Help SD card showing as number

[athegn]

On both my Galaxy S5 phone and Galaxy Tab S, both with latest Marshmellow updates, my external SD cards show as numbers in "My Files" and "Solid Explorer" e.g

/storage/3335-3735/Music

/storage/5A1C-s544/PDF

My wife's Galaxy S2 OS 6.01 shows:-

/SD card/PDF (Note no "storage" and "SD card" instead of alpha/numeric code)

Why should this be?

 

[lvt]

It depends on the app you are using, I have two different files manager apps, one shows the sd card as External Storage while the other show it as a string of character and number just like yours.

 

[athegn]

"My files" app on tablet S and S2 shows it in different ways; so not app? Something to do with OS?

 

[Thom]

When the Droid Turbo 2 upgraded to 6.0.0 there were two changes introduced ...

(1) The name of the external SD card has been sdcard1 for years and years. It is now a unique number like 6337-3536. The apps that you had in the past (like file managers) that pointed to /sdcard1/something will now have to be revised. There no longer is an sdcard1.

(2) When connected by a USB cable to Windows 7 ... some of the files on the SD Ext card on the Turbo 2 will not be seen from the Windows 7 Computer display. I am still investigating this one. The files do seem to show up eventually.

I think the card name change was done for security concerns. Each card now has a serial number.

Some apps use the number and some have been updated to display a replacement string when they see the number.

... Thom

 

[IsaacGuti]

This also happened to me when I upgraded to marshmallow. I didn't mind it.