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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Oh i see.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] fastest83:
I'm sorry: maybe it's me, maybe I'm blind, but the only time I tried manually moving the "Aura" folder on the extSdCard, it only resulted in Sygic demanding to download additional content and maps.

Binding the directory to the extSdCard it's a whole other thing, and to prove my point, if you unbind that only, Sygic will prompt you again with the downloader. Bind it again, all will work flawlessly.

If, on the other hand, you could explain how you did the trick in another way, I'm sure we'll all be pleased.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
If its native, there must be a setting within the app itself.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] badaeng:
Using cm9 rc2 on sgs3 and had to use the alternate dbase option. It didn't even take a reboot for the entries to disappear. Not using a task manager. Works like a charm now.thanks alot.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Phil3759:
There is no setting for this.

There are steps when maps are downloaded. I am away from home for 2 weeks and have no access to these steps now. Some one explained it in another forum and it works. Drop me a message in 2 weeks to let me remember it and i will explain it for sure. All Aura map can be on external sd
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Phil3759:
Me too, but a backup / restore fixed it
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
i managed to get it all working on my SGS2 , moved copilot and spotify data to 32GB sdcard :)

only one problem though, when i reboot the phone my symlinks have a red symbol, i need to tap on them so they get gray and then bind them, i also need to FC spotify afterwards to have it sign in correctly and see the downloaded files

Why are my links not restored after reboot, and why do they show in red? I tried setting a different 'wait for data timeout' value but that did not help (tried 5,20,30,60,90,120)

my best guess is that the sdcard is not ready at the time directorybind tries to make the symbolic link and that spotify autostarts on bootup (although in startupmanager it does not show up), another route of thinking is that spotify does autostart and already takes the source directory so that the link cannot be made but that doesn't explain why the copilot link cannot be made ...

any help with this?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Hmm. If you're already binding other stuff using this tool, surely if there is no setting in the app, it makes as much sense if not more to also use this method.

What benefits of using another method to achieve the same thing would there be?

At least using this tool, all your binding and moving is done in one single tool and controlled centrally.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Phil3759:
Backup then restore settings, it will be fixed

If not, use alternative database

Because you do not use any tool. You move folder to external sd, just it. If all apps supported it, we won't need such a tool
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] daddyspud:
Hay chaps I got acer iconia a500 the internal space gettin full and I'm tryin to move files to my external sdcard but struggling to get it to work

Every time I put

S /internal_sd/music

T /external_sd/music

Dosent seem to work can't work it out

Any advice welcome thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Phil3759:
Inverse T and S
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
best to use the wizard, create a new bind, then pres menu button, then use wizzard
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] daddyspud:
Ok buddy didn't relies there was one ill look now thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
thanks, but both options did not work, i tried every downloadable build as well, k version worked, but crashes the whole time on ICS

doesn't mather though, i dont reboot that often and i know what i need to do to make it work ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] daddyspud:
Hmmm really can't seem to get this to work at all keep trying to move my files but they keep moving to external_sd in my Acer iconia main SD card not my actual external SD card hmmmm
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
The default directory in the app is external_sd. If that's not where you want it, change it. Its a clever app but not clairvoyant
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] daddyspud:
Yay finally I got it all linked up
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] boundphoto:
Greats job :laugh:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] djase:
damn ... it doesnt works with obb folders .too bad !
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Pushwall:
I'm binding my internal /sdcard/Android/obb directory to my external sd card and so far it works on my Droid Bionic. The games/apps I've installed that run are....Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Director's Cut), Tom Hank's Electric City (animation series), Electric City The Revolt, and Project 83113.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] djase:
for me batman doesn,t works !
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
Great :)

Sent from deep space nine
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] daddyspud:
I have it working with obb folder I just put all my game on ad card and one folder called android on sd card then one of course on internal storage and link to the android and all ok simples
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bkress:
I am also having the red icon issue on my sgs2 (i777) running CM9 nightlies. I have tried just about everything I can think of to fix it, with no success. I uninstalled/reinstalled and recreated my three entries from scratch... no dice. I also have tried the alternate d-base option with no dice. Basically I guess I'll have to go in and re-bind manually every time I boot. Upon booting I see that DirectoryBind has been granted superuser permissions (so it is starting upon boot), it just fails to make the bind for some reason.

I do feel that I should mention that this all started about a week ago. Everything was working great (even on CM9), then it just stopped working one day.

Any suggestions you have will be greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Pushwall:
I turned the binding on for my internal /sdcard/Android/obb directory to external sd card obb directory, and downloaded and installed Batman (The Dark Knight Rises). The game installed its huge data file (1.79GB) to my external sd card. I tried the game and it works. I'm wondering why it won't work for you,....type of phone or version of Android?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] daddyspud:
Hay buddy I had that red icon a few times it ended up being a space mistake like so

/external_sd/music /

See the space meant to be

/external_sd/music/

Hope this helps buddy
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
I did not find a sollution, i manually bind on reboot :s

Sent from deep space nine
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bkress:
I went through and double checked just to be sure, but all my entries are entered correctly. This problem just seems to be with CM9 and I am guessing it will be fixed at some point. I flashed the CM10 preview by entropy today, and auto bind is performing like it should after rebooting the phone. I have not been able to get it to break yet on CM10.

So, in CM9 for now I will just have to manually bind them on boot until it works itself out.

Thanks for your replies...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dishmaster:
Great tool helped me free alot of space up

:victory:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hinnn:
does it work for i9300? thanks.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bkress:
Well, the problem had reared its ugly head on CM10 now... However, I was able to resolve it and get it working reliably again. What I ended up doing is reformatting my internal SD card (created a backup first). I noticed that root explorer was reporting different used values than the settings/storage app. Settings/storage reported 800mb more than root explorer. So, there was some orphaned files sitting on the internal SD somewhere that I could not see. I am guessing this is what caused directorybind to behave the way it was without binding on boot.

At any rate, formatting the internal SD (clockworkmod). I also formatted (backed up first) my external SD even though it was reporting accurate data used in both root explorer and system/storage. Now everything is working properly again... It may have just been the internal sd , or possibly the external, or a combination of both. Not really sure, but it worked...

Phew!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] flamand:
I know this is intended for the S2, but I'm wondering if it will work on other CM9 devices. My HP Touchpad is on CM9 and the directory I want to bind is

/data/data/com.nim.discovery

and I'd like to put the data into

/sdcard/DirectoryBind/com.nim.discovery

It's not working. Any ideas or am I just out luck?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
Im sure it works on any device if you use the correct paths
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Diknak@gmail.com:
edit, oh, nm. You have to click the icon next to the listing after you add the entry. Wow, I feel dumb that I didn't try that.

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wow, you really need to get this on the play store. I'd say for about $5 you could make a killing because memory management is such a big deal now that there are more and more high data games coming out.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
Spot on !!!

Sent from deep space nine
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] FrenchSparda:
Is it working with Madfinger's Samurai 2 ? My wife dont want to lose her saves. So can i use your app to move data on external sd ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Pushwall:
I don't have Samurai 2, but I suspect that since Madfinger's Shadowgun works fine then Samurai 2 would too.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] faizulrahim:
Well with cm9 I had binding issues on boot & I had to manually bind them after boot. It's a bit of hassle to remember to bind them directories everytime the phone re starts..

So I decided to go back to stock GB instead where the bind on boot happens automatically with no errors at all..

So give it a try on cm9 as I am curious if you would achieve different or similar results as what I've experienced. I found out that it can be frustrating & confusing using this tool on cm9..good luck
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Did you try the alternative database setting in post 1?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Psyloid:
I have the same on cm9. And yes i use alt dbase setting.

But it's ok. I dont mind to manually bind

Sent from deep space nine
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Pretty sure cm9 has the bind command built in so you can bind through an init.d script
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kizax:
Hi, I want to bind my spotify Directory to the external sd card. But i dont know how.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] fabianrz7:
Great work. I need this

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Press "Add"
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] flamand:
I think I might have narrowed down my problem to the fact that app I'm dealing with stores it's data in /data/data, not /sdcard/Android/data.

Has anyone been able to bind a directory that is in /data/data?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
If you could, it wouldn't be a good ides.

Remember that the sdcard is mounted last in the boot process. Apps are loaded earlier.

/data/data could be symlinked with root explorer, although where too I'm not sure.

Generally to symlink it still needs to stay internal (or ext partition of sd card). Its not good, mixing internal filesystems with fat32 etc.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] faizulrahim:
I just discovered that cm9's directory structure is different and complies strictly to AOSP, that's the reason why that most cm9 reference to external SD is different from the Samsung's recommendation..

read more about it here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24352760&postcount=56

there's a possible workaround in the settings menu that would allow the external sd card to be used as the secondary storage instead of the internal sd..i am gonna test this theory..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] faizulrahim:
Hey guys..just flashed cm9 alpha by Acro and changed the storage configuration in system settings to use internal expanded storage; it just reversed file management to bind SDCard to external SD and emmc to the internal SD. So the primary SDCard is now referring to my 16GB micro-sd instead of my 1.7GB internal SD. So I am not using DirBind app at the moment since all Gameloft data files are put directly into my micro sd ..

Next I wanna test this with Link2SD to find out if there are any issues recognizing the ext4 partition..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vadonka:
im have an issue with this app, the bind options erased after a reboot. i need to backup the program settings then i need to restore after every reboot. any solution?

(SGS3)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Did you read the first post about Alternative dbase setting?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vadonka:
ahh yes, i miss that part. its solved the issue. :o
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Chuan201:
Can Directory Bind still be used at Jelly Bean Update ?

Dear all ,

i am wondering can this directory bind tools still be used after Jelly Bean Update ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] RoryB:
Works for me
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kizax:
Ok..... Here I am again :)

I have made a folder on my sd card. The name is spotify.

I have bind the original spotify folder to this one.

Here are my two Screenshots. Is this correct?

I am asking because when I check the contents is see that in each of them is content.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
I can't see the screenshots in tapatalk but...

Bind is similar to symlink.

Android or the app will always look for the original location of the data.

This app moves that data, but the app still looks in the original location. What the bind command does is bind that empty front end folder (original location) to your new back end folder. That way, when android looks to the front end, it is essentially redirected to the back end.

To check it has worked properly, press the green button next to the bind so its unbound. Now the old front end folder will be empty and the new back end will have all the data.

Bind makes both folders point to the same location. Although not technically correct, think of it as a shortcut
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kizax:
Many thanks for the explanation. Everything works fine. Thanks.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] crz6662:
Will this work on a T-Mobile SGS2 ? Would love to use this. 16GB internal almost full, but 32GB has 26GB empty.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kizax:
It will work

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rendler:
Great app, really great. It works for everything, only thing is sometimes a window pops up to say the app has stopped. But of course the directories have already been mounted so it's not a usability problem just a minor annoyance.

Thanks for this.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kizax:
Now something is going wrong here.

I cannot bind spotify folder

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Mr.ziad:
Thank you .
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mrshark:
hi, i've a galaxy note and i'm using this app to move my google music collection into the external 32gb microsd card...

google music does not allow to choose the target folder, so this is the only viable way i've found, as i've a 15gb collection that does not fit internal storage...

it works ok until i reboot the note... at that point, all my downloaded mp3s are GONE! music folder completely ERASED, it's there but EMPTY... tried 2 times already, redownloading all the music (i've backupped the destination folder and tried to put it back, google music does not recognize it's own mp3 and tries to redownload everything), and 2 times all vanished :(

in directorybind i've this settings:

S:/sdcard/external_sd/Music/

T:/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache

and OF COURSE i've these general settings CHECKED:

bind on boot

handle usb connection

alert on unbind fail

persistent service

any hint? :(

thanks in advance...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] RoryB:
I think people are not understanding source and target.

Please try this:

S:/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache

T:/sdcard/external_sd/Music

It should copy the contents of source /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache to be in target /sdcard/external_sd/Music
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mrshark:
no, i used the wizard and THAT is what has been configured by it... inverting the two paths i get the the DATA DIRECTORY is not empty... and, i repeat, it works PERFECTLY until i reboot, than i loose everything on sdcard, the folder is ERASED of ALL its content, and this is NOT acceptable... i can live with mounting a dir on an other and not accessing any more the underlying one (as normal in unix filesystems, until you u(n)mount the top one and have access to the original back...), but NOT with the fact that it's already the second time i loose 15gb of downloaded music...

using the wizard it moves all the content of source /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache

to target /sdcard/external_sd/Music than deletes the former content and mount the latter binding to the former, and works until reboot... i'm looking for a way to decompile google music apk and change directly that damned embedded path, and so bypass enterely the problem...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Did you use the alternative dbase setting?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mrshark:
nope... i listed the checkboxes i checked in preferences, and were all standard as far i remember...

now i can't do anything, i'm not back at home until next week, and with 3g connection i can't redownload my mp3 again...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] danarama:
Well OK, try it. It states in Post #1 that you should try this if mounts are lost at reboot. It resolved my issues.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Pushwall:
Instead of...

T:/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache

Try...

T:/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bsoplinger:
I completely missed he was trying to link just the music cache directory instead of the entire app's data directory. Good catch.

Actually it wouldn't hurt to add that to the OP, that it really doesn't make sense to try to link just some subdirectory of where whatever app has its data but to use the entire topmost directory for that app's data.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mrshark:
yes, i'll try this and the alternate db as soon as possible, next week...

but, keep in mind that that dir is ONLY for caches (artworks and mp3s), while the sqlite db containing the id3 extracted infos, and all the other data pertinent to gmusic, are under /data/data/com.google.android.music/

even if i reput the cache dir on sdcard from backup, without the db file in the other dir the cache is useless, as gmusic strips away EVERY single id3 tag while downloading, putting them into the sqlite db... so, you have a bunch of numerically renamed mp3, without a single info about what they are... i need to do a titanium backup of that other dir the next time i download all the stuff again... thanks for now, i let you know if it's working ASAP :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] friend1:
How to stop showing the annoying message: "directorybind granted superuser permissions " ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Pushwall:
On my Droid Bionic, I do this....go into Superuser app, tap on wrench in top right of screen to get into Preferences, scroll down to Notifications area and uncheck box to right of Notifications.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Al.Gray:
Directory Bind on Samsung Galaxy I9300 S3 (International version, unlocked)

I have problems on my Galaxy S3 (ICS 4.04,Rooted), following the instructions here. I've﻿ tried transferring a few large games to my ext_sdcard, and they do transfer; but the original data on the internal phone memory isn't deleted after the files are transferred to ext_sdcard.Then, after I delete it from the internal phone memory after the files have transferred to the ext_sdcard and try to play the game, the game is still asking to download all the data again. I really don't get why this is the case.

The weird thing is, in Directory Bind, the games I've moved to /mnt/ext_sdcard are all checked green and with ticks, so should, in theory, be successfully mounted. I'm not sure what mnt stands for, but it's the root directory of both the sdcard and ext_sdcard on my I9300. If I try mounting the target as sdcard\android\data\whatever, without the \mnt\ before sdcard\, the directory fails to mount....

I suppose the one big question I still have, IS Directory Bind, in it's current form, compatible with the Samsung Galaxy S3.

If anyone can throw any light on this and provide a working solution or workaround, it'd be greatly appreciated.

And a special thanks for slig for the development of this app.

Cheers, Al
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] eskostar:
That's what the program does, it binds one directory, so that when you open it, it shows the contents of another, so when you're opening directory A on your phone, you are actually viewing the contents of directory B. Which means when you delete your files from the sdcard, you are actually deleting them from the external sdcard.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Pushwall:
Good explanation!

I would also like to add in answer to Al that you need to unbind the entry (tap the green icon to the left of the entry) before you check your directory in internal memory. Once binding is turned off, you should see that the internal directory is actually empty. When you turn the binding back on, the internal directory should appear full of data again.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Al.Gray:
Thanks to both of you guys, made it much more understandable (I've been out of the loop for a while, and this is my first ever Android device). What you've both explained worked to a 'T', and DirectoryBind has now binded with my own grey-matter and things are working as they should. Great that now I can free up quite a few gigs on my internal SDcard.

Cheers again, Al
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] friend1:
Thank you, but doing this , will be disable popup from ALL applications which use superuser.

I have another one question: after rebooting , I loose the bind . I have checked the option "Bind on boot" !!

I blame Samsung for removing the stock option to move apps to external_sdcard, but this app has luck of UI (no offense). Very complicated options with misunderstanding descriptions (target and source folder).
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kizax:
Hi,

I am using sg3 on cm9.

What can I do that all my apps are on the external sd card?

Which folder exactly I need to bind.

Many thanks.

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Lpuboy87:
same thing...after reboot..I need add the entry again...and yes I have the boxes checked as said in 1st post...any ideas?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tejesh.mundra:
Read op solution is there in last para..... was having same issue. Plus make sure u r on version o
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Lpuboy87:
yup im on version o I put the alternate dbase mgmt on and rebooted....again the entry was deleted and not using any task killer.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] friend1:
Furthermore problem:

Many apps are installed under \data\data (angry birds, some gameloft games, etc).

The problem is that the program does NOT go below \data

I'm using "o" version with ICS 4.0.4
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Phil3759:
To fix on boot reset, just backup your settings after you configure the binds, then restore the settings just after your backup

This should fix it

Sad that author stopped dev on this incredible app and no other alternative exists
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] friend1:
I really can't explain why samsung removed the option to move apps. No logic.

Sometimes it reminds me apple......
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Lpuboy87:
yeah thats what i ended up doing :highfive: now I just hit restore every time
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] limweilong:
help pls

does anyone knows how to unbind / copy back files to original state before ? ?