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[Android Software Development] madmack:
I just meant that the logic I'm using in my code seems to be broken for your particular device which means I'll need to rethink it or offer an option to disable that feature completely.
[Android Software Development] skorpioneMM:
Ok, i understand :)

I think that if you just can add a option for disable temporary Foldermount without need to reboot its sufficient.

But i think its not a big big deal because like i say you in my previous post that issue only happened for me 1 time but add a option for disable the app are good idea for prevent or skip away thats problems when we need to connect the phone to the PC.

Lot of thanks... again :D

Enviado desde mi C5503 mediante Tapatalk
[Android Software Development] madmack:
v2.3.3 has just been pushed to the play store. thanks to all the beta testers :)
[Android Software Development] Athar Mansoor:
Hello Dev,

I have recently updated to the 4.3 stock firmware on GT-I9500, and also the latest update from FM.

I seem to face a discrepancy in from the earlier behavior of FM, in the gallery exclusion function. There are two notable scenarios. In both scenarios lets take the example of one of the 'Whatsapp' folder that I have linked using FM. The option for exclusion is kept on in both the scenarios. (and was on earlier too)

1) Phone restarts, FM issues 'Mount' and 'Remove media from Gallery'. Earlier FM used to keep the view for internal memory media in the folder in the gallery app (stock). Any updates to the folder were also reflected in the internal memory media in the same view on the gallery app. Now FM hides both the internal and SD media from the folder in the gallery app. Any new updates to the folder are shown to be in the internal memory. The latter is as expected but the former is way off.

2) Phone restarts, FM issues 'Mount' and 'Remove media from Gallery', the folder is removed from view in gallery app as above. Now If I manually un-link the folder in FM. Use the file explorer to remove/modify media in the SD card folder where FM has linked it using the stock file explorer FM issues the re-mount and remove media from gallery (samsungs feature - we talked earlier about this - no issues here). Now the remove media from gallery has kept the view for internal memory of the folder in stock gallery app and future updates are also updated there, (As expected of FM).

The notable difference is the way the exclusion works on boot mounts and manual mounts. Per my understanding FM should function in the way that it hides the SD card media and displays the linked view to internal media (the way the manual mounts work).

On the third scenario, when the FM link is edited to have the exclude from media disabled. The phone restarted, the media is displayed on SD card view, and new updates to the folder though are physically done to the SD card, the display is for the internal memory i.e. I have two similar folders in the gallery view one with the new updates in internal memory and one with older media on SD card.

Please assist.

Regards,

Mansoor.
[Android Software Development] redatom:
Can it be used with Google Play movies?

I travel and watch Google Play purchased movies on the plane. I have a Galaxy Note 8.0 rooted with stock ROM. The ext SD card is useless for the movies because Google saves them into a folder in the internal storage. Movies are pretty large. Can FM be used to move the movies to the ext card for playing or is there some restriction where this won't work?

Also- once a pair is set up, will it move movies as I purchase them and delete them or do I need to somehow manually sync the folders on each change?

Thanks.
[Android Software Development] baraozemo:
What is the diferrence between the free and pro version?

tks

BZ
[Android Software Development] egingell:
The answer you seek can be found by reading the OP.

Sent from my SGS4.
[Android Software Development] madmack:
I'm typing from a phone so I might not be so thorough but I literally haven't touched the media scanner part of the code in the last few releases of FM. I also don't quiet understand what you mean by "kept the view in gallery". You mean they show up in gallery as opposed to not (in previous version of FM they did?)

Well, if Google Play stores stuff in /data you might not have much luck with FM but if it stores movies in the internal sdcard somewhere (/mnt/sdcard) then FM will work and yes, your files will be in the external sdcard and any updates from the play store will reflect to the external and you won't need to sync anything as long as the pins are green.
[Android Software Development] redatom:
Thanks

Excellent. Thanks for the clarification.
[Android Software Development] Athar Mansoor:
Yes, Lets say i have a lots of images on a particular folder on a particular folder (Whatsapp in this case), and I use FM to move and symlink it on SD Card. The images though they reside in SD Card are treated as if on internal memory. And show in the gallery app. Also future updates are reflected in the same location.

But now this linked folder is completely hidden from the gallery app and no images are shown. Any new updates to the folder though are shown on the gallery app.

Below is a crop of the gallery screen shot. The whatsapp folder was completely hidden and new updates are shown.

Earlier FM used to show the entire set of images that are present in the whatsapp folder. Notice the icon next to the image album. The folder icon only means that the system thinks they are on internal memory (you I suppose are more aware of that than me :p).

The above image corresponds to when I have the link in FM set to 'Exclude from media scan'. This is the same I have been using earlier.

If the exclude is not used then the entire set of images from the folder do appear in the gallery, but with the little card icon next to it. Now an update to the folder, causes a different album of the same name but on internal memory to be shown. I.E. duplicate folders.. Thats probably why you have the option to exclude from media on FM.

I hope I was able to explain the issue.. let me know if you need me to elaborate more.. I ll try my best..

Regards,

Mansoor..
[Android Software Development] Batman Beyond:
I updated to 4.3 Custom rom, and i previously used the ext2internal mod.

Now (I'm assuming) the mod is incompatible with my rom (Probam 4.3).

Is it possible to me to use this app to make icons of apps previously installed on the external card (which was mounted as the sdcard on previous rom), or use the ext2sd mod?
[Android Software Development] astonmartin214:
Is there a way to move the android & obb file over
[Android Software Development] madmack:
Damn. Looks like my little hack stopped working for that ROM or maybe Samsung is implementing something "smarter" than AOSP to detect media in the sdcard. I'd say uncheck exclude from media for now and live with duplicates until I figure out something else. Perhaps you can also put a ".nomedia" file in the parent directory of the source folder that you're binding.

I also haven't changed anything in the media scanner between FM 2.2 and 2.3.3 so it's highly unlikely that the FM update caused this issue.

Not sure what ext2internal :( I don't think I can be of much help.

Not recommended, but here is how: uncheck the "destination folder checks" option in the settings menu then the restriction will be gone.
[Android Software Development] astonmartin214:
It says source folder is the enitre folder please choose subdirections of obb instead
[Android Software Development] Athar Mansoor:
Ok Will do for now.. You might be correct on the way the 4.3 behaves.. I have also noticed that now even deleting media from stock gallery app triggers a remount to FM.

Wish you a Happy Halloween.

Regards.

Mansoor..
[Android Software Development] Batman Beyond:
If I already have Application/ Data and OBB folders on the external (Sd card) storage, could I use Folder Mount to boot the apps?

So I have the apps installed on the sd card from a previous rom, and wonder if I could configure Folder Mount to boot apps in those locations.
[Android Software Development] madmack:
I don't know what "boot apps from sdcard" means. Like I said, I can't help you because I don't know the answer.

This seems obvious but aren't you finding out yourself using the free version?
[Android Software Development] elwood1229:
Can anyone confirm whether or not this works on a Samsung Note 8.0 updated to Android 4.2.2 (rooted, of course)?
[Android Software Development] pela_pmcba:
Hello. I had many games passed to the SD with foldermount and update my phone to 4.3 . But now I don't know how to configure the application without having to pass the data of each one again, you could you explain to me?
[Android Software Development] NaveenKumarXDA:
Tried it today. This app is great. Got my maps in card.

#madmack you are genius. Nice to have you work with ogp.
[Android Software Development] maxkhoon:
working flawlessly for wiki offline (3.59gb):good:

thanks a lot!
[Android Software Development] ozgadgetguy:
About to try this and intend to move my Whatsapp data over to SD. Can anyone tell me what happens if i remove or unmount the SD card (to manage it on my PC) whilst Whatsapp is running?

Do I need to kill the app whilst the SD is removed?
[Android Software Development] kaibosh99:
Be careful, someone had their whatsapp data lost trying this. There is a way to back it up first in whatsapp, I believe. Not sure why you need to unmount anything to access it with your pc, but it shouldn't hurt anything. I would obviously suggest not running any 'mounted' apps while your SD card is unmounted, in fact I would avoid unmounting the SD card at all unless you unmount all the pinned apps first in FM.

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I have a serious question, one I hope hasn't already been discussed to death. Okay, so a person has a dozen big games mounted successfully. What is the strategy for backup/nandroid purposes? Theoretically if one did a normal full nandroid backup, and then did a manual mirror copy of their External SD card, you could carefully plop the two of those things together and it would be a working 'backup' of an entire system - right?

What about Titanium Backup? Is it fooled by the mounted stuff? In other words, if you backup an app that is mounted, is it backed up properly as though the app had retained all the info, to the point where a later 'restore' would put the app back in the proper place on your Internal SD?

Also, has anyone noticed that moving an app's data causes the save game to vanish? My save games were wiped out on every game I moved, but I don't know for sure if this happened before I did the move/mount. This isn't the end of the World for most games, but in a game where you have bought consumable IAP is is pretty nasty if so. Anyone know for sure how this works? Examples of this for me were Reckless Racing 2 and both Kingdom Rush games. It was RR2 that I lost my consumable IAP's on, not to mention quite a bit of progress.

I guess if I get the chance I could test some of these questions myself, but I am very leery to poke at things for fear of disturbing a working list of apps.

Oh, and one thing this thread needs is a list of proven working games, and a list of games that seem to break when you move the data. For me Asphalt 8 didn't work to move, and then filled my Lost & Found with 9 Gig of crap in the process (although the dev says this can't be a FM issue), I have had several things fail and then had to manually gut them out (which was nasty because even the Play Store thought they were still installed in some cases), but here is the list I have moved with success:

- ARC: Redux

- KR: Frontiers

- Kingdom Rush

- Max Payne

- Mini Motor Racing (both dirs)

- Monster Shooter 2

- NFS:MW (whew)

- Plants vs. Zombies 2

- Rayman Jungle Run (both dirs)

- Reckless Racing 2

- Shadowrun

- Trial Extreme 3
[Android Software Development] slonn:
It does

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Sendt fra GN8
[Android Software Development] ozgadgetguy:
I gave up with Whatsapp - it wouldn't let me download media sent to me (images) after I enabled it so it was no good.

Strangely Asphalt 8 works fine for me, I only installed it today and it was what prompted me to look for a 'relocation" solution.

Other items working for me so far:

- /download (for saved attachments)

- /pictures (screenshots are saved in a subfolder under here)

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According to Titanium backup a lot of my games are stored in /data/app/xxxx. Is it possible to mount these locations?

Okay, after reading over 1000 messages I finally found reference to the "/ path" command which gets me access to the root. However, despite FM reporting /data/app to be 961Mb, when I navigate there the folder shows up empty. Any ideas?
[Android Software Development] Safar_Ibrahim:
I have my settings as below. Works flawlessly.
[Android Software Development] mauam:
Just want to say, you're amazing [MENTION=1436971]madmack[/MENTION].
[Android Software Development] madmack:
When you get into recovery, the sources are all empty folders and the destinations are filled with your data. Nandroid backs up the /system and /data partition (excluding the sdcard partition). So if you actually just nandroid backup and restore and not format your sdcards, then FM will just work as soon as you load it in your new ROM and restore its data given that the sources and destinations are still there and haven't changed paths.

FM backs up stuff in /sdcard or at least that's the intention. TB backs up stuff in /data/data so the two can work together without an issue. Titanium backup, by default, does not backup and restore these gigs of data that games dump into /sdcard/Android/* for example so TB will restore your apk + small data files, and FM can link the big stuff in sdcard that the app requires.

Me no have this issue. Unless you're mounting stuff in /data/data, this shouldn't be happening.

I would distribute a list of working apps/games if it made sense but it really doesn't. For example, Asphalt 8 (although reported not working by a few here) actually works perfectly fine on my Note 3 and Optimus G Pro. FM isn't really programmed to take care of list of apps (unlike other similar apps online), it is meant to just mirror sources and destinations. If you mirror stuff in /sdcard and only in that path, then there is no reason why an app would work and one wouldn't from a technical perspective. To the Android system, the files still exist in the internal sdcard and this is pretty global so no app will somehow not like "the binding" just because it could smartly figure it's being bound. It's just not possible. If an app doesn't work, things to check: a) permissions are correct, i.e. you can read/write to the source, b) there is enough space in your external sdcard and c) that the app in question isn't starting up before FM and therefore is using an empty source folder. You can force close the app and relaunch it after FM binds just to make sure this isn't happening.

I wouldn't think of touching /data/app. This is where your apks are stored, no subfolders are there that's why it shows up as empty in FM. FM WILL break your system if you move /data/app. Use other solutions for this kind of operation like apps2sd. Explanation: these apks need to exist at system bootup, and FM only binds your pairs after a little while from boot up so this won't work.
[Android Software Development] kaibosh99:
Thanks for the clarification. I have a couple of questions, though. For one thing, you seem to be saying that a nandroid backup will also backup the mounted data, but... I was under the impression that the external SD card was the only thing NOT included in a full nandroid image? Otherwise, I understand that the mounted data is 'foolproof' in the way anything sees it after it has been mounted, the thing you seem to not be able to believe is that errors can occur DURING the initial move. For me, when I went to move Asphalt 8 it said 'moving files' and then a second later it was done. Since I knew this was impossible I looked for the files, but they were gone from both internal and external SD. Like I said before, it took me a fair bit to understand that my missing space was in a 'lost & found' directory that none of about 12 apps I tried could clean from 4.3 code. Your stance was (and still is) that it is simply impossible for this to have been a Folder Mount issue. I am not sure why you would take this stance, given the wide range of hardware and roms and kernels you can't possibly put out a piece of code that is perfectly free of issues for everyone.

Once an app has been moved successfully, I have had zero issues with using the games. I think any issues people have had using FM have been stuff that goes wrong while moving the data. Whether this is from resident tweaks/apps or whatever, who knows. Since having a couple of dramatic failures I try to kill everything in the task manager and then while moving files I don't touch my phone at all.
[Android Software Development] madmack:
Both internal and external sdcard contents are excluded in nandroid backups. System apps and the apps you download from the play store are backed up. (their configuration, and small data files, not the big stuff they usually dump in /sdcard/Android/*. These aren't backed up).

Dude, what is your background? Are you a programmer? Do you know things work when you code for Android? There aren't 2 ways to fill a buffer, read from a file, and dump it into an output. There is only 1 way to do this. The android documentation will take care of it if "it doesn't work for all kernel and android rom versions". It just doesn't work this way. The file IO operations are not complicated. You write your android app once, it works for all unless a permission issue exists or something device specific with different paths and what not. I have two devices that I've tested asphalt with, guess what.. it works. Yes, the moving operation and all. These two devices aren't even by the same manufacturer. And no, developers aren't supposed to write 4 code segments for 4 different android versions for file IO. That would be ridiculous and a pure waste of time. Your issue, however, is well documented and is well known. Just googling around for "lost and found linux" will reveal a plethora of information for you. You seem hell bent on the issue being FolderMount's when no one else but you has this lost+found issue that is a well known fs directory structure in linux. I can only do so much to explain this to you.

I'm assuming a little tech savviness by the user when I code for a rooted app. After all, all users were able to root their phones and/or install custom roms. FM is just a switch; when it's off, sources are empty, when green, source & dest are mirrored. Nothing more, nothing less. If users have a problem moving stuff, they can try other file explorers. I don't guarantee apps compatibility or anything crazy like that (it's impossible to test all apps). All I guarantee is that two folders are mirrored and permissions are correct. That, and compatibility with future android versions.
[Android Software Development] kaibosh99:
I need to be a programmer to say that the only times a file move has failed on my phone has been when Folder Mount has been the app doing it? Seriously? Sheesh, do you have a background in child psychology? ...
[Android Software Development] egingell:
You're the only person with file moving issues which can't be replicated, but you're whining like it's a known issue that isn't being addresses. And now you're throwing a tantrum because the dev got a little curt with you?

There are a few things that can cause what you're describing: bad SD card, bad/insufficient RAM/cache, race conditions (two or more operations trying to access the same data).

I haven't read your posts... Have you even provided any logs?

Edit: P.S. I haven't tried this, but I'm guessing that Online Nandroid Backup will back up the internal SD card on phones with emulated storage since the data resides on the /data partition; however, it's probable that the dev coded for that.

Sent from my SGS4.
[Android Software Development] Droidphilev:
Hi,

Problems problems problems:

Today i upgraded my stockrom on my GT-I9205. After rebooting i saw that FM worked normally (notification) but it seemed that the mounts were not working. After opening FM it said there was something wrong with a "module" and it asked to fix this. A patch was downloaded. I rebooted and again i got a normal notification but the mounts were not made. So i uninstalled FM to start all over. BUT the source folder on my internal folder cannot be deleted anymore! Even not after uninstalling FM. Anyone can help please?

P.S.: if i reinstall FM and browse to this source folder in FM it says "mounted" while there are NO folderpairs set up.
[Android Software Development] madmack:
uninstall FM, reboot then delete/modify whatever you want.
[Android Software Development] madmack:
Yes, you do need to be a dev to understand what I'm saying and that explains why you're so clueless. I can't convince a person that can't read that the scripture they're looking at is words and letters.

One more thing, no one is forcing you to use my app. If you don't like what I'm doing here with my app, why are you using it? If you already paid, I'll be happy to give you a refund in exchange for you to leave that nonsense out of my thread.
[Android Software Development] Droidphilev:
Hi,

Well... i did what you advice here (i thought). The mistake i made was hot booting instead of full rebooting. There seems to be a big difference between those 2. I'm sorry for bothering you. It's all working again.
[Android Software Development] egingell:
Hot Boot doesn't unmount anything. I don't think it even executes init scripts.

Sent from my SGS4.
[Android Software Development] axel-529:
Going to try this one. I have been searching in the net for two days..
[Android Software Development] m4rk:
Full network access

Hi there,

The latest version of FolderMount on the Android store (v2.3.3) wants Full network access permissions. What do you need this for please?
[Android Software Development] madmack:
To download patched precompiled vold files for some non arm devices from the website and install it if the device is white listed. Please have a look at the change log as it contains these details.
[Android Software Development] airdmo:
Hello

Now,this apps can use in exFAT microSD card?my sony xperia zr(2.67,4.22) can support exFAT
[Android Software Development] shajvarg:
Some problems with Galaxy Note 3

hi,

I have bought folder mount.

when I first start it, it talks about the faulty module in the phone and offers to fix it.

after i reboot folder mounts works properly.

what I have noticed is if I allow folder mount to change the faulty module,

after some time the external sdcard becomes unaccessible.

no folders are seen in any file manager.

I have to unmount card from settings and then remount it.

Even after that the same thing repeats itself.

today when I installed the latest update to note 3 XXUCMJ7, after I rooted it, I prevented folder mount from

replacing the faulty module and till now the external sd card shows no problem.

Ofcourse I cannot use foldermount till I say yes to the fix.

Please find a solution.

Details

Galaxy Note 3 firmware N900XXUCMJ7 the problem was there also with N900XXUBMJ1

External Card : Sandisk 64GB sdxc formatted to exfat

Will it work better if the card is formatted to ext2 or some?

Thanks

Shaju