Giving up control bit by bit
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I find it funny that there's a bunch of people here who know how to use android's file system. Like, of course the Linux nerds figured out how to use it (and I love you all the more for it)
Varies a ton between apps, some use private app storage on Android too (only accessible with root) or in appdata storage (restricted to system apps), or in scattered folders under the regular "user data" folders (easiest by far)
Bonus points if you have an SD card, double bonus points if you manage to have 2 of them, because then you have multiple copies of these standard user data folders
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I find it funny that there's a bunch of people here who know how to use android's file system. Like, of course the Linux nerds figured out how to use it (and I love you all the more for it)
It's one of the most frustrating things ever. Anyone acting like navigating Android's files is anything similar to navigating any desktop computer's files needs some perspective. "You said this is difficult, but for me it's easy, therefore it's actually easy."
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Opens the files app which shows all files that were recently downloaded from any app to the file system.
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No error or anything, but it just doesn't have the
/etc/samba/smb.conffile. Just doesn't have it.dpkg -S sambadoes find/usr/share/samba/smb.confwhich isn't the right file either.wrote on last edited by [email protected]You're confusing the command again
-L, --listfiles package-name... List files installed to your system from package-name. -S, --search filename-search-pattern... Search for a filename from installed packages.dpkg -S /my/file/pathFinds which, installed, package installed the file.
dpkg -L samba | grep .confGreps through the list of files installed by a given package.
If the file you want isn't in there then it wasn't installed by the package itself (could be created on the fly by the binary for example), in which case obviously the package system can't track it.
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Yeah, developers can't access those folders without some super specific permissions, so most just use the dedicated app folder.
I have learned the horrors of Apple since getting this thing. Like it for drawing and 3D sculpting, but that's about it.
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As a long time linux user, I think all programs should have a config gui. (Not all, but you get what I mean)
I think it should be GUI config or detailed man page/readme. The amount of assumed end-user knowledge by devs is way too high.
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Android is pretty bad in many regards
But it has the best, most human-friendly user interface ever. Especially on tablets
And I’m ready to die on that hill xD
I will only grant that, assuming we are only looking at current popular smartphone OS's ... and you turn off gestures
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It literally does show up under recent for me. I used the screen recorder built in stock and it shows up as a recent file. Did you even try to do this exact thing?
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Windows is more like, oh that file you saved earlier? Yeah we moved that to OneDrive. You want it back? Sorry didn't pay your OneDrive subscription fee, so you don't actually have that file anymore. Hope it wasn't something irreplaceable like your kid's baby photos or anything lol.
You are just making shit up
Just pathetic stuff, missing up stories to simp for an OS.
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That's like piling all your paperwork on your office desk in a giant tower in the order they came in and arguing that's just as good as sorting them into files and putting them in the cabinet.
Is this your first file system? It literally does sort it into "videos" if I have a video or "images" if it's an image. What do you crack heads want it to do?
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I have learned the horrors of Apple since getting this thing. Like it for drawing and 3D sculpting, but that's about it.
You should see how much developing for apple hurts when using a multiplatform ecosystem.
In Flutter for example, there are entire documentation sections on "Apple is incredibly stupid and needs special care"
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I use Windows and have never encountered what you are describing.
none of my files have ever been 'moved' to OneDrive and none of my files that are on OneDrive have ever been locked behind a paywall.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If you save some files on the desktop or documents, and OneDrive activates it's backups later, it will forcefully move your files to the cloud.
And if you're not a paying customer and have gigabytes of data, it will shit itself midway to bark at you to pay up because your free 5Gb is up.
Now, a normal, regarded dumbass (the target audience) would just pay the tax, but if you have an IQ above that of average coral reef you can take your data back by quitting onedrive, copying everything back, and disabling onedrive backup.
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I use Root Explorer.
A shocking number of Android devices ship without a file browser installed from the vendor at all. If you want one you have to install it yourself. This is baffling to me.
That's fucked, the more android progresses the less usable it becomes it seems. Even budget 2.3 phones had it built-in afaik
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Opens the files app which shows all files that were recently downloaded from any app to the file system.
I do that with my email. Email has a search function - if I don't know a key word in the email or approximately when it came in, how would I know that I found it if I ever found it in some other way?
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Varies a ton between apps, some use private app storage on Android too (only accessible with root) or in appdata storage (restricted to system apps), or in scattered folders under the regular "user data" folders (easiest by far)
Bonus points if you have an SD card, double bonus points if you manage to have 2 of them, because then you have multiple copies of these standard user data folders
MediaStore recreating the standard Android library folder layout on my SD card no matter how many times I deleted them was infuriating.
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It used to be so much simpler. I remember having a Galaxy S3 and whenever I saved a file I knew exactly where it went. There was a file explorer built in, and downloads went to the downloads folder.
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I have learned the horrors of Apple since getting this thing. Like it for drawing and 3D sculpting, but that's about it.
Oh, so you are a grass trainer? Why, I often roleplay as a Shaymin
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Oh, so you are a grass trainer? Why, I often roleplay as a Shaymin
How many gym badges you got??
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You're confusing the command again
-L, --listfiles package-name... List files installed to your system from package-name. -S, --search filename-search-pattern... Search for a filename from installed packages.dpkg -S /my/file/pathFinds which, installed, package installed the file.
dpkg -L samba | grep .confGreps through the list of files installed by a given package.
If the file you want isn't in there then it wasn't installed by the package itself (could be created on the fly by the binary for example), in which case obviously the package system can't track it.
Oh I see, this command didn't really do what I wanted it to do then. I just wanted to be able to see the locations of any files associated with a program. If I knew the file path I could just find them haha
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I will only grant that, assuming we are only looking at current popular smartphone OS's ... and you turn off gestures
Man I hate gestures. I'd happily use a phone twice as thick if it meant a real keyboard with real function buttons. (I have large hands and blunt fingers, little touchpad keyboard is a nightmare and there's no easy way to attach a stylus of comfortable size)
