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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Be sure to read about pros and cons of setting up your SD card as internal vs external storage before making a decision to set yours as internal. I did some reading about this last year when I got an Android Marshmallow phone and decided to use mine as external storage - obviously you may have different needs. At the time I was looking into it, I found plenty of articles and forum discussions about the pros and cons via a Google search.
Depending on your apps, you might not be able to store files on an external SD card.
For example, Bookari/Mantano stores books in internal storage:
http://support.mantano.com/customer/...not-supported-
Apps such as your camera may have their own settings that allow you to choose whether the default storage location is in the phone's internal storage or on the card. You may need to do some more googling or refer to your phone's user guide to find out how to access these settings.
Here's a brief video showing how to move image files to SD card on a Nougat device (I believe this is for having the SD card as external storage) - it looks pretty simple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1233Kqg450 |
Very helpful information--I'll experiment using the info. And, I'll check out the video. I hope that no one of you is having to do much, if any, research to help me out; I just wanted to tap into your collective knowledge to see what you knew off of the top of your heads.
I've got an idea. It would/could be very time-consuming, but I wonder why it wouldn't work . . . . I found out that "move" in computerspeak does not mean "move," at least in Android--it means "copy." So when, in my ignorance, I tried "moving" files from internal storage to the SD card, they were _copied_ to the SD card, not just moved! What if I began moving files to the SD card, then _deleted_ those files in internal storage? Wouldn't that accomplish what I wanted? However, I'm having some daytime nightmares here . . . . would I have to use _pencil and paper_ (Ack!) to record the names of the files that I moved, in order to find the ones in internal storage that I wanted to delete???
Alternatively, I wonder about duplicate file finder apps. Does anyone know if any of them would _cross storage locations/media_ (in other words, check multiple storage locations) in order to find duplicates? For example, in my case, that the app would check _both_ internal storage _and_ the SD card to find duplicate files? If so, that might help a lot, it seems. If there was such an app, however, my quandry, ironically, is where to put it--my internal storage now is as scarce as waterfalls are in the Sahara desert.
Thirty years ago, the people "in the know" said that personal computers would make our lives easier . . . .