder called. trashes. Went into the folder and there was everything I ever deleted. Hit select all and delete and I am now back at 12 gigs of space. That folder had 10 gigs of trash in it! I recommendations to every one look into doing this if you are low on space.
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damn, never heard of that before
Me either. I was just messing with it. Stroke of luck I guess.
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Me either. I was just messing with it. Stroke of luck I guess.
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You must have a mac, adamboyd. Am I right?
This has to do with the way macs "send" files to the trash can, which is different than a PC's recycle bin. A mac does not move the file from where it was located when you send it to the trash can, it simply places it in a hidden "trashes" folder. This isn't an issue when the files are on your computer, but when you're using your mac to delete files on an external drive (flash drives, or your phone's sd), the file remains on the drive in the hidden folder your mac created and eventually you run into the problem you experienced.
Solution: Always empty the Trash Can before ejecting the drive from your mac. That action searches out and permanently deletes all files located in the hidden trashes folders. If you empty the trash can after you've ejected the phone's sd from the computer, then obviously it won't be able to locate and delete the files that you had "moved" to the trash.
Hope that helps!
Good to know. And yeah I have a mac. I never knew that but I do now.
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No problem! I remember that frustrating me bad when I first got mine until I figured out what was going on.
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Also, if you make ClockWorkMod nandroid backups, they can add up fast as well. If you're low on space then you might want to move the older ones elsewhere or delete them from the phone.
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Also, if you make ClockWorkMod nandroid backups, they can add up fast as well. If you're low on space then you might want to move the older ones elsewhere or delete them from the phone.
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ah yes, i forgot about this..these can take up almost 1gb each
I was wondering, is there any way to hide the files that are placed on the "sd card" that are placed there by Android/Any other apps. I basically only want to see the folders that I make/put in there, and hide the ones that I don't use. Thnx in advanced
Seeing as it's vfat, you could maybe try setting the hidden flag, but I'm pretty sure it'd just be ignored.. and I don't think you can even really set it under linux/android. So yeah probably not much you can do, as hidden files are usually prefixed with a period. You might already have a couple hidden files on your SD card. However if you add the period to the files you want to hide, the programs looking for them won't find them because they're a different name.
Sorry I couldn't really help you but I guess you learned something, heh. Some file managers might have some kind of file hiding feature.
what sd card ? Droid DNA dont have sd card.....
It has an internal SD Card.
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what sd card ? Droid DNA dont have sd card.....
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What's up with these high tech devices not having sdcard capabilities? You mean you need to tell me,you just spent 500 dollars on a phone that only has 8gb of storage,8gb goes fast!!!! Not to mention, a portion of that 8 belongs to the system files and other various things....I got entirely off subject,so my apologies
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Jrhodes85 said:
What's up with these high tech devices not having sdcard capabilities? You mean you need to tell me,you just spent 500 dollars on a phone that only has 8gb of storage,8gb goes fast!!!! Not to mention, a portion of that 8 belongs to the system files and other various things....I got entirely off subject,so my apologies
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Troll elsewhere.
Put a '.' in front of the folder
EX: /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA/.naughty
The gallery wont see it, so no pictures or videos will show up if thats what you want
Only way to see the folder is with root explorer or another file manager.
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What's up with these high tech devices not having sdcard capabilities? You mean you need to tell me,you just spent 500 dollars on a phone that only has 8gb of storage,8gb goes fast!!!! Not to mention, a portion of that 8 belongs to the system files and other various things....I got entirely off subject,so my apologies
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geoff5093 said:
Troll elsewhere.
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Not to mention that its 16gb internal storage, not 8gb. So, if you're gonna troll, troll correctly at least..
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BigRed35m said:
I was wondering, is there any way to hide the files that are placed on the "sd card" that are placed there by Android/Any other apps. I basically only want to see the folders that I make/put in there, and hide the ones that I don't use. Thnx in advanced
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Put a '.' in front of the folder
EX: /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA/.naughty
The gallery wont see it, so no pictures or videos will show up if thats what you want
Only way to see the folder is with root explorer or another file manager.
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Yup, prefixing a folder name with a (dot) "." is Linux for a hidden folder - ".hideme".
BigRed35m said:
I was wondering, is there any way to hide the files that are placed on the "sd card" that are placed there by Android/Any other apps. I basically only want to see the folders that I make/put in there, and hide the ones that I don't use. Thnx in advanced
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Hiding the pron?
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Putting a period "." in front of the folder will mark the folder as hidden by Linux standards, but be warned that the root user can see hidden folders by default. So, any app in the /system/app folder or any app with root privileges that doesn't follow the Linux hidden folder convention will see it and use it as a normal folder.
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If you just need to hide files from the gallery/music player adding a file called ".nomedia" will prevent most apps from displaying it.
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I guess the main reason that I was asking if there is an easy way to hide folders is because I don't particularly like looking through a longer list of folders than necessary when finding the folder I want to go through.
How come the sd card shows up as sdcard1 under storage instead of just as the primary for sdcard folder in file explorer and why is it that when trying to save downloads from say next browser the external sd is not an accessible option?
External memory cards are NOT primary, the internal flash memory is primary. Android support for external memory is minimal, even games install to internal memory.
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But...but thats why I have a nice..big..sd card ya know, to save stuff to. lol
Thank you though sir
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But...but thats why I have a nice..big..sd card ya know, to save stuff to. lol
Thank you though sir
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You'll have to manually move your files to the external card, that's what I normally do.
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pardon me?
Ace42 said:
You'll have to manually move your files to the external card, that's what I normally do.
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Hi, in december I bought a sony class10 card hoping to move my games from phone to SD, now I dont have games or anything, because I couldnt find a way to move them or any info about, can you give a little hand on how to do it?
I'll really apriciate any help ypu can give me about it, thanks in advance
PHRuiz said:
Hi, in december I bought a sony class10 card hoping to move my games from phone to SD, now I dont have games or anything, because I couldnt find a way to move them or any info about, can you give a little hand on how to do it?
I'll really apriciate any help ypu can give me about it, thanks in advance
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File explorer apps or a PC. With a computer it's easier to move files obviously.
However I wasn't referring to game files or apps, because those only check the internal card. If you have music or pics, docs, etc, those can be moved to external manually.
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Hi, thanks for the answer!!!!
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File explorer apps or a PC. With a computer it's easier to move files obviously.
However I wasn't referring to game files or apps, because those only check the internal card. If you have music orI lost the pics, docs, etc, those can be moved to external manually.
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Well, once I readed that you can make the phone think that the location of your games folder is located on the mSD but I lost the info, if I'm not wrong, they used a console command, but I don't know the command he was using.
The thing is that this phone is like a small console, but games take a lot of space, and I use the internal storage of the phone for more important stuff like maps and documents and having such a big card it will be great if you could save games in external storage.
Well, any way thanks thanks again for the replay
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Well, once I readed that you can make the phone think that the location of your games folder is located on the mSD but I lost the info, if I'm not wrong, they used a console command, but I don't know the command he was using.
The thing is that this phone is like a small console, but games take a lot of space, and I use the internal storage of the phone for more important stuff like maps and documents and having such a big card it will be great if you could save games in external storage.
Well, any way thanks thanks again for the replay
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Like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2126163
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Is there an apk for that?
kwyx1 said:
Is there an apk for that?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext
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Ok so I guess this isn't specifically for the M8.. but I need some help. I've had my m8 for a while now but never properly copied over everything from my old phone. All of my old pictures in particular are still on my old phone. Well, most of them copied over.. but not the way I want. Basically, what I want is to get all of my pictures, and all of the different albums to just transfer from internal to SD so that I can just load it in my M8.
I don't remember what I did exactly, but most of my old pictures transferred over to my M8 all grouped into one album. I also don't want to use dropbox or do this over the internet. I thought Quickpic would've been easy to just select all and copy over.. but not that I could figure out. I suppose I could create new folders on my SD card and then use quickpic to copy them individually... but not ideal. Is there an easier way??
Also, unfortunately, my old phone will not connect to my computer, or else I'd use that.
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Ok so I guess this isn't specifically for the M8.. but I need some help. I've had my m8 for a while now but never properly copied over everything from my old phone. All of my old pictures in particular are still on my old phone. Well, most of them copied over.. but not the way I want. Basically, what I want is to get all of my pictures, and all of the different albums to just transfer from internal to SD so that I can just load it in my M8.
I don't remember what I did exactly, but most of my old pictures transferred over to my M8 all grouped into one album. I also don't want to use dropbox or do this over the internet. I thought Quickpic would've been easy to just select all and copy over.. but not that I could figure out. I suppose I could create new folders on my SD card and then use quickpic to copy them individually... but not ideal. Is there an easier way??
Also, unfortunately, my old phone will not connect to my computer, or else I'd use that.
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I don't know if you tried this or not but, if you are on a stock Rom, choose the "get content from another phone" in settings. The catch is you will need to get the HTC transfer tool from the play store on the old phone. Once you do that follow the instructions. This method will transfer a lot more than just photos. You get to choose what to transfer. It works really well.
You should just be able to use any Android file manager to copy, move, create the albums/folders however you like. And then the M8 should just pick up the new albums. I'm a little confused on what the issue is?
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I don't know if you tried this or not but, if you are on a stock Rom, choose the "get content from another phone" in settings. The catch is you will need to get the HTC transfer tool from the play store on the old phone. Once you do that follow the instructions. This method will transfer a lot more than just photos. You get to choose what to transfer. It works really well.
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Thanks so much. I thought I used that already, but clearly not. This worked perfectly and was no hassle.
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You should just be able to use any Android file manager to copy, move, create the albums/folders however you like. And then the M8 should just pick up the new albums. I'm a little confused on what the issue is?
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I was hoping to find a way where I didn't have to manually go in and find all of my folders, then create new ones on the sd card, then copy over each folder individually... huge hassle.
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I was hoping to find a way where I didn't have to manually go in and find all of my folders, then create new ones on the sd card, then copy over each folder individually... huge hassle.
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I don't see that as a huge hassle, unless you have a lot of folders in different places. And if so, why? I suppose you are free to organize your files however works best for you. But just having them in a couple master folders like DCIM and/or Pictures seems the most logical IMO. And if that is the case, just migrating them even manually is just going to be a few taps and take a few minutes.
In any case, glad you found a solution that worked for you. But it looks like the HTC Transfer Tool is cloud/internet based which I thought you were trying to avoid?
The HTC tool was Wi-Fi direct using the m8s connection which I was much more comfortable using instead of hosting everything in a company's site.
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The HTC tool was Wi-Fi direct using the m8s connection which I was much more comfortable using instead of hosting everything in a company's site.
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Gotcha. WiFi based, not internet based. My mistake. Thanks for clarifying!