XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-01-31 22:18, Marion wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It would be clever if you used the label command instead of format :-p   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I disagree. It is useful for your scenario, it is not for my scenarios.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Not so. You can use relative paths.   
      
      
   >   
   > 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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