Help Home Folder Problems

[WarProxy]

Hey Everyone!

I'm here today to bring you with this mystery (that I have yet to look into ). I have attached some files that hopefully you can see, I use AndroZip for my files and etc. so when I went up a folder I was surprised to see that there was a folder called 'emulated' and that was where my home folder thing was located instead of being on sdcard0. So I was wondering if anyone has heard of or dealt with this if they can help me (if this is anything bad).

Thanks, WarProxy

 

[Rukbat]

There's no internal piece of plastic that's the "internal SD card", instead, part of the phone's memory emulates an SD card. (You're not supposed to look inside the box - you might let the magic out.)

 

[WarProxy]

ok but when I looked at the sdcard0 it always had the house on it now it's on the 0 in emulated. Emulated never existed before, I just noticed it yesterday.

 

[funkylogik]

I think thats android 4.2plus so if you got the 4.3 update, thats whats caused it

 

[WarProxy]

so it's not a bad thing?

 

[Rukbat]

Yep - they've renamed it, that's all. Personally, I'd rather see something like /mnt/IntSD. That's what you do in Linux - the logical name. Windows uses the physical name (like C Why should I care if it's emulated, simulated or black magic - it's storage that's mounted somewhere and it has a name. My ONLY concern is whether it's the physical device I can take out (the microSD card) or not. That's why we don't call tape drives /mnt/sd0 - so we know the physical device is tape, not sd.

 

[WarProxy]

ah ok, I was only concerned because when I downloaded a book off the internet it put it in the /storage/emulated/0/AndroZip file instead of the downloads folder