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I have this file of all my things on drive that I downloaded, but it uses up 1.48 gigabytes! I wanted to move it to my SD card, but can't figure out how...
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Hello?
If it's just files you've downloaded with the browser, you should be able to use the phone's or tablet's system file manager app to move them to the SD storage.
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Here are some of the images: (by the way there isn't an option to move to SD card, that's why I asked.
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If you want, I can make a video of it. It wouldn't be any trouble, even it would be what I would prefer
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Here's the video:
So have you tried using a file manager to move things?
And if the pre-installed one doesn't do it, have you tried using a better one (X-Plore, Solid Explorer, etc)?
Sorry if the video would answer this, but I'm afraid that I always find watching videos too much of a hassle
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And if the pre-installed one doesn't do it, have you tried using a better one (X-Plore, Solid Explorer, etc)?
Sorry if the video would answer this, but I'm afraid that I always find watching videos too much of a hassle
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Uhhh but all you have to do is press the link and watch...
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And yes, I do have a file manager, but I couldn't figure out how to do it on that one.
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X-plore didn't work, mind telling me how to do it?
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Solid explorer seems pretty cool, but what I really want to know now is how to go to a specific directory, like instead of internal/whatever , I wanna go to the SD card to move my file.
Hmm, I've just pulled my tablet out (my phone hasn't got an SD card slot) and X-Plore just shows me the SD card. Maybe scroll to the top and tap on the word "internal storage" to collapse the display of your internal folders. You should then see the SD card. Or scroll right to the bottom and it should be there. It's easy to move files with X-Plore: set the tab on one side viewing the files you want to move, the other viewing the destination you want to move them to, and then select the files you want to move and press either the "move" or "copy" tool icon - it will ask you to confirm, and you can see where it is going to move them to.
And when I installed Solid Explorer on my tablet it opened the first time with 2 windows, one viewing the internal and one the SD (this is what it does in portrait mode on a phone). If you touch the "hamburger" menu icon (3 solid bars) on the left the slide-out menu should have a section at the top labelled "Storages", where you can see both internal and SD. Tap on SD, then you can navigate through the folders on that.
(Off-topic, but the reason I find videos a hassle is that I can read 10 times faster than people speak or show things on a video, I don't have to fiddle if I want to go back and look at things again, and I don't disturb people around me or have to find headphones if I want to hear what is being said. It's a personal thing, but I just find them less convenient than text in almost every way, and hence usually just ignore them when I see them posted, and almost always ignore threads which start with a video and no description of the problem.)
And when I installed Solid Explorer on my tablet it opened the first time with 2 windows, one viewing the internal and one the SD (this is what it does in portrait mode on a phone). If you touch the "hamburger" menu icon (3 solid bars) on the left the slide-out menu should have a section at the top labelled "Storages", where you can see both internal and SD. Tap on SD, then you can navigate through the folders on that.
(Off-topic, but the reason I find videos a hassle is that I can read 10 times faster than people speak or show things on a video, I don't have to fiddle if I want to go back and look at things again, and I don't disturb people around me or have to find headphones if I want to hear what is being said. It's a personal thing, but I just find them less convenient than text in almost every way, and hence usually just ignore them when I see them posted, and almost always ignore threads which start with a video and no description of the problem.)
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Maybe your tablet is different, because that was not the case with me.
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In solid explorer, it has two windows opened of just both internal storage.
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In the 3 lines menu, there was no 'storages' button.
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There is no audio in my video
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For some reason, when I went to the path of my SD card, it has all the same files as my internal storage, which must be wrong.
There's a "storages" section even on my phone, which has no SD card (so the section only shows the internal storage). That's a feature of the app, so I can't see why it would be different on a different device.
I know this is a stupid question, but you are sure your device has an SD card in it and mounted? Android 4.4 had some silly stuff with 3rd party apps having trouble writing to removable SD cards, but they could still see them.
I'm not completely sure what happened in your video: you were looking at storage in the system menu, then hit a button called "explore" which I've never seen in any other Android device. I'm guessing that opened some sort of built-in file manager, but that is definitely something the manufacturer has added.
I know this is a stupid question, but you are sure your device has an SD card in it and mounted? Android 4.4 had some silly stuff with 3rd party apps having trouble writing to removable SD cards, but they could still see them.
I'm not completely sure what happened in your video: you were looking at storage in the system menu, then hit a button called "explore" which I've never seen in any other Android device. I'm guessing that opened some sort of built-in file manager, but that is definitely something the manufacturer has added.
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I'm using Android 7.1.1, and I have seen lots of people go to explore
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And explore is a feature of 7.1.1 dude...
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And yes, I have an SD card in my tablet
OK, this is a particular stupidity of Android. For historical reasons (compatibility with badly-coded legacy apps) the internal storage (/storage/emulated/0) can also be addressed as "/sdcard". This is sometimes referred to as the "internal sd card" (though it isn't really an SD card at all). Your real SD card will have a different address: /storage/emulated/1, or /storage/extSdCard, or something else.
Edit: 7.1.1 - I skipped completely over that version!
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Apparently it isn't storage/emulated/1 or extSdCard, because when I tried those, it said failed, but when I did /sdcard it works, but as I said, it shows the stuff from internal storage for some reason.
That's because /sdcard isn't the SD card, as I said above. It's another name for the internal storage, for historical reasons, and the real SD card will have a different name.
In the early frames of your video there's one which shows 16GB internal shared storage and a 64GB Samsung SD card. You then click on the internal storage. What happens if you click on the SD card instead? That does show that the card is mounted (which I was beginning to wonder about), so we just need to work out what your tablet is calling it.
In the early frames of your video there's one which shows 16GB internal shared storage and a 64GB Samsung SD card. You then click on the internal storage. What happens if you click on the SD card instead? That does show that the card is mounted (which I was beginning to wonder about), so we just need to work out what your tablet is calling it.
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Well, first of all, if you press SD card, it shows you the apps on the SD card (I will make a video) and second off, I searched how to know what directory the SD card was, and of course it varies. But I did find that if you get a terminal emulator (I did) and type something like; echo $EXTERNAL STORAGE , it tells you what the path is, and with me it was /sdcard .