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[tutunkommon]

I tried searching, and am surprised I didn't find any other threads on this.

I have an Acer Iconia Tab a500. For some reason, they decided to name the SD card /mnt/external_sd/ and the internal memory as /mnt/sdcard/

Stupid, I know. The problem is that everything is being stored on the internal memory, and nothing is being put onto the external card.

I'd really like a way that I can go into the settings of the android app and set a path to store all my offline notebooks. Currently my external SD card is useless because of this stupid naming convention. In the future though, I can see people wanting to be able to set their paths directly for organization purposes.

Is this possible already? (Didn't see it if it is.) Can it be added?

Thanks!

[aliyah]

I think this is possible, but I don't quite remember how to do it. I was able to store my information on my smart card and that worked really well for me when I switched phones. It was complicated when I did it, which is why I can't remember all the steps.

[tutunkommon]

Anyone else have thoughts on this? There is a forehead shaped dent in my wall currently.

Thanks for any insight.

--Joe

[jonestkbz]

I have the same issue with my Toshiba Thrive, but my sd card is called something like /sd card/disk 0/

I hear that 3.2 fixes this.. but Im not sure it does and Im not sure if Toshiba is ever coming out with an update....

Evernote team, please add the ability to adjust the location of my SD card! Thanks

[hgarg]

Hi Guys,
We use standard Android api to get path of the sdcard.
Its sad that couple of devices including Toshiba returns path of the internal file system instead of SDcard path.
We will look into it and investigate if there is any clean solution.

Thanks,
Hemant

[countesslilith]

Hi Guys,
We use standard Android api to get path of the sdcard.
Its sad that couple of devices including Toshiba returns path of the internal file system instead of SDcard path.
We will look into it and investigate if there is any clean solution.

Thanks,
Hemant

Hemant,
Have you found anything out regarding this problem?

Thanks.

[jfouellette]

Hi, I am a Premium user.

I have just switched phones for a Motorola Razr XT910 with Android 2.3.5 and the problem of "SDcard" now being internal memory and "SDcard-ext" being the actual external card has become a problem. Evernote will only store to the internal memory (i.e SDCard) and there is no way to pick my own path for storing my offline notes.

We need a fix a for this please.

My girlfriend just purchased a Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE with android 2.3.5 also and she has the same problem as me.

P.S Our old phones were Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 who only had external storage.

[heather]

You *can* do this with a few unsupported "Tricks."

1. You will likely need to root your device.

I know of one "mod" that exists to take the mounted external SD card and "add" it to your internal memory, so that the space is available for apps to use in that manner.

I know of one *ROM* that rewrites the filesystem to make it look like a normal one, and allow Evernote and other apps to work properly.

And, as a third option, you could use a symbolic link/alias from your Evernote data directory on the internal card to one created on the SD card.

[jfouellette]

My phone is already rooted ;-)

Thank you for this. I will try the symbolic link trick.

[jfouellette]

Symlink will not do. SD Card is formatted with FAT.

What is this "mod" you are talking about, can you be more specific please?

[heather]

There's a mod in CM7 - "int2ext" that is available on certain builds. Here is not the place for more info on that

[jfouellette]

Thank you I understand.

Googled a few keywords and found it on the "umentionnable forum" we won't mention here ;-)

[brsnyder]

I just learned about the whole "SD means internal SD not external SD" when I had to have my phone replaced. I thought I had some important info backed up to my SD card. Haha for me! It was on the phone, and thus it was all lost. SO annoying!!

Anyway, I second or third or whatever the request to add the option to set offline storage path in Settings. I've been having lots of problems even with my "new" (as in refurbished replacement) phone, and have had to reset it more than once. I really want to keep all my important info on the real actual SD card, aka sd-ext.

Thanks -- Barbara

P.S. My phone is not rooted and I really don't want to go there.

[alessio]

Please, EN, please do implement selectable offline storage folder path.
My main motivation is to be able to point EN to encrypted folder on my SD card.
I understand that this represents problem with EN widgets, but I really don't need
or use EN widgets. I keep some private data in EN notes and I would be really
happy to keep them private even if my phone gets stolen or lost.

(I would gladly pay 2x premium subscription fee if you implement this.)

[hjbortol]

Hi!

I'm with the same problem: Evernote is storing all offline data in the internal memory of my Asus Transformer TF101. The internal memory is labeled "/mnt/sdcard" while to external MicroSD is labeled "/Removable/MicroSD/". I think this change of paths is confusing Android Evernote.

It would be nice if this problem could be fixed.

Thanks, Humberto.

[mijj]

this thread on the issue of specifying offline storage to external SD was started 1st August 2011.

It's now 14th June 2012 and not even a trace of progress.

Being able to select a location for storage away from internal storage is a significant feature. Given that applications of all kinds don't seem to have any problems providing this, it would appear to be trivial to implement.

So, the lack of action can only imply that evernote has no intention of implementing this. (Why? .. who knows. Presumably someone thinks it would be a great idea to not be able to store offline info on external SD).

At the moment, i'm not bumping my head with storage requirements. But, if i use this application seriously then it won't be long before i have to start juggling to fit into limited space .. because evernote won't provide this simple, but essential, funcitonality.

So .. is there any point having the premium account if offline storage is going to be a headache?

[tomw]

I really would need the feature to have the offline notebooks on the external SD on my Galaxy Note. Internal is pretty cramped already. Please Evernote Team, address this!

[jfouellette]

I reported this 6 months ago and no real solutions have been provided for this problem. Me and my girlfriend are both Premium users since I convinced her to join, but we both have the same problem on two different phones; My Razr xt910 and her Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE.

Offline notes will soon become a big no for us.

[Rosalie]

Add me to the list of Premium users who are requesting the ability to choose the path for Evernote to save files to. Having to copy/move files manually or use a convoluted workaround is a real pain. This was being discussed in a tablet forum I belong to, and others expressed their frustration with this issue as well. Just wondering why we aren't being given this option? Is there some reason it just can't be done, or is it that only a relative few of us are requesting it? This issue it the one thorn in my side in an otherwise wonderful Evernote experience.

[sch01ar]

+1 for me. Evernote team needs to address this, otherwise there will come a time when I, and many others, I'm sure, will migrate from Evernote as our tablets fill up with offline notebooks. Not good.