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>Current Android Settings are great, at least in stock Android.

They still won't tell you what drives an app is using data on. I need to free up space somewhere but can't tell where.



Huh? The user data partitions were merged years ago.


The space the app is using on SD is being lumped in with the internal space. It's telling me audible is using tonnes of space but that's all on SD.

And don't get me started on the shitty Google apps that can't be removed or moved to SD.


Sadly the Android storage terminology is a mess.

These days what comes up as the SD is more correctly a folder on the emmc (internal storage).

Its just that for legacy reasons it is treated as the primary removable storage by Android.

There is a Android/data/"app vendor uri"/ tree within that simulated SD that is used as a dumping ground for various files.


So apps that think they're storing things on SD are actually using internal storage? How do I actually use the SD card then?




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