First android I ever had was a Galaxy S2. Goddammit that phone was so nice. I even bought a 2nd one when the first one died. But android file trees are way easier to navigate than iOS.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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There's a app called files that takes you to your saved storage, it's not even difficult
Would anyone know where wallpapers are stored? I took a picture with an older phone (Oneplus 6) and used it as such. I upgraded to Nothing Phone 1 and I am using it as wallpaper because it copied when migrating but I cannot find anywhere for the life of me!
If it was using a version of android, photos are usually stored in DCIM folders either on your phone's internal storage or more likely on the SD card.
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Android 14 :/
sudo rm rf /*
Most (all?) Iapps save images in /Pictures/[appname]
Photos taken with the camera are stored in a subfolder under/DCIM/ for example /DCMI/camera.
All my downloaded files end up in /Downloads/
The path to downloads is technically /storage/emulated/0/Downloads
But that doesn't really ever matter because /storage/emulated/0/ is treated as root in at least the two file explorers I have.
If I mount another storage device it will probably be mounted in some weird path, but too don't matter since file browsers will hide that.
The only time it matters for me is when using termux. The home directory has some weird ass path (/data/data/com.termux/files/home) when using termux which can make it annoying to transfer files. BUT Android storage gets mounted as ~/storage/emulated/0/. So transferring files from downloads to termux home, is as simple as cp ~/storage/emulated/0/downloads/file.txt ~/
Accessing the files from an app is very annoying and complicated, and that's if not completely restricted.
Accessing the dirs you often need is very easy
whqt does emulated here mean
It's an emulated FAT SD card for compatibility. Android uses a Linux file system with file permissions and modern features, but exposes it as a fake (emulated) FAT SD card.
Google's files app really helps with this
file - downloads
me: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/Download or /storage/3564-3130/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/Download here I come!
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In the Downloads or Pictures folder , under the name of the application. I am shocked that this isn't common knowledge.
You can usually see this as a notification - and tapping on that notification should open the file, wherever it is. As for the specific location, I'd expect it to be /storage/emulated/0/Download most of the times.