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Originally Posted by chaley
First: the side-loaded GP CC. Unless you have installed the google play store and services, at some point CC will attempt to verify its license and fail. Other than this verification, there are very few differences between the versions.
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So noted, and thanks for the warning. If I don't crack this problem before it fails, I'll install the play services and store to tide me over to payday. That, at least, appears to be relatively straightforward and well-understood.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Second: the SD card. Honest answer: I have no idea what Amazon has done with SD card support. Searching for reviews etc shows me lots of articles that say that the Amazon reader app cannot handle books on the SD card, that "storage is managed" somehow, and that in general people aren't happy with it.
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I'm getting that impression of unhappiness, yes. There's definitely some management going on: the default path shows as "/storage/emulated/10/Books/". That path, of course, doesn't show in file management apps that directly access the file system. As best I can tell, Amazon is displaying the internal storage to apps and transparently redirecting "approved" data to the SD card. Buried in the help files, I found a note that essentially says that only selected file types may be moved to SD; primarily music and video. Books are explicitly called out as
not movable.
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Originally Posted by chaley
On the other hand, it could be that Amazon removed the SD card restrictions, which would make sense from a support point of view.
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The easiest way to find out is to check the box in Settings / Other / SD Cards on Android 4.4+. This tells CC to ignore any possible restrictions and to let the user navigate the SD card to pick abd arbitrary folder. Who knows? Perhaps it will work.
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I gave it a try. CC cannot create the folder. I tried putting the card in my desktop, creating the folder, and then moving the files with CC. Still no joy: CC attempts the move, but is unable to create the files.
I'm going to experiment with some workarounds involving moving the files manually.
Thanks for the advice--and the excellent software. Obviously, it's on my "can't live without it" list.