Things not to do!

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1.) DO NOT try and make a symlink for /data/app onto your sdcard.

Why?
1. Your phone will go crazy!
2. It just doesn't work, even if you do make the symlink. Phone won't boot up.
3. Even if you get your apps back on your phone, many of them are corrupted and you must re download them...
Reasons
1. must be a communication area somewhere...another folder would need to be symlinked....maybe the data folder....

I will probably keep updating this as I go on....

Could it be that the sdcard is mounted later in the boot process than when the command is called to access the apps/data? In other words your symlink is telling the OS to load data from a partition that isn't mounted at that point.

It is possible...don't know how to work it out....I did it again trying something else and it screwed up my phone to the point that I had to do a factory reset...home key wouldn't work, apps failed, background changed....lol bad scene...lol

Fun though....lol

uh

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Also you think that maybe some apps were open at the time you moved the directories ?

I thought of that but I also did it while the phone wasn't turned on.

something else you shouldn't do

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did this by accident

you should not clear settings under: manage apps>settings it clears call logs messes up your background and some other things