[Therion] BlueStacks 4 to run Android Cave Survey Apps

[Bruce Mutton]

>> But all the Media Manager presents me with is an option to Export to 

>> Windows (from whence they were just imported!), to delete them or 

>> select all.

>See what I attached. I also think that when I first tried it ,that save icon wasn't there. Then I tried importing an image file (.png) and clicked on it to view it. Then I noticed a save icon in the photo viewer. Then I went back to look at "imported" and it had a save icon, and I felt like maybe I had been blind the first time. But maybe it wasn't there the first time...  It's there permanently now, even after I deleted files from it.

 



 

OK, the save icon Is not really a save icon.  It is the Total Commander icon.

I installed Solid Explorer, and straight afterwards the Solid Explorer icon turns up!

Seems that a third party-file manager is required to create folders and move files around within the BlueStacks virtual Android device.

BlueStacks Media Manager only transfers files in or out, or deletes them.

 

So in the BlueStacks Media Manager snip above, the options from the left of the image above are:

- Export to any Windows folder using a simple dialog box [ie Transfer SexyTopo files to your Windows based project folder]

- Use Total Commander third-party file manager to save to a different Android folder [ie Move SexyTopo files from a shared folder to Documents/SexyTopo]

- Use Solid Explorer third-party file manager to save to a different Android folder [same as for Total Commander]

- Delete the files

 

So possible workflows are:

Files from Windows based project folders to BlueStacks virtual Android device SexyTopo folders

1.	EITHER Copy (Windows) folders/files from project folders to one of the shared BlueStacks folders (C:/Users/<User>/Documents, Documents or /ProgramData/BlueStacks/Engine/UserData/SharedFolder )
2.	OR Use BlueStacks Media Manager’s ‘Import from Windows’ to select files (but not folders) and import them into ‘Imported files’ (equivalent to sdcard/DCIM)
3.	THEN Use a third-party file manager to manually create a destination folder structure (if necessary) to match any folders you just copied (ie SexyTopo/Surveys/SurveyName) because BlueStacks Media Manager cannot copy or create folders
4.	In BlueStacks Media Manager select the files copied in step 1 or 2, then click your third-party file manager button, and …
5.	In your third-party file manager select the destination folder (ie SexyTopo/Surveys/SurveyName)

 

Open the surveys in SexyTopo, to interrogate them while drawing with Therion, or even edit them.

 

Files from BlueStacks virtual Android device SexyTopo folders to Windows based project folders

1.	In BlueStacks Media Manager select the files you want to return to your Windows project, and …
2.	With Windows Explorer manually create a destination folder structure (if necessary) to match any folders you just copied
3.	Use BlueStacks Media Manager’s ‘Export to windows’ to select any folder (ie your Windows based project folder) 

 

I found Solid Explorer much easier to understand and use than total Commander, by the way.

It is still not fool proof.  Files copied back to Windows can be visible with some applications (Explorer, text editors, parts of Bazaar) and not others (other parts of Bazaar).  I presume this is just some sort of delay that would eventually sort itself out.

 

If you still use PocketTopo, all you need to do is open the relevant file directly from the Windows based project folder.  Oh well, that’s progress.

 

Bruce

 

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