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So if we used a symbolic link to store data/app and data/data on the sdcard instead of our phones, what would be the potential risk if we removed the sdcard after having done this? Would our phone go crazy and blow up or what? Would this not solve the problems of apps being stored on the phone's internal memory?

theres a discussion going on here

Originally Posted by neerhaj

theres a discussion going on here

Thanks.

One of the users on that forum said that a symbolic link would simply duplicate the information...is that correct?

Originally Posted by Stericson

Thanks.

One of the users on that forum said that a symbolic link would simply duplicate the information...is that correct?

unless this phone changes the way a symbolic link works that user is incorrect... Think of it like shortcuts on your desktop... it doesn't create a new program to display the shortcut... it just is a small file that tells the computer to run the real program. You could do the same but there needs to be a lot more work than just that. Basically the app is stored in data/app and the data is stored in data/data but then there are other files the program may have installed elsewhere and links may need to be done to quite a few different folders. Basically it will be messy... someone needs to make an app that installs to the sdcard

Ok, I thought he was wrong but I was just making sure....Do you know where the android market is storing all of its cache because the app is growing on my phone and I want to

A) reduce it by clearing the data
or
B) use a symlink to stop it from taking up space on my phone.

if I am not mistaken cache is in data/cache... I know that the /cache directory is a symlink to somewhere else. Forgot where thou.