Creating these directories on a removable drive is not useful because
mediascanner scans the whole drive, discovers and indexes the media
wherever they are on the removable drive.
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Just curious, how are you handling localization here? Obviously you
can't automatically create a "Music" directory when you insert a card
into a Chinese phone, it has to be "音乐". But then if I take that card
and insert it into a friend's German phone, is it going to understand
that music goes in
For many people USB memory only is used in few occasions in the phone.
This memory after that is used in the pc and It will be strange to see
new empty folders created. In any case it is not very important.
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Can you expand on how this improves usability? It's not like content on
the drive automatically gets sorted into the correct directories or
anything, so you end up with a "Music" directory which is not where the
music kept, etc. "Where is my music?" "Ah! It must be in the 'Music'
folder!" "Oh,
This is the intended functionality to improve usability when viewing the
drive. We can revisit if it can be attained another way.
** Summary changed:
- Do not create directories when formatting a USB drive
+ Do not create directories on removable drives
** Also affects: ubuntu-ux
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