I just got a new Sandisk 32 gb sd card. I want to transfer as much as I can from phone storage to sd. For instance, I want to move X-plore. In fact, I thought it had a way to move things to sd. I can't find it, though. Would Send Anywhere work? Why has it been removed? Would it be possible to get another version that still has working Send Anywhere?
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Transfer to sd
- Thread starter Rgarner
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what files are we talking about? are we talking about phone's data? emails? text messages? music? photos?
Some of it's photos. Some of it's apps such as X-plore and Firefox. Some of it's pdfs. I just want to transfer as much as I can to sd in order to free up phone storage. After all, it's only 16 gb and the card's 32. By the way, I'm pretty sure it isn't 16 + 32 = 48. I wish! How does that really work?
How it works is that 16 is the total internal storage, but a chunk is used by the operating system and other system partitions and so you only have something like 10-12 of that. And then there's the old binary Vs decimal thing, which I'll explain if you really want to know.
As for moving apps, there are two ways but both require OS support. You can go into Settings > Apps (or is it "App Manager" on a Samsung?), select the app and look for a "move to SD" button. That will move part of the app to SD, but not all apps support it. Or if your OS has the option you can format the card as internal (which will also mean that you can't remove it and use it in a different device as it will be encrypted), which will let you move more stuff. You can't just move apps using a file explorer, and they wouldn't work if you did.
Photos and PDFs, on the other hand, you can just move to wherever you like using a file explorer.
As for moving apps, there are two ways but both require OS support. You can go into Settings > Apps (or is it "App Manager" on a Samsung?), select the app and look for a "move to SD" button. That will move part of the app to SD, but not all apps support it. Or if your OS has the option you can format the card as internal (which will also mean that you can't remove it and use it in a different device as it will be encrypted), which will let you move more stuff. You can't just move apps using a file explorer, and they wouldn't work if you did.
Photos and PDFs, on the other hand, you can just move to wherever you like using a file explorer.
What he said^.
Your phone probably has 11 - 12GB of available storage.
The SD card after formatting will have around 29GB, so about 40GB total.
I don't think the SD space "loss" is formatting - 32GB decimal (as storage device manufacturers use) is 29.8 GB in binary units (as used by computers), so that itself accounts for most of the difference between nominal and available capacity.