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Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?)

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On 7 Oct 2018 14:27:41 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

>   I do a similar thing, but put most of these things on the SD card,
> instead of in Internal Storage.

Hi Frank,

I did the same with my Samsung Galaxy S3 as you do, but my last two phones
didn't have SD cards since they were from GOogle, but this latest phone has
the SD card which I just put in, so it's time to figure out (after a few
years sans SD cards), how to organize it.

>   I don't use something like 'appdata', because app data should go in
> Android\data.

The actual name doesn't matter, where I try to stay away from existing
directories since they're so badly polluted, whereas if I create a new
hierarchy, it's only going to have stuff I put in there.

My inclination, for reasons of typing, finding, and searching, is:
o Internal data (/sdcard0/0data/{my data hierarchy}
o External data (/sccard1/1data/{my data hierarchy}

In practice, for application data, I only move "the big stuff" to the
sdcard, where, for example, I have a _lot_ of map apps & offline databases.
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_android_maps_01.jpg>

>   There's no 'pollution'. This is standard stuff in standard folders.

We can disagree on whether it's "pollution" or not, where the *technical*
question is what happens if I format the card to *remove* those unwanted
folders?

Anyone know?
Do they just come back?
Or do they stay away?
 
>   There might be some *duplication* with same-name folders in Internal
> Storage, but that's probably mainly because you've - temporarily - used
> the device without a SD card - so this stuff had to go in IS - or/and
> some of the duplication/pollution comes from older Android versions
> or/and non-compliant apps or/and the default storage location being
> changed.

You bring up a point that the phone has been used without an external
sdcard for a while, so all the pollution had to go somewhere.

I prefer, for all the obvious reasons, an sdcard that only contains what I
put on it.

It's sort of like a diary or a closet or my toolbox, etc., where I prefer
to have a space for things to go where I put them and not some developer
who has absolutely no clue nor care of how things should be organized.

Mainly, the question is for people who *manage* their sdcard, as to whether
just formatting the card (or deleting the pollution) will keep it away, or
does it always come back with a vengeance (like it does on Windows)?

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Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?)  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-07 01:31 +0000
  Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?) Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-10-07 14:27 +0000
    Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?)  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 02:13 +0000
      Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?) Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-10-08 14:49 +0000
        Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?)  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 22:18 +0000
          Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?)  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 22:53 +0000
          Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?) Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-10-09 16:12 +0000
            Re: Do you keep the mess in the external sdcard or do you change it? (to what?)  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-09 16:52 +0000

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