Will manual moving of data from internal sdcard to external Micro SD work?

[rahulrajen]

Hi android whizzes,

This is my first post. Got a galaxy note recently and i am totally new to android.

I am a game freak and u know the rest about what wud have happened to my internal user memory (11.07 GB). Its almost full now. I gotta external Micro SD (16 gb).

Now will the manual moving (cut and paste) of data from '/sdcard/Android/data/.....' to 'sdcard/external_sd/Android/data/...' work out? Can i play the game as before after moving ?

Or is there any app to do this job?

 

[lunatic59]

Moving app data from it's original location will only make the app recreate the data as if the game were newly installed. Games are notoriously large and several can easily eat up a lot of room. I would try and move media files such as music and video (not part of the game) to your external card. There will be no problem playing media from the external card as long as it's fast enough.

 

[rahulrajen]

Thanks for the reply. I dont have any media files in my internal SD. Just some 4 or 5 full version games have occupied so much space.

Is there anyway i can make the app recognize the data in external memory or is there any solution to install the data in the external SD by default??

 

[lunatic59]

I don't think so, at least not an easy one, but I may be wrong.

Traditionally, the path /sdcard was the actual MircoSD card and if you wanted more space you got a bigger card. However as phones began including a greater amount of internal memory, they partitioned it to system and /sdcard. Since internal memory is more stable and faster than most cards, it seemed a good solution. The problem is that apps are coded to store data to the /sdcard path, which keeps it internal only.

Android is based on a Linux file system so I have heard some talk of people putting their data on the external card and then putting a symbolic link to that data in the original folder, but I've never tried and don't know if they were successful. I would warn you that trying such file system modifications can have serious consequences up to and including bricking your phone, so only proceed if you are willing to assume the risk.

Hopefully there is a solution that someone else can provide that I don't know about.