I'm sure there is is a very simple answer to my issue but all the storage terminology in Android has me confused!
Background - I just installed CWM and then Cyanogen 10.2 stable on my S3 (which was running stock 4.3 and had become unbearably slow).
Now I am trying to reinstall some apps that have the .apk files stored on my SD Card, but although Windows can see my SD Card when the phone is plugged in via USB, Android utilities e.g. AppInstaller or My Files don't seem to be able to see the SD card. I know they used to in the past but I can't recall how. :-( Settings, Storage can see both the Internal Storage and SD card fine, it's just the android file manager utils can't.
The other weird thing is that My Files can see an Internal Storage/storage/extsdcard folder, but that appears to point to something else entirely with a subset of some files that were on my SD card - but it's certainly not the actual SD card.
My Files and File Manager's top level folder seems to start at "0" whatever that is, AppInstaller says it's /storage/emulated/0 -still haven't the foggiest what that file structure hierarchy means - and I've used Linux before! There's doesn't appear to be a basic top level root folder which I find odd.
How can Android see my SD card again?
Background - I just installed CWM and then Cyanogen 10.2 stable on my S3 (which was running stock 4.3 and had become unbearably slow).
Now I am trying to reinstall some apps that have the .apk files stored on my SD Card, but although Windows can see my SD Card when the phone is plugged in via USB, Android utilities e.g. AppInstaller or My Files don't seem to be able to see the SD card. I know they used to in the past but I can't recall how. :-( Settings, Storage can see both the Internal Storage and SD card fine, it's just the android file manager utils can't.
The other weird thing is that My Files can see an Internal Storage/storage/extsdcard folder, but that appears to point to something else entirely with a subset of some files that were on my SD card - but it's certainly not the actual SD card.
My Files and File Manager's top level folder seems to start at "0" whatever that is, AppInstaller says it's /storage/emulated/0 -still haven't the foggiest what that file structure hierarchy means - and I've used Linux before! There's doesn't appear to be a basic top level root folder which I find odd.
How can Android see my SD card again?
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