From: mills37.fslife@gmail.com
On 18/01/2026 09:32, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Roger Mills wrote:
>> On 17/01/2026 19:18, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>> Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>>> I have an old android phone, running under system version 9. It has an
>>>>> app in internal storage called "Notepad" which contains lots of useful
>>>>> stuff.
>>>>> I want that on my PC, but, when I connect it by USB I can't find it
>>>>> anywhere in the "internal storage" files that are displayed, and there
>>>>> are lots of those.
>>>>
>>>> If you mean you can't find the *files* which are used/created by the
>>>> Notepad app, then it's probably that these files are kept in app-
>>>> private
>>>> storage.
>>>>
>>>> App-private storage is normally not visible/accessible, but
>>>> should be
>>>> visible/accessible when the phone is (MTP) connected via USB to a
>>>> Windows system.
>>>>
>>>> However app-private storage is not in the 'normal' folders, but in
>>>> \Android\data\, or \Android\obb\ or
>>>> \Android\media\, where is the app's 'id=...' name as
>>>> listed in the app's entry on Google Play. For example the of
>>>> the Google Maps app is 'com.google.android.apps.maps' as shown
>>>> on
>>>> >>> id=com.google.android.apps.maps>
>>>> So for Google Maps the relevant (top-level) folder is
>>>> Internal storage\Android\data\com.google.android.apps.maps
>>>>
>>>> There are apps which can show the for installed apps, i.e.
>>>> for your Notepad app, but normally, Android does not show that info.
>>>>
>>>> If you can not find the or can not find the needed files in
>>>> the \Android\... folders, you can check if the Notepad app can save,
>>>> share, export the needed 'useful stuff' to 'normal' folders which you
>>>> *can* access. Compare it to your e-mail client (Betterbird): Its
>>>> 'profile' folder is mostly useless gobbledegook, but you can save/
>>>> export
>>>> the messages to normal files.
>>>>
>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for that, Frank. I've searched the lot and I can't find it
>>> anywhere. Perhaps the app doesn't use .text format. I think it came
>>> with the Hawaii phone.
>>> BTW, nearly all the folders are empty; just a few .text files such as
>>> logs.
>>>
>>> ED
>>
>> If I understand you correctly, in your first post you say that it is
>> possible to attach the desired files to a email. If all elso fails,
>> can't you do that and email them to yourself? I accept that it will be
>> a bit balls aching if there are a lot of them.
>>
>> For sending files from my Anroid devices to my PC I always use ES File
>> Manager (which is no longer available in the Play Store because of
>> some alleged security risk - so you have to sideload it). That sets up
>> an FTP server on the Anroid device, and you need to install an FTP
>> server on the Windows system to connect to it. That does everything I
>> need, but if you can't see the files when using a USB connection, you
>> may not be able to see them in that either!
>
> As you say, the file in question isn't visible in either a USB
> connection nor an email attachment dialogue. I wonder why not. I think
> Huawei must have set it that way.
> Ah well, I'll have to live without it.
>
> Thanks for your reply and comments,
>
> Ed
I asked ChatGPT where your data is likely to be, and this is what it said:
https://chatgpt.com/share/696cbabf-ea28-8007-a40a-52ce78697b44
Do you have details of the precise "Notebook" app which you're using?
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Cheers,
Roger
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