Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors

On 2025-02-02 06:11, Marion wrote:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 21:42:57 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote :
 

And what are the privacy implications of your editor using someone else's
computer to store the files that rightly belong on your personal device?

>
I never need to do that.

 Hi Carlos,
 This is a good offshoot, which, let's be clear, we've dropped the Windows &
Editor folks from, so everything I say below is related mainly to Android.
 It's fine that you don't need to edit your files, but I was merely
addressing Andy's cloud-storage concerns, where Andy said that he could use
either USB storage or cloud storage instead of sdcards.
 They're not the same thing.
In fact, they're *completely* different things.
 Worse, he can only do one of those two very different things.
With sdcards, I can do both.
 

If I had to, I would use a google editor on the cloud (which you hate), or a new account at my host computer.

 I don't "hate" the cloud, as, let's be frank, all of us store our email on
the cloud, don't we? (Even with POP it's still "on the cloud" for a while).

I referred to me using the google editor with google cloud, which is gratis unless you exceed the quota of 15 gigs. I did this once, to use the feature of two people simultaneously editing the same file, across the pond.

 I just hate spending two thousand dollars to do what ten dollars will do.
And I don't like not being able to do whatever it is that I want to do.
 What I was explaining to Andy is that cloud storage is completely
*different* in fundamental ways such that it's NOT interchangeable with
sdcards.
 In fact, I've had "that" discussion many times with the people on the Apple
newsgroup who have no idea how *different* cloud storage is from sd
storage.
 They're completely different. They're not interchangeable.
 

And that would be very strange, as I travel with my laptop.

 Hmm... almost everyone travels, nowadays, with both a phone & a laptop.
Some people travel with more electronics than that (e.g., watches too).
 I presume you mean you edit files using your laptop rather than using your
phone - which is completely understandable. In fact, my Android is *always*
mirrored on my PC screen, so, in effect, even when I'm seemingly editing
files on my phone, I'm using the PC mouse, keyboard, speakers & clipboard
to "edit" files on Android. <https://i.postimg.cc/N0G1TXcZ/scrcpy01.jpg>
 But those Android files that I'm editing from the PC are *stored* on the
portable storage card - which is what I double/quadruple from now & then.
 Andy and you can double or quadruple your cloud storage also, but at the
cost of thousands of dollars compared to my cost of around ten US bucks.

I intentionally never edit a file stored in a flash card or usb dongle. I edit the file on the computer, and when finished, copy it over, if there is a need.

 And with a risk of losing your privacy (but the advantage is you aren't
likely to lose your data unless you stop paying the subscription fees).
 

But not everyone is that wealthy...

>
My phone is already 2 years old, I expect to use it for two years more, and I don't pay cloud storage.

 Good. Not everyone is wealthy enough to waste the earth's resources, and
I'm certainly not one to claim that I am wealthy enough to replace my phone
every couple of years (which Apple people always seem to claim they do).
 My phone, as everyone well knows, came to me in a handful, for free, by
T-Mobile, way back in early 2021, and all three are still going strong.
<https://i.postimg.cc/Xq5SpS4D/tmopromo02.jpg>
Let's be clear that one of the reasons they're all still going strong is
that I've been able to double & quadruple the external storage over time.
<https://i.postimg.cc/j2VCtRPX/sdcard02.jpg>
 This trick I'm trying to help others appreciate, is what allows me to
*seamlessly* double or triple that external portable storage over time.

Ok, but many people do not need to do that :-)
Nor would I intentionally label several cards with the same name. I want them different.

The word "seamless" is the important point.
It's accomplished by modifying the Volume Name (aka Volume Label).
 As Android editors apparently use the Volume Name to find their files.
 

I have never needed or felt the inclination to edit things in my phone. At least not heavy memory things, just notes. Editing is done in my computer.

 Hmm. How do you save a track & then edit that track when you are in the
backcountry hiking & therefore you can't hope to have Internet access?

I don't do that. Never felt that need.

 How do you add a new entry (or change an old entry) in your kdbx files?
Where do you store the (rather huge) databases that map editors save?

I've never done that. Ok, you are editing maps. Finally, we know what you are doing and things start to click in place :-)
I'd probably use a tablet in that case, perhaps with a flash card, which in my tablet is easily accessible. Big display.
--
Cheers, Carlos.