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Android keeps creating unwanted folders

Started Aug 21, 2016 | Discussions thread
RedFox88 Forum Pro • Posts: 30,738
Re: Android keeps creating unwanted folders

sacentre wrote:

I hope someone may be able to help me with this.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-N8020 running Android 4.1.2 with an external 64GB SD card. I store all my books on the ext SD card under a root folder called "Art and Literature" and access them with an app called Moon Reader Pro. Within the root folder, all the books are stored in subject folders and within those, folders with author names.

Every time I start Android and before running Moon Reader, I find that four duplicate but empty folders have been created at the root level. I keep deleting them but they always get re-created at boot up. The four folders are named for authors but are empty whereas the the four original folders (with the actual books in them, lower down the folder tree) are unaffected.

Why do you even care let alone look for empty folders?! They are empty! Apple has it right by not allowing users into programming folders

The app developer can think of no reason why this is happening as it occurs on boot when his app isn't even running so I'm looking elsewhere for the problem I thought it might have something to do with the many other book reader apps I installed to try out but subsequently deleted. I've made sure to erase any left over folders I can find that were created by these apps. One thing I thought of was trying to lock the SD card to see if this would provoke an error message of some sort but I don't know how to do that. Removing the card and re-inserting it after boot up sees the same four folders re-appear once it has been remounted by the filing system.

Sorry for a bit of a long winded story but I hope someone can help me track this down.

Trevor

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