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alekia

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This phone is pretty awesome, it's quite a step up from my Samsung Transform Ultra, that's for sure. I wish it took SD cards, but hey, I got it for under $100 so I can't complain. I am on Boost, and when I first got my Moto G, I used Motorola Migrate to transfer everything from my Transform Ultra.

I use ES File Explorer, I am not rooted, but I was looking through all of the folders and I'm wondering why it looks like there are multiple copies of all the folders? Can someone else take a peek for me at their phone and see if it looks the same?

For example, if I go to the very top directory in ES, and then "sdcard", there are 12 folders. I know the number of folders will differ for someone else based on what they've installed. But okay so if I go back up a directory and go into "storage" > "emulated" > "0" -- there are all the same folders. If I go back up one to "emulated" and go to "legacy" instead of "0", the same folders still. If I go back to "storage" and go to "sdcard0", still the same 12 folders.

So really, the same 12 folders are listed in 4 different locations, it looks like. Or are they all the same directories, just emulated or pointing to 4 different places when the data and folders are really only in one place?

Sorry if my question is confusing.
 
That's the normal way android handles storage. They are just symlinked.

They're all really in 1 place, just many back-compatible ways of apps being able to get to it ;)
 
Nice! Thank you for the quick response. I'm trying to save as much space as I can. I'm already using Drive and Dropbox. Only things on my phone are a couple small ringtone files (Goonies theme music ringtone FTW) and apps.

Anyone got any space saving tips? I did see an interesting thread on here about using an sdcard plugged into a USB adapter, but it would be sticking out of the bottom of the phone. If only there were a case to accomodate that.
 
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