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Please help me with a long-term family tech support issue; Is there an easy way on Android to move WhatsApp media (if not the whole app) to the SD card rather than internal memory? Here are the constraints;
- older Samsung (S7 IIRC)
- current data/chats/etc must *not* be lost (includes departed friends and relatives)
- rooting is not an option
- Android forks are not feasible either
Bonus points if you've made this work yourself and can explain it! Thank you :)
#Android #WhatsApp #DataHoarding
@airadam can't you move your chats to some of your computer and use some of the software available over there? There are lots of software advertised for backing up the WhatsApp chats.
@iamwaseem this is the kind of thing that a lot of dodgy sites with downloadable software *claim* to be able to do, but I'm in a "failure is not an option" space. The media also needs to continue to be accessible via WhatsApp on the phone, anything involving having an extra app present to view any of it is a non-starter. This is for my mother, who isn't technically confident and needs it to "just work". The app should really support SD storage for data like, say, Spotify does!
@airadam And the phone is pretty old which can die at any moment causing the memories to be lost. Based on this, phone can be upgraded and chats will be moving with the device if you back it up on Google drive or manually copy files from old phone to the new phone.
@iamwaseem Backup is a good point - we do use the facility built into the app already to back chats up to her Google account. This phone is already an upgrade, but the killer is that new phones (from decent manufacturers) appear to remove the SD slot altogether, so if we decided to just update the whole handset, then we'd essentially be getting ready to run ourselves into *that* brick wall.
@airadam any new phones can have decent storage which I think can help with that. You won't have to upgrade again very soon.
This was just my opinion.