Mine is a Samsung Galaxy S5. Forgot to say that in my first post. So bottom line is...How can I get K9 file size to a much smaller number?
I tried limiting the message limit to a much smaller amount (instead of all messages) but that did not shrink the file size at all. How can we tell WHAT inside of K9 is worth 2 GB of storage space? thank you, Cindy On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 4:44:23 AM UTC-5, Philip Whitehouse wrote: > > So I did some research and yes that would be nice... > > Unfortunately from Android's perspective /storage/emulated/0 is > considered external storage. Basically the device manufacturer gets to > decide what external storage really is. It's better classified as > "typically fixed on device storage logically separated from the normal > storage" > > The very fact that the Nexus line doesn't contain removable storage > options tells you how much Google care about this. > > See > > https://commonsware.com/blog/2014/04/08/storage-situation-external-storage.html > > for the completely insane tortured logic that gets you there. > > Also: > > https://commonsware.com/blog/2014/04/09/storage-situation-removable-storage.html > > > What you think of 'external storage' is better named 'removable > storage'. > > And for Android 4.4 the problem is (again quoting): > > "... apps cannot write to or otherwise modify such removable storage. > Note that device manufacturers themselves may have ways of dealing with > this, but ordinary app developers do not." > > For Android 5.0 there is a solution documented here: > > https://metactrl.com/docs/sdcard-on-lollipop/ > > We need to implement this if we want to support SD card support. > > This also does need careful design as we want to avoid: > > * Other apps reading our files (which you don't get in 'internal > storage') > * Storing unencrypted copies of encrypted content > * The app crashing without explanation if an SD card with all the > settings and stuff on being removed > > I also think that asking users to provide the path for 'external > storage' is bad UX anyway. This whole setting needs ripping out and > improving in a backward compatible manner. > > It's a major enhancement to do all this unfortunately and there's always > lots of those :) > > I will write up an enhancement issue for all of this though. > > - Philip > > > On 2016-04-06 06:55, Paul Norman wrote: > > Thanks Phillip, > > > > As Android / Settings (bogusly) says K9 is using External Storage, I > > did the following... > > > > I copied > > /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files/ > > > > To:- > > /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files/ > > > > Then renamed > > /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files_hold/ > > > > Started K9, as I feared it would, it just recreated default settings > > under > > > > /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files/ > > > > ... And ignored what was now on the actual External SD card. > > > > I deleted the new files folder and renamed files_hold back to files, > > restarted K9 and all was working, but I'm still stuck with 1Gb on my > > internal storage card :-( > > > > Can we please have a setting (Global) which lets us explicitly choose > > the K9 bulk storage location - and K9 automatically moves the stuff > > there when the setting is changed? > > > > It would be a great help please? > > > > :-) > > > > TIA > > > > Paul > > > > -- > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
