I have a Shield TV. I attached a 2TB external HDD to this and set it up as internal storage. I then transferred a bunch of movies and pictures to internal storage and set up KODI. Everything was fine up until about a month or so ago. I am not sure when exactly.
I went to view some of the pictures and learned that the folders I had put my pictures, movies and TV shows in are no longer available. I cannot find them in KODI, X-plore, or ES File explorer. I would say they may have been deleted by mistake but it appears that I still have them somewhere based on the amount of storage available. I had used about 1TB. I still have just over 1TB used, which would indicate the files are still there somewhere. My problem is that I cannot seem to find them. I tried plugging the HDD into my windows 7 pc it doesn't recognize it.
Any thoughts on how I can go about finding these files? I do not want to reformat as I know they will be wiped.
I found them. I used the Analyze option on ES File Explore and found them buried in the recycle bin. Along with a number of there needed files and folders.
I am the only person that uses this Shield TV. I did not delete these files and folders. Does anyone have an idea of what may have happened so I can avoid in the future?
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I have a portable hdd with about 90gb of music stored to it. I mount it to my rooted a500, and it works fine, to an extent. I can select a song, which it will play, but I can't find a music player which is able to use the /sda1 mount to manage the music folders, only from the SD cards.
Does anyone here have a solution, or know of a player that will do this for me?
Thanks in advance.
Same here. Im waiting for my iconia 500 and i have a 320gb external hdd with music+playlist (.zpl, which ill prob convert to .m3u if i have to). I'll need a player to handle my music and playlists via USB. Any recommendations?
Did you try Power Amp?
And I wouldn't search for sda but instead go to the source (/mnt/usb_drive or whatever it's called). It works fine from my thumb drive so I don't see why it wouldn't work my a HDD.
I did try Poweramp. In the select folders option, there are only selections for mnt/sdcard/xxx and mnt/external_SD/xxx. Since the hdd is formatted in ntfs, it is mounted as mnt/sda1, not mnt/USB_storage.
I could try having the hdd formatted as fat, but I have found the mnt/USB_storage to be very unreliable. It seems to need a reset very often in order to read the contents of a thumb drive, and also with the large amount of files, also seems to read them very slowly.
I bit the bullet and formatted my hdd to fat32. I used fat32formatter, nice and quick.
The a500 needed a reboot to read the files on the hdd, and I find disconnecting and re-connecting it, does require another re-boot to read again.
Poweramp and winamp both are no able to read the hdd, but took about 4 hours to scan the files and make a library from them.
I haven't added new music to the library, I'm really hoping that it won't need to re-scan all the files again. Fingers crossed.
Also looking for a solution to this, let, me know if anyone has a good organized music player.
saggsy said:
I did try Poweramp. In the select folders option, there are only selections for mnt/sdcard/xxx and mnt/external_SD/xxx. Since the hdd is formatted in ntfs, it is mounted as mnt/sda1, not mnt/USB_storage.
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I'm using Usb Mount All from the market which creates a symlink to mnt/sdcard/sda. All my apps can see and write on sda that way.
That's why I prefer Mount all over Drive mount.
Thanks bbivk, that app is exactly what I should have been using, it's so easy now.
Since I got my Tablet I have been copying music, pictures and some music videos on the internal SD via external mini SD. I created a few folders on the internal SD, wallpapers, pictures, video folders etc. and put files in said corresponding folders.
Today I finally installed WMP 11 so I can directly connect my tab to my pc for faster file transfering but when I plug in the tab the folders I have created including a few from installed apps do not show up, only the stock folders do...?
I put my movies etc. in the movie folder hoping that they would appear but they do not when plugged into the pc. What's the deal here??
I would install File Explorer HD and then you willbe able tower the files on your device, but in windows you'll only beable to see your memory cards and very little more.
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Hi all,
When I connect my Nexus 7 to my Win7 x64 laptop the system doesn't mount the tablet to a drive letter. It's listed a simply "Nexus 7". I can browse to it, but when I show file details it looks like the OS is thinking everything must be some kind of media (like music files) because the explorer window doesn't show the"modification time". It shows instead Track Number, Artist, Album, Year, Duration.
Thinking it might be Windows Explorer I've also tried Free Commander (a file browser) and get the same results.
Anyone know of a way to get Windows to see the files as something other than music files so I can see all the normal file attributes, especially mod time? The reason I want to do this is I have a bunch of epub files on the tablet and when I get new epubs it's easiest to sort by mod time and compare what's on the tablet vs. what's on my PC and copy all the files newer than the newest file on the tablet. This worked great on my Nook Color, and would love to be able to do the same with the Nexus. Right now it's a real challenge to figure out what I need to copy.
Thanks for any help!
UPDATE: After looking around some more I discovered that Windows 7 is seeing the Nexus as a "Portable Media Player", which is probably why it didn't mount the storage to a drive letter and thinks all the files are some kind of media, thus the file attributes Windows Explorer is showing. So now I guess the question is, how can I get Windows to think this is more than just a media player, and I guess mount the storage to a drive letter like you'd do with a USB flash drive or an external hard drive?
-Gary
gprichardson1 said:
Hi all,
When I connect my Nexus 7 to my Win7 x64 laptop the system doesn't mount the tablet to a drive letter. It's listed a simply "Nexus 7". I can browse to it, but when I show file details it looks like the OS is thinking everything must be some kind of media (like music files) because the explorer window doesn't show the"modification time". It shows instead Track Number, Artist, Album, Year, Duration.
Thinking it might be Windows Explorer I've also tried Free Commander (a file browser) and get the same results.
Anyone know of a way to get Windows to see the files as something other than music files so I can see all the normal file attributes, especially mod time? The reason I want to do this is I have a bunch of epub files on the tablet and when I get new epubs it's easiest to sort by mod time and compare what's on the tablet vs. what's on my PC and copy all the files newer than the newest file on the tablet. This worked great on my Nook Color, and would love to be able to do the same with the Nexus. Right now it's a real challenge to figure out what I need to copy.
Thanks for any help!
UPDATE: After looking around some more I discovered that Windows 7 is seeing the Nexus as a "Portable Media Player", which is probably why it didn't mount the storage to a drive letter and thinks all the files are some kind of media, thus the file attributes Windows Explorer is showing. So now I guess the question is, how can I get Windows to think this is more than just a media player, and I guess mount the storage to a drive letter like you'd do with a USB flash drive or an external hard drive?
-Gary
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Well, I feel a little foolish about being able to get the mod times on the files. I hardly ever use Windows Explorer so I didn't realize I could just click on the header area where it says "Name, Type, Size, etc.." and simply select "Modification Time". I clicked on that and Voila! the mod times were there for me.
But in the midst of my searching I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774556&highlight=portable+media+player
which had an interesting alternative called AirDroid:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid
It allows you to view the files on your Android device via wifi from any web browser on your PC/MAC/etc. I tried this app out and although the transfers were quite slow it's a pretty nifty way to copy files to/from an Android device, and it showed me the modification times!
-Gary
I have always just used Windows built in Picture and Video Transfer, I like how it renames and adds everything to the locations I choose ie: Home videos folder for videos and Picture library for pics.
What I want to do is import just my DCIM folder not Everything that is on my SDcard.
My S2 this worked fine.
I know I can drag and drop my dcim folder to a separate SDcard and then invoke the transfer, but it is a hassle. I also know Dropbox and cloud storage is probably the way to go but I have all my photos and video stored in my library on a NAS this way and would like to continue.
any ideas? How are you doing it?
Thanks-
Comatose1978
I just drag and drop everything...
WoodburyMan said:
I just drag and drop everything...
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Same. I just drag and drop things where I need them if I'm plugged in. But most of the time I just use AirDroid, so I can do it wirelessly. And in the past I also had an app (I don't recall the name) that when launched, would share the SD Card over the network, which Windows can then see. I created a shortcut in My Computer to that network drive, so it showed up like any other hard drive on my computer and I could drag and drop files to it. Was handy, but I haven't had much use for that lately, since everything is in the cloud now, and AirDroid works on nearly any network without any prior setup.
So I have both adopted storage and external storage drives on my Nvidia Shield. When I record a program on 'Live Channels' using the DVR, where does that saved file(s) go? To Adopted/Internal storage, or to External storage?
Also, if I do the same thing but in Plex (i.e. record/DVR a program), where does Plex store those DVRed files?
And finally, is there a way I can CHANGE where those files are saved? I've googled a bit but haven't found anything enlightening about where the files are stored nor how to change the path to use a specific storage area...
Thanks!
-Chimp (Tom)