yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
There's a huge difference. The vold hack mounts the external where the internal goes and the internal where the external goes. DB links two folders together similar to Windows' mklink and Linux's symbolic links except that the link is transparent. Which is to say, multiple access points for the same folder, but the apps and system can't tell the difference.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] :
I can use DB together with modified vlodf.stab and won't mess DB together with modified vlod.fstab and still can link the same folders in both? is that correct?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
There's no difference except what goes where. It's like changing drive letters on Windows disks. So yes, it will work fine.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] AceDZN:
Can't make it work on my smartphone

Hey there!

I use the Directory Bind app on my tablet - & it is working like a charm.

but I can't make it work on my smartphone - each time I bind a directory - it works for 1 hour & then it deletes all the entries :\

I find myself loosing files\apps all the time - it's really sucks :\

What can cause this & is there a fix for it?

Both of the devices run Android 4.1.1

Thank you

Alex Sindalovsky
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] radicalero:
Please help me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Last time I checked version numbers ascended... including letters.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Moka103:
Mr

Plz can you help me

i have folder mount app and mounted sygic navigator, but by error i deleted it now i tried to install it again but it can not as it give me error mesage

" can not save th file database: open failed : ENOENT (no such file or directory) "

How can i solve this problem
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Uh. If you have a problem with Folder Mount, why are you not posting in its thread?

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] van14:
nice app ^_^
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] GeniuSotaKu:
Writing

Can I write to the directory while it is being mounted?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Yes.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BrokenNecklace:
I use s3 mini with CM 10.2 .but directory bind is not working.WHy:crying::confused:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] 92MB:
Hi, use "FOLDER MOUNT" instead. This is much better than Directory Bind, which has not been updated for so long.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Stunherald:
Perfect app, i am finally able to move some files out of the internal storage where the app does not allow that.

Anyway, i also tried to create a link from the external card to the internal storage so i could finally get rid of the annoying jumping between them, but looks like it's not possible. I tried several ways (because it is a bit messy on my PhotonQ) but without success.

It looks like this (from "/" (root) perspective)

/external_sd -> /storage/sdcard1 # this is a softlink to a physical SD card
/sdcard -> /storage/emulated/legacy # this is a softlink pointing to internal storage

/storage/sdcard0 -> /storage/emulated/legacy # another softlink to internal storage

/storage/emulated/0 # This is /dev/fuse mount which is an internal storate
/storage/emulated/legacy # this is again /dev/fuse mount

/storage/sdcard1 # this is /dev/block/vold/179:97 which is the physical external SD card

I'd like to have a way (mount/softlink) how to jump from SDcard to the internal storage (and back). Is this even possible? No matter what i am trying i am getting "Enter valid target directory". Neither ln -s from terminal does not work, its throwing "permission denied" (tried under root).

Thanks

Stun
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
On devices with emulated storage, the real path to the internal SD card is "/data/media/0" (zero). On devices without emulated storage, look in /system/etc/vold.fstab for the real path (something like /storage/sdcard, /storage/sdcard0, or /mnt/sdcard).

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Stunherald:
Thanks, ill check that.

EDIT: Huh, i don't have /system/etc/vold.fstab I also tried to search for that and no luck O_o ... Device: Motorola Photon Q , ROM: Cyanogenmod 10.2.1 (JB 4.3.1)

EDIT2: Ha, got it ... its in root as "fstab.qcom"
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Maybe it's a different file per hardware. Wouldn't be the first time.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] boakill:
Missing com file

I'm trying to move Order and Chaos over to my extsd but I can't find the com.bla.bla file for it. I can find the ones for google maps and such, but none for my other apps. Where do I go, what do I look for?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
The four standard places it could be are: /data/data, /sdcard/Android/data, /sdcard/Android/obb, and /sdcard/data. However, it could very well be anywhere in /sdcard (it could put its own folder in there like apps had to do before there was a standard API for /sdcard/Android/data). It could even pull everything directly from its APK.

In short, good luck. :)

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] G.E.O.:
Hi, this is a great app.

I have a couple of questions, i would appreciate if someone could answer.

When a directory is mounted on the external sd and i add files to the original directory on the internal sd, would those files be automatically moved to the mounted partition, or i need to move them manually?

Do I need to move all files back to the original before I add the new ones and then create a new entry in directory bind?

What is the best method to do that?

I'm asking because I have mounted successfully caustic with few sound packs and now I need to install a few more, so I was wondering if they would be on the internal or external sd after the installation.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Mayron89:
Hello

Gentlemen, I have a problem with this application. When you add entries, after a 5min entries disappear and you have to add them again. May know what is the cause?

Apps I use on the Sony Xperia L of course ROOT
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] teddy0209:
Enable root, check persistent service in preferences... See if that solves your problem..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Mayron89:
Unfortunately, nothing helps: (.

Next, after some time and the entries disappear when you reboot your phone
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] gwozdziu114:
good app :D ty
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wanerza77:
Can't Android version 4.4.2 use directory bind?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
It's been broken since 4.2 and hasn't been updated. What do you think?

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wanerza77:
Erkk.. Nothing to say brother. What is ur suggestion? :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Folder Mount, Directory Bind's predecessor.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wanerza77:
Thanks a lot.. I'll searching now :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TwistedPoet:
Thank You

I stumbled upon this by accident. Like most things that land me here. LOL. I was having issues with Directory Bind. Once I seen your post I went and got Folder Mount and (at first glance), everything seems to be working great. I'm gonna pair it with Link2SD and see how it goes. Thanks again!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wanerza77:
We are lucky :D thank [MENTION=4587767]egingell[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] gwozdziu114:
why when i click on disk icon and icon is making green and i turn on game is everything ok but after reboot phone in directory bind i must add again the same game because directory bind is clean ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Use alternate database.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] gwozdziu114:
thanks :>

now its work
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Jason1712:
Hi,

I'm having a problem. Pleasssseee help FolderMount doesn't work I'm hoping at least this does.

I used a guide at androtechnocracks.blogspot.com to get this app to work. (I can't post link, I'm new user)

I followed what they said to do, but after I finished the game doesn't work! It offers to redownload all the files! I created a empty folder in Internal Storage/Android/data, then copied the original data folder of the game to SD card,(folders have same name and path,i.e both are in folders called data which is a subfolder of Android) then I did what the guide said, the floppy disk icon is green, no error, but when I launch the game it wants to redownload everything. It isn't reading from the SD card.

Please help me with this, I will be very grateful. I have an HTC Desire 601, stock ROM, Android version 4.2.2. I'm using the 0.2.0k version of DirectoryBind.(I'm assuming that's the latest version?)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nagrom0709:
Have I missed something?

Okay this app is ideal as I've loads of games that have sucked up most of my 16gig internal memory. I wanted to move most of the downloaded files to my 32 gig external card.

I've binded the directory for Shadowgun as a test, and it moved the files just fine.

Now assumed the idea of this app was once you bind the directories, you can delete the files on the internal memory. In order to free up space. I tried this, but once i started Shadowgun the game saido need to redownload the game files again.

I'm guessing I'm right, that this app allows to moving, and deleting of the game files, to free up space, but if thats the case, how do you get the games to reference the moved files?

Okay so I just tried again.

Set up my binding

sdcard/android/data/com.madfingergames.shadowgun

To go to

sdcard/external_sd/android/data/com.madfingergames.shadowgun

Deleted the files within the ORIGINAL directory, but NOT the directory itself.

Rebooted

And started the game.

Shadowgun is STILL asking me to redownload the 250mb of files I binded.

Help......
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rsngfrce:
Quick answer from memory, so I could be totally wrong... The files are not in the original directory, the system just thinks they are there. When you delete them, you are actually deleting the files you moved. I'm pretty sure this came up earlier in the thread. I haven't personally used the program though...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Testraindrop:
Exactly.

You have to tick "transfer files blabla" when you make a new binding.

To control if files are bound and moved, just disable the binding, check the folder, it should now be empty and the folder on the sd card should have your files...

...enable the binding again afterwards ;-)

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nagrom0709:
okay thats weird.

I did EVERYTHING you said before, and it never worked.

Now it seems to have worked just fine.

If this is as good as you ask make out it'll be a God send.

Thanks for your help.

Andy
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] greensheep:
Hi, this app is very fantastic but with ICS it gets FC :(

There is any solution? With gingerbread was perfect, but now with all the custom rom ICS (samsung based) it doesn't work correctly
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Testraindrop:
Working fine in ICS (CM9/AOSP).

Try reinstalling.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nagrom0709:
Okay am I doing something fundamentally wrong here.

EVERY TIME, apart from the one above, all the files are still left on the internal sd. EVEN when I check move files to other folder.

I've read through most of this thread, and seem to be doing everything right, but my phone still doesn't like this great app.

Can someone write a total idiots step by step guide as to how to set this up, reboot and run the games/ apps after?

Sorry to be a pain in the ass.

Andy

I think I may have finally figured out this app.

Awesome so far...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] greensheep:
solution? i try in every rom samsung based and the app gets FC....

I don't want CM9 i prefer samsung rom....
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nagrom0709:
Okay now that I've sussed this app out, for the most part, it freakin rocks.

However I have two questions. I KNOW the answers in this thread somewhere, but the search feature is crap, and I cant be bothered trawling through 25 pages, and 249 posts for the answer.

1. Why would bind fail, and how do I correct the problem.

2. Why do I keep losing my binds after a reboot.

Thanks Slig for an awesome app.

Andy.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Testraindrop:
1. Don't know, try again?

2. There is a experimental feature for saving stuff after reboot in the settings, works for me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mikeeey:
I'm very confused with how to get this working properly. I'm trying to move the 250mb+ data that deadspace creates.

1. In the Data field I've selected /sdcard/external_sd/android/data/ as my Destination directory.

2. In the Target field I've selected /sdcard/android/data/com.ea.deadspace_na as the original location.

3. I've checked Transfer Data checkbox and click ADD a message comes up saying "Data directory is NOT empty!" I'm not sure what that even means. If I uncheck it and click ADD it works, but the files still remain on the internal SD.

When I click the save button that turns green, the files have disappeared from the original location on the internal SD when browsing with a file manager (but checking my storage space still reports the same). When I click this save button again and it is no longer green, the files reappear in the original internal SD location.

So far I haven't been able to get it to transfer any files yet.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] AlexRussia1971:
Unfortunately, it doesn't help. After а reboot all bond dirs are unbind. Everything works fine until reboot.

When booting there are notifications that DirectoryBind got SuperUser and performed AutoBinding but nothing works. I don't use any taskkiller.

Device: Huawei MediaPad ICS 4.0.3
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Testraindrop:
1. In the Data field I've selected /sdcard/external_sd/android/data/ as my Destination directory

That's your problem, this folder is most likely not empty. That's why transfer isn't working.

Create another EMPTY folder in data, then you can transfer.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jjtta:
Protected files and Directory Bind

Hi,

It seems that I can't do this

source

/sdcard/sdcard2/DataExt/Data/com.reksaneb.invoicepro/databases/

target

/data/data/com.reksaneb.invoicepro/databases/

since DirectoryBind does not "see" the files in /data

jj
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] delca85:
Which is the experimental feature to save stuff after reboot?

I have chosen alternate dbase mgmt but it doesn't work.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Testraindrop:
Hm I have that one and Persistent Service activated, works for me...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] konman21:
Delete
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] happily1986:
yea verified that to get the binding to persists on reboot, you got to check

1.) Persistent Service

2.) Alternate dbase mgmt

Until you do that, you need to redo the Binding on reboot everytime. You don't have to check "Transfer files from target to data" anymore since the physical files are already on external_sd

Remember folks who are clueless, this app is supposed to help you to shift files which are required to be on /sdcard physically to /external_sd and then do a symlink so that your phone is made to think that the files are on /sdcard when they aren't.

you know you are doing it wrong when your gameloft game keeps prompting you to download the entire package of game files totalling 550MB++ when you start the game each time.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] delca85:
Sorry but when you talk about "persistent service" do you mean "bind on boot"? Because I am not able to find any setting with persistent service option.

Thanks a lot.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] yowanvista:
Doesn't seem to accept my target directory.

i.e Source: "/sdcard/Android/data/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftN3HM/files" (Memory Card)

Target: "emmc/gameloft/games/GloftN3HM/files/" (internal SD)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ClintJCL:
Tried it out; defined link disappeared.

Perhaps the code should warn us the link disappeared, rather than finding out after a reboot...

I have root access, and I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (SM-T310) with Android 4.2.2 Kernel version 3.0.31-1422334.

I've now tried 4 different apps that all make and fail to make the same promise. 64G SD card and I'm still running out of space constantly because I can't use it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] SidekickColor:
Well, I just set this up a few days ago and it works beautifully! After you set all the directory paths did you either a) click the disk icon to the left of the directory path or b) hit menu then bind all?

I actually came back to the end of this thread to pose the question to the developer of has he (or anyone else) attempted to just bind the Android/data folder? I use Rom Toolbox Pro to manage my files/apps (I'm rooted but still running stock software system with bloat deleted and ota disabled) and can have an app install directly to the SD card (normally internal SD partition) and then I wouldn't have to go in and bind individual items. I've not tried it yet because I'm not ready to invest time into it yet... lol

Okay, I hate the fact that I don't make unnecessary posts to things because when I mispel a word royally it gets to sit there for 2 minutes until I can fix it \:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Steve Eligoyo:
Questions about Directory In A Bind All The Time...

Slig,

Is there a means to move the entire directories to the microSD card via a one tap button ??

Some of my apps are 5,000+ files and take an hour to move and each individual file must be moved individually. Which blows.

Debian is over 5,000 files and the last two I moved were over 12,000 files large.

I'm running 318 apps + on my phone.

Also, is there a means to move the entire system apps directories, such as maps , Yahoo!, Firefox and indeed Android Linux os to the microsd card ??

I'm still getting low storage space nag screens and, frankly, it's driving me freakin' crazy.. I'd like to be able to create the path manually, if required, and transfer EVERY LAST THING ON THIS PHONE to my microsd card and go have a beer.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jake of Italy:
Hello! where is version 0.1.3m...? =)

Hello i'm from Italy, congratulations for DirectoryBind, i have only SIMPLE a problems: where can i get the version 0.1.3m..?

Cause i need to move whatsapp data... :good:

Thanks a lot and greetings...!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
The latest is 0.2.0o and is the last one in the OP. Why do you want an outdated version?

Also, he hasn't posted in a very very long time, so you're not going to get an answer from him.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Wanyi:
is this still compatible with JB 4.3 or kitkat 4.4?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
Depends on whether the device uses emulated storage. If yes, then no. If no, then maybe. Try it. It won't hurt anything.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] glowzz:
hello guys, i got a problem for using directory bind for 4.3, it works fine on 4.1.2 but after i try it on 4.3 it cant mount the data, btw i;m on note2 phoenix rom, can someone please help me ? thx :crying:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vatomalo:
Help

Im trying to make this work on a Galaxy Tab S3 Lite 7, it has the emulated storage, but it also has other bindings...

/mnt/extSdCard/

mnt/sdcard/

/mnt_1/extSdCard/

mnt_1/sdcard_1/

storage/extSdCard/

storage/emulated/0

/sdcard/

I just wrote up what i thought was relevant, obviously there are more folders in there...

I hope you guys can help me to find out if yes or no i can use directory_bind, because for now it is not working.

Also is there anyway i could just edit one of the startup files in /etc/ with

mount -o bind /mnt/extSdCard/Android/obb/ /sdcard/Android/obb/ ??

Edited init.rc did not do jack squat...

Actually deleted my line on boot, I tried terminal emulator and its not doing to either!

Whats up with Galaxy tabs?

Please any help would be most appreciated!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vhuiya:
I am installed and uninstall. but I can this moment not install

please reply

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memory full
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] neo1o1:
Root access fail

ROOT ACCESS FAIL

why ?

I have Samsung Note 8.0 and installed your app but it says at the first screen in red ROOT ACCESS FAIL why ?

please help me

regards
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
No, you can't use DirectoryBind. Long story short, emulated storage broke this app. At least for Samsung devices.

You can't edit init*.rc files. They are created on the fly at bootup. Doing so wouldn't work anyway. The SD cards are not mounted until long after the device has booted.

Just a guess, but maybe your device isn't rooted?

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kaeps:
it works in galaxy S4?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] auldthief:
the other way round??

is there some way I can mount the external SD folders to internal SD? I have a 2 GB SD card for external memory and 8 GB internal memory. So I would like to do the reverse of what you app is designed to achieve. How can I do this?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danis2142:
Games

Does not work with games on Moto g (rooted,4.4.2, otg+pendrive) HELP
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] egingell:
The paths are arbitrary. Just swap them.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] auldthief:
Ok.did it. I had to disable the path checking from settings to do that. But I am still unable to download the app data for real racing 3 to internal sd. It keeps telling I have insufficient space on my external sd.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vhuiya:
no working
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] 911-Future_Maker:
Yup, some games just keep searching for the REAL internal sdcard for unknown reasons and by "secret" methods. :D

You have to download the data to internal sd, then mount folders and check transfer files from source to path.

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It a known issue that if you're on KitKat the app doesn't work. You can use FolderMount intead of this. :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] umby75:
I take you my no good experience.

I downloaded 0.2.0o version.

I had only about free 500Mb in internal sd of my device in signature and i have Camscanner, Aura and Aptoide directories. I followed the guide but now i still have Camscanner and Aptoide files both in internal and external sd even if for Aptoide i think that i lost something.

Now for Aura navigator i have only a file both in internal and external sd and if i try to download again a map of less 500Mb although now i have almost 900Mb free Aura respond to me that i haven't enough available space! !

How can i use rightly?

EDIT: when i try to download a map of Aura Sygic about 450Mb size the program pop up me the occour 930 Mb and i have only 850Mb free.

Therefore, after the Directory bind installation with less data in internal sd i have about 500Mb lost..:(

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Blizzard22:
The only app I found out that mounting doesn't work is with 'Tiger arcade'.

The mounted folder (sdcard/Roms/arcade2/) doesnt work.

But for my other apps it works fine!

This app is a must have for every root user.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] 911-Future_Maker:
It's normal to have your files showed in both directories. Just to confirm your free storage space available:

sdcard -> 500MB

extSdCard -> 850MB

right?

Of course it is. :laugh: