i think that is where my problem is. i have no option to select sdcard. when i click on the drive it just gives me regular folders like ringtones, media, twrp and things like that. also i have put the rom on the interenal storage and when i selected wipe data in twrp it completly wiped everything on my phone and the files were gone. what i did do is wiped dalvik, dalvik cache, then wiped data. rebooted phone and put the files back on the phone and rebooted into recovery and installed the rom, gapps and everything seems to be working fine.
here is a pic of the options i have when i open the drive for the phone on my pc. realize the files are there because of what i did before. if i run twrp and wipe data they are gone.
I'm not quite sure I follow everything you're saying but here's some more info that might help clear some things up:
The folders you see in the screen shot above are located on the sdcard on your phone. If you were to look for that folder on using a file explorer on your phone, the location of the Alarms folder would be
/sdcard/Alarms
As far the wipe data issue goes, if you are using TWRP, the process when clean wiping and flashing is this:
from the main menu of TWRP, click "wipe"
in the wipe menu select cache, dalvik cache, factory reset, and system.
go back to the main menu, then click "install"
in the install menu, browse for the ROM file, select it and install
go back to the main menu, then click "install"
in the install menu, browse for the gapps file, select it and install
reboot system
You can also add zips to the queue and flash multiple files in the same go.
None of the wipes above clear data from you sdcard (internal storage). The factory reset erases all of the user data associated with the ROM.
