Saving filled forms to an sd card

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Hi all,
How do i make sure that once i complete a form in ODk collect it is saved
directly to the sd card in the phone? I do not want to send it to
aggregate. Thank you for your help and time!
Cheers,
Sarah

2

As far as i can tell the form instances are saved directly to the phone, is
there a way to change this path and save them to the sd card?

··· On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:48:45 UTC-7, Sarah Pfeil wrote: > > Hi all, > How do i make sure that once i complete a form in ODk collect it is saved > directly to the sd card in the phone? I do not want to send it to > aggregate. Thank you for your help and time! > Cheers, > Sarah >
3

Sarah,

This depends on the device you're using. If an external memory is
supported, ODK stores the data in the "sdcard", otherwise it stays in the
internal memory.

I don't recall any option for setting Collect's data folder.

Nik

··· On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

As far as i can tell the form instances are saved directly to the phone,
is there a way to change this path and save them to the sd card?

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:48:45 UTC-7, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

Hi all,
How do i make sure that once i complete a form in ODk collect it is saved
directly to the sd card in the phone? I do not want to send it to
aggregate. Thank you for your help and time!
Cheers,
Sarah

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my device, the samsung galaxy pocket, is storing the collected data on the
phone's internal memory. I bought an SD card so that I could have much
larger storage. Will ODK collect and the phone start using the SD card if
the phone's internal storage fills up? I can manually move data stored
internally to the sd card, but that kind of defeats the purpose, and i
would like to minimize the technical steps for data retrieval in the field.
Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated, I am a bit of a newbie! :slight_smile:
Cheers,
Sarah

··· On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:26 PM, ゴー・ニコライ wrote:

Sarah,

This depends on the device you're using. If an external memory is
supported, ODK stores the data in the "sdcard", otherwise it stays in the
internal memory.

I don't recall any option for setting Collect's data folder.

Nik

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

As far as i can tell the form instances are saved directly to the phone,
is there a way to change this path and save them to the sd card?

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:48:45 UTC-7, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

Hi all,
How do i make sure that once i complete a form in ODk collect it is
saved directly to the sd card in the phone? I do not want to send it to
aggregate. Thank you for your help and time!
Cheers,
Sarah

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ODK Collect uses the directory returned by the Android OS as the external
storage directory.

Is there a system setting somewhere on your phone for setting what the
external storage directory location is?
Perhaps there is a FAQ on the Samsung or telecom site for this phone?

··· On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

my device, the samsung galaxy pocket, is storing the collected data on the
phone's internal memory. I bought an SD card so that I could have much
larger storage. Will ODK collect and the phone start using the SD card if
the phone's internal storage fills up? I can manually move data stored
internally to the sd card, but that kind of defeats the purpose, and i
would like to minimize the technical steps for data retrieval in the field.
Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated, I am a bit of a newbie! :slight_smile:
Cheers,
Sarah

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:26 PM, ゴー・ニコライ nikolai.go@gmail.com wrote:

Sarah,

This depends on the device you're using. If an external memory is
supported, ODK stores the data in the "sdcard", otherwise it stays in the
internal memory.

I don't recall any option for setting Collect's data folder.

Nik

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

As far as i can tell the form instances are saved directly to the
phone, is there a way to change this path and save them to the sd card?

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:48:45 UTC-7, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

Hi all,
How do i make sure that once i complete a form in ODk collect it is
saved directly to the sd card in the phone? I do not want to send it to
aggregate. Thank you for your help and time!
Cheers,
Sarah

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Don't think there is any setting for this.

When ODK Collect calls Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() to
create the /odk folder, it's up to the manufacturer of that device to
tell us where external storage is.

Most manufacturers tell us external storage is at /sdcard, and that's
generally correct. Some (maybe most?) Samsung devices put external
storage /sdcard/external_sd, but they never tell ODK that is the
storage location, they instead say it's at /sdcard which on Samsung
devices is on internal storage.

This has been a long standing issue with some Samsung devices and
there is no elegant workaround. We could maintain a list of all
affected devices and manually save to /sdcard/externa_sd, but that's
pretty hacky...

Yaw

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Mitch Sundt mitchellsundt@gmail.com wrote:

ODK Collect uses the directory returned by the Android OS as the external
storage directory.

Is there a system setting somewhere on your phone for setting what the
external storage directory location is?
Perhaps there is a FAQ on the Samsung or telecom site for this phone?

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Sarah Pfeil skpfeil@gmail.com wrote:

my device, the samsung galaxy pocket, is storing the collected data on the
phone's internal memory. I bought an SD card so that I could have much
larger storage. Will ODK collect and the phone start using the SD card if
the phone's internal storage fills up? I can manually move data stored
internally to the sd card, but that kind of defeats the purpose, and i would
like to minimize the technical steps for data retrieval in the field. Any
ideas and help would be greatly appreciated, I am a bit of a newbie! :slight_smile:
Cheers,
Sarah

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:26 PM, ゴー・ニコライ nikolai.go@gmail.com wrote:

Sarah,

This depends on the device you're using. If an external memory is
supported, ODK stores the data in the "sdcard", otherwise it stays in the
internal memory.

I don't recall any option for setting Collect's data folder.

Nik

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

As far as i can tell the form instances are saved directly to the phone,
is there a way to change this path and save them to the sd card?

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:48:45 UTC-7, Sarah Pfeil wrote:

Hi all,
How do i make sure that once i complete a form in ODk collect it is
saved directly to the sd card in the phone? I do not want to send it to
aggregate. Thank you for your help and time!
Cheers,
Sarah

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