Maybe he did a "Move to SD card"?  


Why don't you at least change the dir from trc_prl to something else so you 
can tell if it's using your package name or a variant of your dir name?



On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:18:39 PM UTC-6, Rob H wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> My app stores files on external storage under a folder I create with the 
> following code:
>
> new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "/trc_prl/bundle");
>
> One of my testers has noticed that sometimes when he goes to clean up 
> external storage to begin testing from a clean device he will sometimes see 
> "duplicates" of the folders I create with periods instead of underscores, 
> for example "/mnt/sdcard/trc.prl/bundle".
>
> I've looked through my code and I see no possible means of an error in the 
> directory spelling, the only thing that looks like "trc.prl" is the package 
> name of the app itself.
>
> Has anyone seen this before that can tell me what's happening exactly?  Is 
> this Android's version of Microsoft's method of preventing duplicate file 
> names (e.g. FIle(1), File(2), etc...)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob
>
>
>

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