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It is disappointing when knowing that Android is Linux and knowing what features Linux filesystems support (links, UTF8 filenames, ... ) and then Android tells that it supports just FAT for the memory cards.
Fortunately it can be checked what is really supported by installing a Terminal Emulator app and type cat /proc/filesystems. Its quite obvious that the internal stuff does not run on FAT and therefore also the memory card inserted can have a Linux friendly filesystem as ext4.
Unfortunately this does not mean that the system mounts automatically filesystems other than FAT. The next hurdle is that mount can needs root permission.
As used in Linux files as .<filename> that start with a "." character are hidden files and will not be shown. Android makes use of that so consider to check the settings in data manager app to show also hidden files.
Data manager Apps might support the feature clean up duplicate in the local data.
Data manager Apps might have a place where last deleted files are stored for the next 30 days
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Chapter 9. Encrypted files |
