Is there a way to copy the files exactly as is to a larger 256 flash drive so I can use that larger one as the main drive on the Nexus Player
UPDATE: I think Im going to go with a SeaGate Wireless TB Drive. There is an Android TV app called Seagate Media Receiver that allows you to access movies, photos and movies off of it. Has anyone used it?
Hi, the way you clone it is you restart your nexus then after it's booted, you plug in your target (new) usb drive, in storage/reset format it as internal. It will then display the option to migrate. select that and it will move the current contents of your existing usb drive to the new one. when that is complete you eject the source usb drive and restart your nexus. done.
Couldn't you just use a file explorer app?
Also, if it's filling up quickly, maybe go for more than just doubling to 256GB?
maybe buy a full hard drive? 1 tb externals aren't too much more than 256.
You could spend 120ish and get a 2 tb mycould. Works over wireless with the Nexus player. I have no issues with buffering or stuttering with 12gb files (I haven't tried larger, 12gb Lord or the Rings are the largest I have).
Does your computer have a sd card slot? You can just plug it in and transfer files over. If not, ES File explorer would do it.
On Linux or Mac you could use dd to create an image of the drive and write it to the larger one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)
I have been thinking about how I will move my stuff when the time comes to update to a larger drive. I guess the most logical (although very timely) process will be to move the apps back to internal (8 GB at a time) and then put in the new drive and move them there.
If you have linux, i would just rsync from one drive to the other. It will preserve all owners and permissions as well as the directory structure.
I'm not sure how file transfers work on the nexus player but I doubt using a usb hub to connect both drives will work as AFAIK android can only see the first one. The easiest way by far would be to use a computer, windows explorer should do fine in transferring the files. If you wanted a byte for byte copy something like Clonezilla might be more appropriate.
It might be worth it using a larger capacity drive whilst you're at it. something in the region of 1TB so you don't have to go through this process again, just make sure to format it to FAT32 before you start.