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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CosmicFlowchart@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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[–] astral_avocado@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Please someone tell me why androids filesystem structure is so damn confusing, I've wondered this forever but have never looked it up

[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have spent weeks setting up LineageOs for my unsupported phone and I think I understood it.

  • So /storage/emulated/0 is practically your home directory, all folders you can easily change are there.
  • I don’t understand these memes, everything gets saved to /Downloads. The default file explorer is just crap. I use amaze
  • the only really weird directory is the camera, it is saved in DCIM
  • If you care about app specific app data go to /Android/data (for me its like the .config directory)
[–] karstin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just guessing here, but if I recall correctly, android was started as an OS for digital cameras. So saving camera files to DCIM (Digital Camera Images) makes sense as that is standard to most other cameras

[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that thanks.

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