Messed up file system

Hi

Yes, its very different to windows - maybe have a look at this article:

http://www.all-things-android.com/content/understanding-android-file-hierarchy

Roger

 

These elements are not so different in most cases:

System apps live in the /system folder.
User installed apps live in /data/app
App data live in /data/data/%app%

However, that's all in the internal storage, and if you are not rooted you probably can't even see that. The point is that the root of the SD card (or the /sdcard partition, which is part of the internal storage and not actually an SD car) is not the root of the filesystem but the root of a general media storage area.

Where apps do store stuff in the sd card (either the real SD card or the "internal sd card") some apps let you select the location via the app's settings. If the app doesn't let you do that, if you move the data it may not know where to find them (though you can usually organise stuff like music or photos as you like as the apps that use them will search the whole card).

As an aside, I'm always annoyed by desktop OSes and apps which assume that I want to keep all my documents in an undifferentiated folder called "Documents" - I sort my files by their content, context or purpose as the most important classification, not which app produced them, so have to constantly overrule what to me is a stupid default behaviour