SD Card Questions

[Kaiser Droid]

I popped in a SanDisk Ultra 64GB SD Card into my sister's G3 and got the camera app to default to SD Card, but how do I set it so that all images, videos, and music on the phone are saved to the SD Card including the pictures already taken and downloaded which were saved to the internal storage? E.g. Instagram, Downloads, transferred music from a Windows PC to the phone, ect.. I tried to manually cut and paste the DCIM file form the internal storage to the SD Card but I think I just screwed something up by doing that and the pictures seem to have just duplicated themselves. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Each individual app is going to control where it writes the files. Some may have an option in the app's settings to choose between internal storage and SD, but some may not give you the option at all.

 

[Kaiser Droid]

Each individual app is going to control where it writes the files. Some may have an option in the app's settings to choose between internal storage and SD, but some may not give you the option at all.

How do I get to app's settings to see if I can choose? Like for the Gallery and Music?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

It will vary from app to app, but most should have a menu icon, usually in the top right corner, but maybe another corner. If you don't see a menu, try holding the multi-tasking button down for several seconds to open the menu.

In the Gallery app, the menu button (3 dots) is in the top right. Tap that, then settings. I don't see an option for determining the storage location, though. But the Gallery app just displays thumbnails for images, regardless of where they are on the phone. So if you can set the apps that create images to save them to the SD, the gallery will find them there.

Play Music has it's menu button (3 parallel lines, also called a "hamburger" in the top left. Tap that, then settings. Unfortunately, I don't see an option to set the storage location there, either.But I think this is like the gallery, too. If you copy music to the SD card, Play Music will find it there. I don't really use this app, so I don't know what happens if you purchase and download music from Google.

 

[xocomaox]

An easier way is to install a file manager like ES File Explorer and you can do this move manually and sort them however you like.

You might need to root and enable SD card Read/write access. But you should probably do this anyways since you have a nice big 64gb card.