XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:26:54 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote :   
      
      
   > very good at dreaming up non-problems   
      
   The main point of this thread was to purposefully helpfully inform people   
   of the rather useful approach of formatting the volume label of sd cards.   
      
   I have tested two scenarios, both of which work perfectly when you change   
   out the sd card - but only if you've matched their respective volume labels   
   1. When you move from phone a to phone b where b is a clone of a, and,   
   2. When you double (or triple, or whatever) the size of the memory card.   
      
   Having said that the most important point in this thread is that...   
      
   I realize Kenny McCormack is a common troll, but the point that shouldn't   
   be lost when these trolls try to waste our time is that formatting the new   
   sd card with the same name as the old sd card is a rather useful approach.   
      
   For media, in general, it doesn't matter if you copied your old DCIM folder   
   from your 64GB sd card to your new sd card, but for most modern editors   
   (which can store files on the external portable memory card), it does   
   matter.   
      
   A classic example these ignorant trolls like Kenny McCormack don't   
   understand is the case of OSM map editors, which can store their *huge* map   
   (and other associated KML, GPX, etc.) databases on the external sd card.   
      
   When you double the size of your portable memory, the existing installed   
   editors such as OSMAnd~ don't even realize the card was swapped out on it.   
      
   Likewise for most modern editors. They still find their external files, but   
   only if you've thought ahead by matching the entire filespec exactly.   
      
   Interestingly, what does seem to work even without matching the volume   
   label, is "media files" tend to be found even when the volume label changes   
   (which I suspect is due to a file-type tag that the operating system adds).   
      
   Does anyone have more detail on how that file-type tag works in the   
   specific case of switching from one filespec to another in the volume label   
   when a typical user (who doesn't know the trick) inserts a new sd card?   
      
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