# Android file manager/sd problem

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-file-manager-sd-problem/571116>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 12, 2011, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-file-manager-sd-problem/571116 "2011-02-12T09:46:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-file-manager-sd-problem/571116/1 "2011-02-12T09:46:13Z")

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I have one of these [http://www.telstra.com.au/bigpond-internet/mobile-broadband/mobile-tablets/telstra-t-touch-tab/](http://www.telstra.com.au/bigpond-internet/mobile-broadband/mobile-tablets/telstra-t-touch-tab/)  
I looooove it - however I never seem to have enough storage space  
At the moment my storage is as follows: Interal tablet storage  
Total space 175 mb  
Available space 7.69 mb  
SD card  
Total space 3.69 gb  
Available space 3.35 gb

So I’m thinking to myself that I have over 3 gb on the SD card - why not move some stuff from the tablet memory to the SD card - Fine only I can find no frakken way to do it. I tried to use Astro file manager which has a move option but I couldn’t work out how it worked. I can backup stuff onto the card but cannot get things to move. Any folks out there with a solution.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@Captain\_Morgan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Morgan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-file-manager-sd-problem/571116/2 "2011-02-12T10:35:26Z")

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That feature only became available with android 2.2 and it looks like your tablet runs 2.1.

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-file-manager-sd-problem/571116/3 "2011-02-12T12:03:20Z")

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Even on 2.2 you can only move part of the application to the SD. The only solution for devices with limited internal storage is flashing a custom rom with app2sd capability and creating an extra EXT2 partition on the SD. Then the device will see the EXT2 partition as an extension of the internal storage.

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