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Android rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] astral_avocado 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Please someone tell me why androids filesystem structure is so damn confusing, I've wondered this forever but have never looked it up

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have spent weeks setting up LineageOs for my unsupported phone and I think I understood it.

So /storage/emulated/0 is practically your home directory, all folders you can easily change are there.
I don’t understand these memes, everything gets saved to /Downloads. The default file explorer is just crap. I use amaze
the only really weird directory is the camera, it is saved in DCIM
If you care about app specific app data go to /Android/data (for me its like the .config directory)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just guessing here, but if I recall correctly, android was started as an OS for digital cameras. So saving camera files to DCIM (Digital Camera Images) makes sense as that is standard to most other cameras

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well usually you had your Download folder like in pc. Now every app has its own secured workspace where only it can access it's files. If you want to download to the original download folder your app needs full storage access. And since people don't know how to code they download into the secure app storage often.

So now your download is in Android/media/domain.app.name/Download

Great, isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's been turbo janky for ages... It really does need to be sorted out.