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From: Andrews <andrews@spam.net>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Why is Android creating (garbage?) external sdcard directories?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 14:48:06 -0000 (UTC)
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R.Wieser wrote on Fri, 1 Nov 2024 18:56:36 +0100 :

> The problem is that you think the SD card is yours to manage, while Android 
> thinks its his.  And I'm afraid that Android can out-stubborn you. :-( :-)
> 
> IOW, don't try to fight it, its not something you can win.
> 
> What you /could/ do is to, on the 'puter, write a bit of code/script that 
> will remove all empty (root) folders from the SD card.  A clean-up so to 
> speak.

That was a good way to put it, which is that Android owns that sdcard.
Not us.

The good news is I wiped out everything on the sdcard except the one
top-level folder that I had created on it just after formatting it.

And it still worked.

The Android garbage folders came back though, as you implied they would.

Android owns that card. Not me. :->