{"id":646,"date":"2017-11-24T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:11:58","slug":"how-to-move-whatsapp-data-to-sd-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/how-to-move-whatsapp-data-to-sd-card\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Move WhatsApp Data to SD Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the increase of Video and Photo sharing on WhatsApp there\u00a0has been\u00a0a sudden requirement for more data storage space in phones. Phones have limited internal storage which fills up pretty soon with the amount of data being shared on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp does not support storing data on SD card as specified on their FAQ<\/a>\u00a0page. This has more to do with technical limitations which leaves us only with the option to copy data from WhatsApp Media folders to SD card and then delete the data from the original location which in other words is\u00a0a simple data backup task. Also, remember once you move the data from WhatsApp Media folder to SD card, the working link\u00a0to those files in WhatsApp message history is\u00a0not going to work anymore. You will need to access those files from other Video and Photo Viewer apps.<\/p>\n

In order to move data from WhatsApp\u00a0we will need\u00a0a File Explorer app. If you phone does not have a File Explorer app, then install\u00a0one from the app store and then follow the steps as following<\/p>\n

Open File Explorer app and click on WhatsApp folder<\/p>\n

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In WhatsApp folder go to Media folder<\/p>\n

\"WhatsApp<\/p>\n

Inside Media folder you will see folders for various media types<\/p>\n

\"WhatsApp<\/p>\n

Select the folder you want to move for example WhatsApp Video<\/p>\n

\"Select<\/p>\n

Once you select\u00a0a folder, you will see options such as cut, delete etc. Simply cut the entire folder\u00a0which shall ask for a destination location which would be SD card as shown below<\/p>\n

\"Select<\/p>\n

Click SD card and then create a folder named WhatsApp and then another folder Media inside WhatsApp<\/p>\n

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Go inside Media folder and then paste the folder<\/p>\n

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You can create any folder structure on your SD card. I simply prefer to create the same folder structure as the source.<\/p>\n

Since you had cut the original WhatsApp folder, it does not exist in source location. WhatsApp is going to create the folder again when you receive\u00a0the related media files\u00a0again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the increase of Video and Photo sharing on WhatsApp there\u00a0has been\u00a0a sudden requirement for more data storage space in phones. Phones have limited internal storage which fills up pretty soon with the amount of data being shared on WhatsApp. WhatsApp does not support storing data on SD card as specified on their FAQ\u00a0page. This has more to do with technical limitations which leaves us only with the option to copy data from WhatsApp Media folders to SD card and then delete the data from the original location which in other words is\u00a0a simple data backup task. Also, remember once you move the data from WhatsApp Media folder to SD card, the working link\u00a0to those files in WhatsApp message history is\u00a0not going to work anymore. You will need to access those files from other Video and Photo Viewer apps. In order to move data from WhatsApp\u00a0we will need\u00a0a File Explorer[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}