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Re: Where to find downloaded movies?

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tlvp wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 23:54:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
> 
>> Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
>> Android 4.4.4 Kitkat
>> 
>> I used Comcast's "Xfinity TV Go" app to download some movies. Got 3 of
>> them but downloading halted on the 4th because all the main memory got
>> sucked up. There is only 8GB in my smartphone of which 4GB gets eaten by
>> the OS and pre-installed apps and some apps I've installed since. I've
>> moved the apps to the SD card for those with that option in Application
>> Manager.
>> 
>> I called Comcast and they admit their app will download into the main
>> memory. Yeah, they claim they are working on adding support for
>> secondary storage (SD card) but they said that over a year and half ago,
>> too. Not going to happen. I'd like to move their movie downloads to the
>> SD card. If I have to, I will move them back one at a time to the
>> original download location to play them from there. I'm not looking to
>> keep the movies, just stow them until I get around to watching them,
>> especially if I expect to be offline for awhile, like when flying.
>> 
>> The problem is I don't know where is their app's download location. I
>> got the ES File Explorer app (spamware so got rid of it afterward) but
>> still could not find the downloaded movie file. Where might be likely
>> paths to where they download?
> 
> Likely candidates to look into on my phone (where I've downloaded other
> stuff, but not Comcast movies) include (within Internal Phone Storage):
> 
> - amazonmp3
> - data
> - dcim
> - download
> - kindle
> 
> and subdirectories thereof. HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp

I remember looking under data and download folders but nothing in there
(well, nothing was shown to me).  I found some com.comcast.<something>
folders on the system volume but didn't find any video files under
there.  I'm hoping not being rooted means the downloaded movies are kept
invisible to me.

Any recommendation on a file manager to use in Android that is devoid of
spam?  Heard good things about ES File Explorer until I found it bloated
the analyze feature with ads and also shoved out spam notifications to
nuisance me.  That got uninstalled pretty quick.  Need a free file
manager with no spam, especially not "active" spam that nails me when
I'm not even using the program.  A search would be handy, too, but I'm
now sure what file extension the downloaded movies use.

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Where to find downloaded movies? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-07-14 23:54 -0500
  Re: Where to find downloaded movies? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-07-16 02:28 -0400
    Re: Where to find downloaded movies? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-07-16 20:19 -0500
      Re: Where to find downloaded movies? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-17 09:35 +0100
        Re: Where to find downloaded movies? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-07-17 15:21 -0500
          Re: Where to find downloaded movies? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-18 08:30 +0100
      Re: Where to find downloaded movies? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-07-17 23:57 -0400
        Re: Where to find downloaded movies? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-07-18 02:26 -0500
          Re: Where to find downloaded movies? M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-07-18 17:07 -0500

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