[ale] Slightly OT: decent disk usage/file viewer for Android?

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Hmm.  When I'm on the go and have to show someone a problem, running 
home to pry the holster apart, then pry the case apart, to take out the 
SD, to stuff it elsewhere, doesn't fit my workflow.   YMMV.

Conveniently, RTA Pro offers no options w.r.t. where it saves.  It SAYS 
in the save dialog that it is saving to the SD-Card.    It then throws 
up a Toast for a few seconds, which I have captured.  It says it has 
saved my audio frequency scan screenshot to 
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/radonsoft.net/rtapro/files/RtaGraph.jpg.

Taking a wild guess, and using the native Samsung My Files app, and 
looking at the SD card, the Android folder has a data folder which SAYS 
it has 200 items in it.

However, click on that data folder, and it shows one folder - 
com.sec.android.app.myfiles.   Hmm.  Where did the other 199 items go?

It is feeling to me like another non-helpful helpful attempt by Android 
apps to hide things from me that might hurt me.

regards,

Neal


On 2022-03-12 11:37, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> On 3/12/22 09:37, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a dependable Files/Disk Usage/Storage app which sees 
>> everything?
> 
> I keep all data on the external SD card, then move it to Linux when I
> want to do file operations. Nothing hidden that way. Full access to
> the tools. Plus, I like to swap out different music from time to time.
> I'm not an internet streamer.
> 
> ncdu is handy, if you have time. It isn't exactly fast, since it does
> recursive du's to gather data.
> 
> OTOH, cannot say that I've ever attached or resized a photo to an
> email from a phone. Photo sharing happens later, after removing
> metadata, cropping, etc. Could be that my $99 phone isn't all that
> phun to use?
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