dianehelen
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- Oct 8, 2011
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Hi there...
Im sorta new here, and very new to Android and Tablets. My sweet love of my life husband came home and surprised me with an Acer Iconia A500 and Im trying to familiarize myself with some of it.
Im pretty technical so you dont have to explain like to a puppy
I am able to get around pretty well, get apps, etc, get all my fun stuff working, Pandora, Spotify, Skype, Remote Desktop, etc.. but what seems to be a little puzzling is the file management.
I am guessing from what I see from the one app I did get that seems to do some of what I want, Ghost Commander, that the file system, similar to my Palm Pre, is actually in Linux, which is somewhat familar to me, so Im ok there. But what seems to be a bit strange, is how I have to maneuver between what seems to be a default download mounted virtual SD card, and my actual readable to the device directories.
The example I will offer is downloading pictures from my FTP site, and how to "easily" get them to land in a folder, where I can easily see, from one of the (maybe too) many photo viewer apps. I can log into my FTP, navigate to where I want, then copy the pics to the tablet. But When I do that they seem to default land in that virtually mounted sd card directory. I have sorta stumbled thru the process and figured out how to create folders in my local storage and move the pics to there. Doable, but cumbersome.
then the next issue, is after I do that and go the a photo app, I do not see the newly created folder??
I have had to reboot the device, then it seems to recognise the folder.
Then there is the issue of having to go thru 3 different torrent clients before one worked. I downloaded a movie, and had a heck of a time finding where it landed, and how to go about renaming it and getting it where the device would see it?
Am I making sense, or just missing something, that this should be easier, like for the general public, that may not even be savvy about moving files around/
TIA for ANY help, any kind smart folks here can offer.
Diane
Im sorta new here, and very new to Android and Tablets. My sweet love of my life husband came home and surprised me with an Acer Iconia A500 and Im trying to familiarize myself with some of it.
Im pretty technical so you dont have to explain like to a puppy
I am able to get around pretty well, get apps, etc, get all my fun stuff working, Pandora, Spotify, Skype, Remote Desktop, etc.. but what seems to be a little puzzling is the file management.
I am guessing from what I see from the one app I did get that seems to do some of what I want, Ghost Commander, that the file system, similar to my Palm Pre, is actually in Linux, which is somewhat familar to me, so Im ok there. But what seems to be a bit strange, is how I have to maneuver between what seems to be a default download mounted virtual SD card, and my actual readable to the device directories.
The example I will offer is downloading pictures from my FTP site, and how to "easily" get them to land in a folder, where I can easily see, from one of the (maybe too) many photo viewer apps. I can log into my FTP, navigate to where I want, then copy the pics to the tablet. But When I do that they seem to default land in that virtually mounted sd card directory. I have sorta stumbled thru the process and figured out how to create folders in my local storage and move the pics to there. Doable, but cumbersome.
then the next issue, is after I do that and go the a photo app, I do not see the newly created folder??
I have had to reboot the device, then it seems to recognise the folder.
Then there is the issue of having to go thru 3 different torrent clients before one worked. I downloaded a movie, and had a heck of a time finding where it landed, and how to go about renaming it and getting it where the device would see it?
Am I making sense, or just missing something, that this should be easier, like for the general public, that may not even be savvy about moving files around/
TIA for ANY help, any kind smart folks here can offer.
Diane
