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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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Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> wrote:
> 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.

  Again, they're not 'polluted' and their location and use is standard.

  That you prefer not to adhere to a standard practices is your
choice/problem and yours alone.

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> >   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?

  I assume they will come back as soon as you - implicitly or explicitly
- configure apps to use the SD card.

- Android for Android\data, i.e. for example
  Android\data\com.google.android.apps.maps for Google Maps.

- DCIM for the camera app

- Download for any app which 'downloads' stuff, not neccessarily from
  the Internet. For example 'APK Extractor' saves the APKs it extracts
  in Download.

- LOST.DIR AFAIK this is used to save lost clusters found in a
  chkdsk-like operation. Mine contains two 32KB files. Can't be bothered
  to check what's in them.

> >   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 does, but also the things you *implicitly* put on there.

> 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.

  It's actually about the developers complying with the standards which
Google set for what should go where. It's exactly the opposite what you
say, it's *organized* the way it *should be*.

  I'm afraid that Google, the developers and most people don't give a
toss about how you 'think', 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)?

  I manage my SD-card and probably many others do as well, but we don't
care about imaginary/non-existant 'pollution'.

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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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