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1/10/2018 6:03 AM
 

Is there a way to force iFly to store all it's data on the SD card, rather than main memory?  Even the chart updates, because it seems that a chart update sets the data back into main memory.  I even tried (with an app) to move the program and it's data to the SD card but now it's back clogging up main (LIMITED) memory with nearly 6 Gb.

Thanks.

 
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1/10/2018 6:33 AM
 

The way this is supposed to work is via Menu > Check for Updates > Advanced Options > Change Storage Location ... .  From there, you should be able to select either internal memory or the SD card, and then *all* of the downloaded data should go to the selected location.  Is that the method you are having problems with?

That function has always worked for me, on four different Android devices and several different versions of Android (except for one time when I had a faulty (fraudulent?) SD Card that reported it was twice as large as it really was, and went haywire when its used space exceeded 50%).

Since iFly is designed to manage the storage location internally, I can see where trying to change that location via OS settings might cause issues.

Note that due to oddities in how Android deals with internal/external memory, you may have more than two options for your storage location.  Typically, the duplicates are of the internal partition, and I think it has to do with legacy compatibility stuff, but I think it's possible to see duplicates of the external storage also.  It should be easy to tell which one(s) is(are) the SD card by the info provided on storage partition size and how much of that is currently in use.

 
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1/10/2018 7:29 AM
 

ok, set for SD card.  However, the tablet is still showing 6 Gb being used internally.  Is this the duplicate files issue again?

 

 
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1/10/2018 2:07 PM
 
SkyPuppy wrote:

ok, set for SD card.  However, the tablet is still showing 6 Gb being used internally.  Is this the duplicate files issue again?

 

When you choose to transfer the files to SDCard storage location from within iFly -- and then restart, how long does this process take (on startup)... and when it's complete, do you actually see any change in internal disk usage?

For some devices, there are multiple storage locations, some of which sound like a removable SdCard, but in truth are still internal storage.

Please do "Menu=> About => Send Bug Report" and reference this thread in the email body.   I'll take a look at the log file and see what your partitions look like.


Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer
 
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