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Asdrual

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Iam new to the whole android ecosystem and I am a bit overwhelmed with the way android stores the files and where it stores them. Coming form ios if an email had an attachment i downloaded to the phone. when i deleted the email and if i had not saved it to the phone i assumed the document was deleted but on my galaxy tab i still see pictures and documents which i thought i deleted with the emails. The same thing happens with my application; when i go to my files at my tab i see so many folders and i see folder with applications name. Is there a file manager on the android market, that well organizes the files and shows me the documents, music, apps, and photos and where the files are finally if it can show me which are important and which can be deleted.

thanks
 
If you downloaded the document instead of previewing it, it would be in the downloads folder.

Second most of the folders you see are system folders. If you delete them, the settings for some of your apps would be lost, or their data. Or the apps will just recreate them, so better just leave them alone. iOS is closed, which is why these folders cant be seen.

As for organized files, that would be a bit difficult since some apps also have .txt or document files for themselves, which is why its not easily done. Best thing I can say for you to do is just use apps, like gallery to show your pictures, the music player to show your audio, and reader or document apps set to look into set folders for your documents.
 
You can also use FX Filemanager, it shows files and media separate, nice UI and looks great, easy to use.
 
I use Astro, just because it was the first decent file manager I bumped into. Anyway, about all I use it for is to delete folders off the SD left by poorly-uninstalled apps.
 
I use EStrongs File Explorer for to manage the files on my phone's SD card and via WiFi the files on my home network drive and on my PC.

So the network drive is the big "extention" of my SD card.

EStrongs is free and ad-less, in market :)

Harry
 
+1 for FX file manager, although as I previously mentioned, be wary of the document apps that appear that are actually app docs which you may accidentally edit.

I forgot to mention that app LOL. I use it. :)
 
I use ES File Explorer and really like how clean it is. Its really easy to move/copy files from my SD card to the internal storage. The functionality is really easy, once you figure out how it works.
 
I use FX (it's beta and will probably cost something soon), I also use File Expert which I like better because it has root access, but the UI isn't as pretty as FX.
 
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