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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows &
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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 19:17:31 +0000
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Marion wrote:

> In all fairness to Andy, whom I know to be an intelligent and thoughtful
> person, I belatedly realize that Andy seems to think the sd card has only
> one purpose - which is to extend the memory of the Android phone.
> 
> Which is a worthless concept nowadays... I agree.
> 
> I partly helped Andy be confused because I interchangably used the word
> "storage" and "memory" where that's what threw Andy off the main track.

I'm aware that with removable SDcards, you have a choice to "adopt" it 
as an extension of the internal storage, or keep it separate as external 
(and removable) card, no doubt you do the latter.

I just find I don't use my phone as portable storage, I have USB devices 
or cloud storage for that.