Kindle Fire Storage Card

[Tarser]

I am bewildered! My storage was running low on my Kindle fire, so I bought a storage card and enabled it to take on books, audio books, films etc...My internal storage is now down to zero and there I was, assuming that from now on, books, audio, music etc. Would now go on to the card. But NO!!! If I try to download anything now, no internal storage, I get a warning that I can't do it as I have no storage left!

To me, it's like my house is totally full of stuff, so I build an extension. I then think fairly reasonably that I'll be able to move a lot of stuff into the extension so that there's more room in the house but instead, I have a near empty room next to my house and there's nothing I can do to fill it...What am I missing here? A storage that has massive of space but nothing can go on it???
Save my sanity, please!

[Buenchico]

Have you enabled 'Install Supported Apps on Your SD Card'?

https://www.gadgetsalvation.com/blog/2016/01/07/how-to-use-a-microsd-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/

[Tarser]

Buenchico, yes. I have done that. The card has taken on a few books, some audio books and three out of six apps, taking up 2 and a bit megabites. Then there's a massive amount of free space.

[TheChair]

You need to tell the individual apps to use the SD card.
Kindle: tap more/app settings. Select "Download to SD card". You will be asked if you also wish to move your existing library there.
Audible: tap the doughnut/settings/download. Select "Download to SD card".

[Tarser]

TheChair: Thanks for your reply but I still can't get anywhere. Under 'storage' I have'move apps to storage card' and then get 'no apps available'. I have 835 MB of apps and games on the card but 8.19 GB on the internal storage. I can't find a way to tell individual apps to download to SD card:

The options I get for each downloaded app is 'Delete from device', 'delete from cloud' or 'share'.

I have lots of apps in the cloud that I can't use as there's no internal storage left and they won't download to the card, despite all that space. I just cannot see what the point of the card is. A storage card that can't store anything. ????

[barry1010]

Could you possibly transfer your books, music, films to the storage card via your pc/laptop?

What model Fire do you have?

[Tarser]

Barry1010: I have a kindle Fire HD8

I went on to my PC and I can only send audio books and books to my devices. There are no options to send to the SD card.

[barry1010]

Have you tried taking the SD card out of your Fire and connecting it to the PC?

[Tarser]

I'll have to give up on this one. I have tried all suggestions and nothing works. Maybe the card isn't compatible. It might be something as simple as that. Maybe it's just faulty. I don't know anything about technology except how frustrating and incomprehensible it is. Thank you for everyone who tried to help!

[pixie374]

Ring Amazon 08002797234. They are very helpful.