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Push mp3 folders to phone...?

I have been messing around with ADB and pushing and I was wondering if there is a way to push an entire folder over to the phone. I think I could figure it out, but if someone knows how to do this that would be awesome, I searched but everything came up as ADB for noobs or ADB for dummies and just showed basic ADB commands... anyone know the command for pushing mp3 to sd card... also, i dont have a Music folder on my sd card anymore... if i push directly to SD without the directory, will it be created?
Thanks in advance guys

There might be another way but I just plug a USB cable into the phone, drag down the USB icon in the notification area, press the mount button and then make a new folder called Music and put my mp3's into it.
But like I said, there's a lot of ways to skin a cat and this is only one.
If your looking for some automated way, through a batch file or script, well... that'd be useful too.

i have done that too. but time and time again when i do this, especially after i rooted my phone, it says unable to read sd card and i have to either wipe or re-format my card. i was hoping that ADB would help this from happening...

The command to copy is cp -a so you would navigate to whatever location that folder is in and type
cp -a xxxxxx /sdcard/xxxxxx
That should do it

borodin1 said:
The command to copy is cp -a so you would navigate to whatever location that folder is in and type
cp -a xxxxxx /sdcard/xxxxxx
That should do it
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Nah, that command is for copying a folder from one location on the phone to another. With adb you need to place the folder of music (we'll call that folder Music in this demo) in the same folder as your adb.exe. Then press start and run cmd, then:
cd location of adb
adb push Music /sdcard/Music/
exit
That will push everything within your Music folder to another folder on the sdcard called Music. Then you can just listen to your music through the Music application. Good luck.

h.nocturna said:
Nah, that command is for copying a folder from one location on the phone to another. With adb you need to place the folder of music (we'll call that folder Music in this demo) in the same folder as your adb.exe. Then press start and run cmd, then:
cd location of adb
adb push Music /sdcard/Music/
exit
That will push everything within your Music folder to another folder on the sdcard called Music. Then you can just listen to your music through the Music application. Good luck.
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I'm ok with copying it. I am not sure if pushing something leaves a copy in original location, but then again, I just drag and drop files on my sdcard and if I need to do anything else with them I do it from shell.
Your way work though, may be even easier.

borodin1 said:
I'm ok with copying it. I am not sure if pushing something leaves a copy in original location, but then again, I just drag and drop files on my sdcard and if I need to do anything else with them I do it from shell.
Your way work though, may be even easier.
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I thought that he wanted to know how to transfer files from the computer to the sdcard without mounting since mounting corrupted his sdcard...

h.nocturna said:
I thought that he wanted to know how to transfer files from the computer to the sdcard without mounting since mounting corrupted his sdcard...
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You're correct.
adb push it is. Thank you for pointing this out.

Nothing in system/sd

I have OI file manager and I go into the system/sd folder and i dont see anything. But when i install a new app, i do notice that my ex3 partition available space changes. So it seems that the apps are installing on the ex3, but why dont i see anything in the system/sd folder?
Also, how can i copy files from my sd onto my system/sd folder? Do I have to adb it?
Thanks guys.
I know this is one of my first posts but I have been lurking these forums for a loooong time.

You will not see anything in system/sd unless you have root access. You can either use SU File Browser if you want a GUI for browsing, or just open the terminal and enter
$ su
# cd /system/sd
# ls
I try not to go into detail on anything that can be used for warez, so let me just state that you can either use SU File Browser, or the terminal (with root access) to copy to system/sd. Remember to mount /system as read-write.

snyper2k2 said:
I have OI file manager and I go into the system/sd folder and i dont see anything. But when i install a new app, i do notice that my ex3 partition available space changes. So it seems that the apps are installing on the ex3, but why dont i see anything in the system/sd folder?
Also, how can i copy files from my sd onto my system/sd folder? Do I have to adb it?
Thanks guys.
I know this is one of my first posts but I have been lurking these forums for a loooong time.
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Get a file manager with root access.
SU File Browser & Terminal
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4126161
I really like this one.

Will get that, thanks guys. Appreciate the help.

exploring apps2sd

is there a way to do it on the phone through a file explorer from the market? id like to copy the apk's to fat32 or pc and reinstall after I change ROMs (don't wanna loose my paid apps). I don't have any partition programs or internet right now and don't wanna deal with commands. ill find someway to format my ext2 if I can save to pc. maybe someone can suggest a simple light partition utility program I could download using tether on edge speed.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 1.4 + jf recovery if it helps.

phatmanxxl said:
is there a way to do it on the phone through a file explorer from the market? id like to copy the apk's to fat32 or pc and reinstall after I change ROMs (don't wanna loose my paid apps). I don't have any partition programs or internet right now and don't wanna deal with commands. ill find someway to format my ext2 if I can save to pc. maybe someone can suggest a simple light partition utility program I could download using tether on edge speed.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 1.4 + jf recovery if it helps.
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try astro (free) you should be able to see it
Root Explorer is the better option but its paid.
paragon has a free ext viewer (im not sure if thats what your looking for)
but you can easily back them up to your pc
Copy the following into notepad, save it and put it in the folder where you would like to back up your files. rename it from name.txt to name.bat
hook up your phone to your pc, and double click the .bat file
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adb pull /system/sd/app app
adb pull /system/sd/app-private app-private
all you have to do is set up adb
its much easier than copying them over one by one
note the above is for apps2sd set up already

[WEBTOP][Bell][Mod] SimpleTop 07/05/2012

Here is what I have done for my personal webtop so far.
Download
To install:
Make a partition on a SDCard, formatted ext3, so that the first partition is FAT, second partition is EXT3.(2GB should be fine, YEMV)
Extract contents of osh2.tar.bz2 to this ext3 partition.
Make a backup of /osh/ubuntu.sh
Overwrite /osh/ubuntu.sh with the one on the root of the SDCard's EXT3 partition.
Backup your /data/home/adas folder.
Remove /data/home/adas, leaving just /data/home.
Reboot the phone.
You will need Linux to extract the tar properly and create the SDCard partitions.
You do not need to be unlocked or have a different kernel, you just need to replace ubuntu.sh, so rooted, temp root, whatever. I created everything from a stock Bell phone. Android 2.3.6. If anything doesn't work, just replace ubuntu.sh with the original file or just remove your sdcard.
Cheers!
edit: changed link
what has been modified:
fuse based smbnetfs installed, stock kernel can access windows shares and play video using motorola hd media center.
open office installed, gimp, some games
lxde set up, theme preconfigured.
No need for dependencies to be fixed or webtop to sd apps run, has zero errors and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade has completed without errors several times so adding extra sources and doing dist-upgrade won't cause errors.
Replaced firefox 7 with 8, rest is Bell webtop.
Been installing and playing with it for a while now, can't recall all the mods.
Yes, you can put the tarball on the phone and extract it to the sdcard that way, you just need to mount the partition. I keep a copy in internal memory to be able to restore when I install/uninstall something I shouldn't.
EDIT:
If you use xarchiver from another webtop to untar the archive, you may need more than 2GB.

Can you put the .tar file on the phone and extract there? I ask because I only have access to Windows machines. Creating the partitions on the sdcard is easy with MiniTool Partition on Windows.

I am can't downloading this file, webserver says: "This file is no longer available."

How has this webtop been modified?

Ramble via webtop:
My approach is to avoid established scripts for fixing dependencies and apps for moving webtop to sd card. Not that I have anything against those, but they were developed using ATT phones and might miss some compatibility with Bell.
One key difference for getting going from scratch is that I installed a standard armel busybox from the busybox site, that avoided a lot of errors when installing debs. Not sure where the busybox comes from in apps2sd but it is not as up to date and results in more errors with missing command line options.
I also didn't want to change/replace the contents of the phone too much so I could easily revert to stock, there is this ICS rumour..
This is what I did:
Starting off I updated the sources.list to be jaunty and just worked through the errors by installing debs manually. lxterminal was installed via deb and tomoyo was disabled by renaming the init and start files. Basically, I did a force install via deb file of some rootfs package contents, coreutils, cpio, dbus, dhcp, gpgv, grep, udev. All references to -mot versions were stripped of the -mot suffix so they could be more easily upgraded. I left the references to ~mot and -motorola in the versions of packages, not sure why, just did. Eventually I got to a place where synaptic was installed and I had no errors. Saved the state in a tarball and kept experimenting with installing things.
I really wanted a home folder elsewhere than /data/home but there are too many hard references to it in webtop for stability, I found a lot in scripts but I suspect they are in binaries as well. You can rbind once in webtop but you need it to have stuff in there during boot, not mix and match configs.
I tried an external hard drive, but there is a fundamental flaw in that logic, they only turn on once you open the lid of the lapdock, so you can't have boot files on it.
I copied the firefox-8.0 from ATT, deleted firefox-7, updated the soft links to point to the 8 version, redid profile.zip to have xda be the home page and adblock installed already, tossed in .xdg-bookmarks to add Network to pcmanfm. I originally had all the home folder stuff in profile.zip but some part of the scripts mess with settings and not everything was carrying over.
So, I did a tarball of my home dir's dot files and put it in /osh2/home/adas so when I do a factory reset and adas is wiped it restores my config. Tip: removing the entire adas folder gives you the same effect for webtop as a factory reset. Reboot and you are back to where you were.
I tried all the window managers, avant/awn anything is annoying when it shifts items left and right when an app opened or closed. I was able to have the stock awn working with a cairo menu, but it still shifted things left and right and was slow. I tried recompiling awn on the phone to get the option to just have launchers but there is this tendency for anything new you compile to require a new libc6. Xfce is cool, menu looked odd though, went with lxde, easy enough to switch if you want. Note: Compiz anything is a waste of time.
I have removed the stock webtop theme and replaced it with clearlooks and murrine window decoration. lxpanel is transparent via manual hack of the config file, the gui for changing things always sets alpha to 0, bug into the prefs app.
I could go on and on, but I like what I have done so far, thought I would pass it along. The main bit for me is not having to install a new kernel or wipe existing partitions, make a lot of phone mods, a pure stock phone can have a custom webtop, just needs to be rooted to copy one file over. Also, I like being able to watch tv shows on my lapdock, worth the price of admission right there for me.
Oh, size is around 1.4GB untarred, so it's a least a 2GB ext3 partition. I have an option in there for using mmcblk1p3 for var if you want to copy var over there formatted with smaller clusters. There are a few flags to control things, if you didn't want to remove your sdcard, touch /osh/no_osh2 and reboot the phone to disable. /osh/var_ownp enables the mounting and use of a third partition on the sdcard dedicated to /var. Use that one carefully, commit to it before installing a lot of things, having a mix and match could break the custom webtop.
Cheers!

Thanks for putting this up, I'd like to give it a try but am having difficulties, possibly cause i'm running Nochatrix (ATT 2.3.6).
When you say 'extract properly' to the EXT3 partition, what command would you use? Should extracting first then copying over work? Because I tried that, and it didn't!
Cheers

It has to be linux, either on the phone or on a pc so that tar -xvf will keep the ownership and file permissions.

VMware Player
CaelanT said:
Can you put the .tar file on the phone and extract there? I ask because I only have access to Windows machines. Creating the partitions on the sdcard is easy with MiniTool Partition on Windows.
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Download VMware Player and the free copy of linux.. now you can run Linux.. :highfive:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=player

NFHimself said:
... so that tar -xvf will keep the ownership and file permissions.
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That's it, thanks. I was over-complicating things, putting in unnecessary arguments and trying to copy it over using -C. In the end I just copied the tar to the EXT3 and just unpacked it there.
Anyways, it works great! Everything ive quickly tried works nicely, openoffice, synaptic, Gnometris , etc, it's clean and quick, just what I was after.

can make a .zip CWM flashable file???
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jpinoy said:
Download VMware Player and the free copy of linux.. now you can run Linux.. :highfive:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=player
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where can i find Linux OS??

It work on stock 2.3.4?

It work on stock 2.3.4?
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I haven't tested it, the webtop is from Bell's 2.3.6, probably not a large difference, but can't say for sure.
Can you make a CWM zip?
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Yes, I can.
Cheers!

Chimpdaddy;[URL="tel:28700385" said:
28700385[/URL]]That's it, thanks. I was over-complicating things, putting in unnecessary arguments and trying to copy it over using -C. In the end I just copied the tar to the EXT3 and just unpacked it there.
Anyways, it works great! Everything ive quickly tried works nicely, openoffice, synaptic, Gnometris , etc, it's clean and quick, just what I was after.
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Glad you like it!
Cheers!

I'd love to give this one a try. I'm using Webtop2SD right now. Can someone give a more detailed step-by-step instruction please?

Chimpdaddy;[URL="tel:28700385" said:
28700385[/URL]]That's it, thanks. I was over-complicating things, putting in unnecessary arguments and trying to copy it over using -C. In the end I just copied the tar to the EXT3 and just unpacked it there.
Anyways, it works great! Everything ive quickly tried works nicely, openoffice, synaptic, Gnometris , etc, it's clean and quick, just what I was after.
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qaplus;[URL="tel:28824484" said:
28824484[/URL]]I'd love to give this one a try. I'm using Webtop2SD right now. Can someone give a more detailed step-by-step instruction please?
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This does not use webtop2sd, so you would need to uninstall that first as it would likely cause problems.
Not sure how detailed you need instructions.
Cheers!

NFHimself said:
I haven't tested it, the webtop is from Bell's 2.3.6, probably not a large difference, but can't say for sure.
Yes, I can.
Cheers!
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Thanks, but not seeing any zip on OP .....

I have limited experience with linux. What I got:
1. AT&T Atrix on 2.4.6.
2. Webtop2SD created ext3 partition on SD card.
What I plan to do:
1. Wipe ext3 partiion and copy the SimpleTop tar file to it
2. Log into Webtop ( boot from the Webtop partition from the internal sd card)
3. backup .sh and adas folder
4. untar simpletop in the ext3 partition
5. copy the new .sh file.
Will these steps work? I feel it's bit dangerous to do this on the phone. But how can I do this on a windows computer?
Thanks for any suggestions.

qaplus said:
I have limited experience with linux. What I got:
1. AT&T Atrix on 2.4.6.
2. Webtop2SD created ext3 partition on SD card.
What I plan to do:
1. Wipe ext3 partiion and copy the SimpleTop tar file to it
2. Log into Webtop ( boot from the Webtop partition from the internal sd card)
3. backup .sh and adas folder
4. untar simpletop in the ext3 partition
5. copy the new .sh file.
Will these steps work? I feel it's bit dangerous to do this on the phone. But how can I do this on a windows computer?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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That is pretty much it. Just remember to be super user and include -p if using tar for backup. Tar -cvpjf /sdcard/ADAS.tar.bz2 . for example. Also, you don't want to be in webtop2sd mode if you are doing this but from a rooted webtop on the the phone itself. Or you could do it all from an adb shell.
Cheers!
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium

NFHimself said:
That is pretty much it. Just remember to be super user and include -p if using tar for backup. Tar -cvpjf /sdcard/ADAS.tar.bz2 . for example. Also, you don't want to be in webtop2sd mode if you are doing this but from a rooted webtop on the the phone itself. Or you could do it all from an adb shell.
Cheers!
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
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I haven't used adb before. Can you list the commands in adb to install this? Thanks.

qaplus said:
I haven't used adb before. Can you list the commands in adb to install this? Thanks.
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ADB is just a way to get a remote shell going over usb, so the commands are linux shell commands.
I would do something like this:
(Blank ext3 partition on sdcard, second partition)
adb shell
$ shsu
# mkdir /mnt/asec/osh2
# mount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /mnt/asec/osh2
# cd /mnt/asec/osh2
# tar -xvf /sdcard/osh2.tar.bz2
# cp /osh/ubuntu.sh /sdcard/
# cp ubuntu.sh /osh/
# cd /data/home
# tar -cvpjf /sdcard/adas.tar.bz2 .
# rm -r /adas
# sync
# umount /mnt/asec/osh2
# reboot
Cheers!

[GUIDE][Windows] Making backups with adb

NOTE: The Nexus 4 does not have a physical sd card. However, the user directory on the phone is located at /storage/sdcard0/ and will, for the purposes of this guide, be referred to as the sdcard.
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Making sdcard backups with MTP is often unreliable. First of all, files are not always immediately updated with the ones on your phone. As a result, there may be folders missing, files that you deleted on your phone still showing up, etc. Also, the Date modified values of files are changed to the time that the files were moved onto your computer, which can cause errors when restoring them to your phone; i.e. photos in gallery not appearing in order. Other times, MTP is simply not available (if you have an older computer or an unsupported OS, for example). The best way to go about a backup is by using adb (Android Debug Bridge).
So, let's get started.
1. First, you're going to need some variant of the Android SDK/Software Development Kit as well as the Nexus 4 drivers installed. I won't show you how to do this, as there are already many guides and tutorials available.
Here's the link to the official Google ADT/Android Developer Tools.
2. Once you've got everything on your computer set up, open up the Settings app and go to About phone. Scroll down and quickly tap the Build number tile seven times. You have now enabled Developer options.
Go back, enter Developer options and enable USB debugging. An authorization pop-up will appear; allow it.
3. Now, open up a command prompt window and change directory to the location of adb on your computer. If you installed the official SDK, this will be under
Code:
folderyouextractedto\sdk\platform-tools
Connect your phone via USB and type
Code:
adb devices
You should see something like this:
Code:
List of devices attached
random numbers and letters device
If you don't, you probably don't have the drivers installed properly OR you failed to authorize your computer for USB debugging.
4. Make a folder on C:\ (or whatever your OS drive is) with NO SPACES in the file name. You can now make the backup.
Type
Code:
adb pull /storage/sdcard0/ C:\folderyoumade
You are now backing up your entire sdcard. This can take a while, depending on how many files you have on your phone.
When the copy is complete, you should see something like
Code:
x files pulled. 0 files skipped.
0 files skipped is very important, as it confirms that all of the files were copied over correctly.
To backup specific folders on it, simply change the command to that directory on your phone.
i.e.
Code:
adb pull /storage/sdcard0/folderyouwant/ C:\folderyoumade
5. To restore a backup, simply type
Code:
adb push C:\folderyoumade /storage/sdcard0/
NOTE: Restored folders DO NOT replace existing folders on your sdcard. They are merged (so pre-existing files in a folder remain, while any new files are copied in).
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NOTE: I recommend that you do not use your phone during a backup or restore so as to make sure all files are properly copied.
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Remember, this is only an sdcard backup. App and system data are NOT copied over. If you want to make a backup of your app data, the easiest way to do this is with Titanium Backup, Helium, or a similar app and then backup those files using adb pull. If you wish to make a complete backup of your file system (not including sdcard though), make a nandroid from recovery.

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klvnhng said:
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Good method if MTP failes or crashes! Thanks!

Thanks!

I get remote object '/storage/sdcard0' not a file or directory when I try pull. Help?:crying:

nphone said:
I get remote object '/storage/sdcard0' not a file or directory when I try pull. Help?:crying:
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You forgot the frontslash at the end of 0. Try that

On some devices you can't specify destiny forlder in order to use adb push or pull, you have to use current folder:
Code:
cd C:\folderyoumade
adb pull /storage/sdcard0/folderyouwant/
It's better to backup the sdcard this way than using adb backup because it also backups the Android folder inside the sdcard.

Or much shorter;
adb pull /sdcard C:\SDCARDBackUp
__________________________________________________
Device: Google Nexus 4 (LG-E960) 16GB (MAKO)
ROM: SimpleAOSP-L-ROM (Stable Build 7)
Kernel: Stuxnet v4.5 (3.4.105)
Gapps: PA-Gapps-5.0.1-BETA4 (MINI)
_________________________________________________

Is there a way for pull to skip files which already exist in your specified destination? Sometimes it errors in the middle of a long transfer because it doesn't like a file name or something.

I was looking for a better way to push my virtual sd card backup, as using the copy and paste method in windows doesn't copy all of the files for some reason. It will copy all the files from the sd card to the PC, but not back again. I was having to search through every folder and copy and paste to get everything copied back. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I knew about adb push command, but I never tried it, because I always thought the copy and paste method would be easier. Boy was I wrong. This way pushes all the files in one try. Soooo much easier.

I have a question, can I also backup this file directory: /storage/emulated/0? Or is this something else, I checked both folder and they seem to be the same.

Hi,
I've done a full backup using adb backup, including the whole content of my sd card (using the -shared option).
However, when restoring my device using adb restore, nothing is restored on my sd card (not the apps and not the files).
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there any special option to use for the restore?
Is there any other way to restore my apps&data from my backup file (.ab) using other commands ?
The content of my backup file seems correct though.
Thanks!

NikoBe00 said:
Hi,
I've done a full backup using adb backup, including the whole content of my sd card (using the -shared option).
However, when restoring my device using adb restore, nothing is restored on my sd card (not the apps and not the files).
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there any special option to use for the restore?
Is there any other way to restore my apps&data from my backup file (.ab) using other commands ?
The content of my backup file seems correct though.
Thanks!
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Sounds like the adb backup didnt copy the /storage/sdcard0/android/ folder on the sdcard perhaps? Maybe try using adb pull to copy the scdard seperately in addition to doing the adb backup to be safe. You could push the sdcard data back manually if the restore doesnt. See below:
scandiun said:
On some devices you can't specify destiny forlder in order to use adb push or pull, you have to use current folder:
Code:
cd C:\folderyoumade
adb pull /storage/sdcard0/folderyouwant/
It's better to backup the sdcard this way than using adb backup because it also backups the Android folder inside the sdcard.
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it doesnt work

Why?
klvnhng said:
You forgot the frontslash at the end of 0. Try that
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I font understand why is the front slash required?
I also forgot the front slash and was facing the same problem. Now its working after adding the front slash.
So, why is the front slash required and what does it mean ?

can I backup the sd card even if it is external using this method (apps are moved there too)?
edit: ok, I got the android folder from sd card, the message was:
/storage/sdcard1/Android/: 147 files pulled. 0 files skipped.,
but how am I supposed to see them?
I contacted AppMgr III, maybe they can tell me