Re: Why is Android creating (garbage?) external sdcard directories?

Andrews,

Yes. They're there also. Same garbage that I have never needed to use.

:-) Long ago people trashed their computers by deleting "garbage" files they
didn't recognise .  Only to find out that that "garbage" was actualy used by
the OS.

Well, some of it is the installed apps but the point is I make a single
top-level directory on the internal memory just as I do on the external
sd.

The problem is that you think the SD card is yours to manage, while Android
thinks its his.  And I'm afraid that Android can out-stubborn you. :-( :-)

IOW, don't try to fight it, its not something you can win.

What you /could/ do is to, on the 'puter, write a bit of code/script that
will remove all empty (root) folders from the SD card.  A clean-up so to
speak.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser