Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 23:20:45 +0100 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <2suv6lxdht.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net gdBbjfgssC5LAfyoI6Ul+gm8BHMGMbZVf1334rSBmBoVIXUcMJ X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:mTUbnDeoPUly8LnJjTETiLubXTw= sha256:HmyH0a36tQk6hJKsCIlW2nfs0bHfJcgQB9qwhgiXb6w= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3235 On 2025-02-02 19:20, Marion wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:41:48 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote : .... >> Nor would I intentionally label several cards with the same name. I >> want them different. > > I fully understand, and, in fact, for years, especially since nobody can > remember the crazy default volume names anyway, what I used to do was label > each card by the date that they were put in service, such as (for today): > 2025-0202 (for February 25th, 2025) > > But what happened was I slept on my first T-Mobile free phone, and it broke > the port (somehow) so I had T-Mobile replace it - and when I popped the old > card into the new phone, the old card was formatted with a name such as: > 2021-0501 (for May 1st, 2021) > > As a result, our beloved {OSMAnd~,OSMAnd+,OSMAnd} editor stopped finding > the gpx, kml, waypoint and map files painstakingly stored on that sdcard. > > That's when I realized the "trick" would work, so when I next doubled the > size of the sdcard from 32GB to 64GB, I used the trick and it worked. Ok, now that I understand what type of editor you are talking about and the scenario, I can agree that changing the label of the card is the thing to do. It is a particular scenario. Then, remember that you can just edit the label to anything without formatting, in Windows. There is a "label" command in MsDOS that should still be able to do the trick. That said, it happens that I can not quadruple the storage in my tablet, because the maximum size it accepts is not that large. .... -- Cheers, Carlos.