Help Clean up of SD Card??

[enduser2941]

Ok guys, I know I have been asking alot of fairly rudimentary questions, and trust me I do apologize for asking so many. The only thing is that I am reverting to something that I have been told since I was a child and that is that there are no dumb questions, just the ones you don't ask. I suppose, if I have these questions, at some point, someone else is going to have the same questions and maybe mine will help them! Plus I learn from every question I ask, so believe me, yall aren't answering any of my questions for naught.

So I have yet another question for the wiz kids here.. Since I got this new Galaxy Note, I took my 8GB SD card from my Inspire, and I installed it into the Note. This has gotten me into an interesting issue.

The problem is I now have a ton of crap on this SD card but I do not know what is needed by the Note and what isn't. I wont be putting it back into the Inspire (unless you think by doing so and uninstalling everything on the Inspire that would help clean up the card) so is there an app or anything that can rip through the card and help me destroy what ever is on the card that has no use with the Note? I have already gone through the SD Card and physically deleted everything I could find on my own that was not needed anymore, but I know there is a boat load of crap still on there that I just don't know what is or will be needed. Anybody have any ideas as to how I can do this quick and somewhat painlessly? I would really appreciate any and all ideas even if they are little ideas. I will take anything yall can toss at me.

Once again, you guys are the best and I certainly hope that one day I will be able to be on the giving side instead of the receiving side. Thank you so much guys!

Cheers!

 

[touringhaggis]

Given that the Note is my first Android device I am not sure just how sensitive apps are to having their data removed (by accident). My advice would be to make a backup of the SD card and then go deleting to see what happens. The worst that can happen is that you lose some configuration or apps that you have manually moved there. Certainty there is nothing critical to the phone on the SD card.

Good luck good sir!

Regards,
Eric Ritchie.

PS: a forum without questions is somewhat useless. So as long as you are not trolling there is absolutely no reason to apologise for posting. Also, given the complexity of Android, there are, like you say, no stupid questions!

 

[brykins]

I've noticed that the Android ecosystem* is quite bad in that there seems to be no pressure on app developers to ensure that when their app is uninstalled, it also removes whatever it has placed on your SD card. I go through my SD (both "internal" and "external") quite often and am amazed at how many odd folders get left over, often with junk in, from deleted apps.

* of course....might well happen with iOS but no-one would know cos they can't access their own file system!

 

[enduser2941]

* of course....might well happen with iOS but no-one would know cos they can't access their own file system!

Holy crap! Are your serious?!?! I had no idea about that! That is absolutely ridiculous! Though for some odd reason I am not surprised! I was under the impression that when iOS X came out they had gone to a Linux model for the OS, is this a true statement or am I mistaken? Either way, not allowing the user access to their own FS sounds like something Microshaft would do, and to some respects tried to do in Vista.... Sad, just sad!

 

[droidcentric]

I was under the impression that when iOS X came out they had gone to a Linux model for the OS, is this a true statement or am I mistaken? Either way, not allowing the user access to their own FS sounds like something Microshaft would do, and to some respects tried to do in Vista.... Sad, just sad!

Every OS out there is either based on Unix or BSD for which Mac OSX was built upon. That does not matter however being as the phone is setup to where the device user is trapped in a user shell. The only upside to this is that it becomes a little harder for someone else to hack into your phone and steal information.