• noneya
    1•2 years ago

    Yeah…I don’t have any issues with file management on Android. There’s a folder structure and that’s all I really need. 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
      1•2 years ago

      My problem with it is how inconsistently things get placed.

      App downloaded an image: it could be in the apps main data folder, DCIM, Pictures, Documents, or even a new folder at the base of the tree. Add an sd card and that list doubles as all those same locations exist separately on the sd card as well. (I’ve had images land in all 10 of these locations before)

      /edit missed the ‘download’ folder. 12 possible locations.

      • @Robaque@feddit.it
        1•2 years ago

        Downloads have always gone to the downloads folder for me

        But yes any app that takes/edits pictures can save them who the fuck knows where lol

        • @CoderKat@lemm.ee
          1•2 years ago

          Browsers put em in the downloads folder, but every other app is a wild west for me. Most Reddit and messaging apps I had downloaded to their own little folder.

  • @deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip
    13•2 years ago

    Files are soo outdated. The user should not have to worry about “Files”. What even is a " Directory"? Your nudes are on some guys computer in california but the world is in your hand. there is an app for everything, just use the apps, go with the flow, look at lots of ads, buy a tesla, tell your dirty secrets to google bard — everything is intuitive…

    • @CoderKat@lemm.ee
      1•2 years ago

      For all apps? Eg, chrome for me doesn’t do that for any of my phones (including on a Pixel).

    • @heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de
      1•2 years ago

      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)
  • @MossMonger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1•1 year ago

    Can one of many the actually-tech-competent humans in the comments please explain why i can never download a pdf of an online recipe unless i send it to myself through a messaging app from my laptop 😭 😭 😭

  • @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
    1•2 years ago

    Pdf opens in Google drive OK fine. Pdf closes so I have to reopen. Google drive is looking at me like this meme ape.

    Can go into files to access it but still

  • @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
    16•2 years ago

    Android’s file structure is bad, yes. But does iOS even have a file structure? In my very limited time using iOS, I couldn’t find anything resembling a file explorer.

          • @itsJoelle@lemmy.world
            -1•2 years ago

            I think it’s fine for the handsets, but if they’re trying to push the iPad as a “semi computer” for the general consumer it really needs to be revamped. You can do many of the same things file managers do on other operating systems, but it’s extremely non-intuitive at times — so many users think the functionality is missing. Because if they don’t know it’s there it might as well be!

    • hellishharlot
      -1•2 years ago

      It does have a files app now and it’s so good compared to Android file apps right now

    • @anewbeginning@lemmy.world
      -1•2 years ago

      It does. But most of it is locked to the user. Mostly, it’s just the user directory that you have access to, which is the correct way.

    • @where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
      7•2 years ago

      we had a ducking sane file structure on symbian. Before apple knew what smartphone means. We had sane file structure on siemens phones.

      There’s no excuse for the unholy abomination of what manufacturers call an “operating system” on a smartphone these days.

      • masterofn001
        2•2 years ago

        Peak symbian was the sony ericsson p1i.

        Had a gf throw that thing against a cinder block wall, off a concrete floor, and basically explode everywhere. i picked upthe parts, snapped it back together, turned it back on and left.

    • @SixTrickyBiscuits@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      Ah see, the problem is you were looking in /sdcard0/ which of course, refers to your internal storage and not your SD card which is probably called /0xgg0gdjdsjgg/ or something.