Exclusive Trick: Save Whatsapp media on your Memory Card & save Phone Memory [NO ROOT]

WhatsApp doesn't give a choice to save the photos, videos, audios, chat backup etc to the memory card. But now, with this trick you can have all your files on your memory card & save your already scarce phone memory!

Before we start, I highly recommend you to make a backup (copy) of your whatsapp folder on your computer, in case something goes wrong. Now, let's start.. 

You'll need the app: FolderSync Lite or FolderSync (Paid)

Step 1: Install the above said app.

Step 2: Use your file manager to create a folder in your memory card. Name it as "WhatsApp" (without the quotes).

Step 3: Open the app, go to Folderpairs, & click on the '+' sign at the lower right of your screen.

Step 3

Step 4: Fill the fields as follows:

Unique Name: WhatsApp

Account: SD CARD

Sync Type: To remote folder

Remote folder: browse & select the WhatsApp folder you created on your memory card.

Local folder: browse your phone memory & select the WhatsApp folder.

Step 4

Scheduling:

Check "Use scheduled sync"

Sync interval: Advanced

Sync days: Select all the days (Mon-Sun)

Sync times: 3:00 (you can choose any time but I prefer & recommend it at night)

Scheduling

Sync Options:

Only tick & activate the following,

• Instant Sync
• Sync subfolders
• Sync hidden files
• Delete source files after sync

Overwrite old files: Always

If conflicting modifications: Use local file

Sync Options

Connections: Leave everything as it is (Everything should show as disabled)

Notifications: Tick & activate 'show notification on sync error' (you can use other options as per your wish too)

Notifications

Advanced: Tick & activate, "Rescan media library" & "Use temp-file scheme".

Advanced

Step 5: Check all the settings properly & Click on save.

Step 6: Exit from the app & reopen it, From the Folderpairs window, click on 'SYNC'.

'Syncing' will be displayed & being the first time, you need to wait patiently, the time taken will depend upon the size of your Whatsapp contents & your phone's processing speeds.

And you're done! 

You can check, the whatsapp folder on your phone memory will be empty & all files/images/audio etc will be available in the Whatsapp folder on your memory card!

The only drawback* of using this trick is that after each night's sync, the media when opened through the WhatsApp app, will be unable to open the media and will show a dialogue saying "Sorry, this media file doesn't exist on your SD card".

Though all the media will be safe on your memory card & can be viewed from your phone's gallery.*\

*This happens as the files have been moved from the default location (phone memory)

IMPORTANT TIP: If you're not running acutely short of your phone storage, you can set the Sync Days under Scheduling option to Mon-Wed-Fri-Sun. By doing this,the frequency of the above said issue can be delayed by 2 days instead of daily.

Depending on your storage status, you can also set the sync to happen just once a week (select any one day) & the media will be available in WhatsApp app for one week before it gets transferred to the memory card.

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For those who want to know what's actually happening here, this app will move the contents of the 'whatsapp' folder from your phone memory to the 'Whatsapp' folder on the memory card on a scheduled basis (daily night at 3:00AM)

Disclaimer: This blog/owner of this blog disclaims all/any of the damage/loss caused to you/your device/data/etc due to use of the above stated method. You agree to perform the above at your own complete risk.

How to Extract Text from Images Online & PDF Files

Recently i had received a report from a company which had stats on the best laptops which was sent by a media company and while reading the report i thought to share a part of the stats with all my blog reader, but well it was not possible because it was a JPEG Image which the report was saved as and there was no option to copy any part of this. Now in order to extract all the text content from the Image i had to use a Online Tool called as Free OCR also means Optical Character Recognition which is a technology used to mechanically or electronically translate images into machine editable text which means into a kind of text which you can use it easily.

To make you understand this technology in easy format, lets take a example. Whenever you scan some important document, you will find that its available to you to be saved as a Image file and you cannot select any other format in this case, because the scanner would take a photographic screenshot of document and present it to you. Now the OCR Readers would perform the reverse job and offer you a text format of the Image files. In order to get this task done you need to visit the website and browse the Image file on your local computer and click on the send file button, which would upload the file to the free-ocr.com website server where its being converted and then the results are shown on the same window at the end.

There are many chances that the text format is lost, because in the Image you would find the information stored in perfect tables and good layouts, but at the end you can find garbled text, which you need to format manually and still this is a good service because atleast you don’t have to manually type down all the text content from the Image. You just have to take the pieces of text which was downloaded and format it correctly for your usage.