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Have my Android, now confused how to sync external SD with phone storage

Started Nov 24, 2018 | Questions thread
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Sjak
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Have my Android, now confused how to sync external SD with phone storage

Hi all,

I've been googling the whole afternoon, but I could not find the answer to my issue.

Recently, I purchased an Android 7 device, in part to connect with a portable printer, in part to backup my camera's SD-card. I connect the SD-card via the USB-port of the Android.

However, when I copy all files from the SD-card again, this is the behaviour:

First, when the SD-card folder contains only e.g. file A, it will copy file A to destination file on the phone.

When later, after making more pics, I copy the folder again to destination folder, destination folder contains file A, A(0) and B. Is there a way to prevent it from creating duplicates? As this will be really frustrating eg. on vacations.

Probably it's some setting I missed, but with google I only found stuff that assumes I want to copy my android-data to a cloud or PC, not external SD to Android device.

Any input is highly appreciated!

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