Apps moved to SD card are moved back to device through updates by Google Play

Hello This happens on both my Z3 Compact (5.0.2 - v23.1.A.1.28) and Z3 Tablet Compact (5.1.1 - v23.4.A.0.546) This is really annoying. After running out of space on the devices, I went through all the trouble of moving a bunch of large apps to the SD card but then halfway through an update by Google Play Store found that the devices had run out of space again. A quick look confirmed that the "move to SD card" option was again enabled for apps previously moved but then subsequently updated through the Store. TIA

When you move an app to the external SD-card you're only moving the apk-file (the file that you download from Google Play). You can't move the apps private data and databases.
Say for example that you download an app from Google Play where the download from Google Play is 40MB. After it's installed you go to Settings -> Apps -> On SD Card and open that app. If you here check "App on device" and then move it to the SD card you will see that after moving it, "App on device" will have decreased with the file size you downloaded from Google Play (40MB).
The apps are moved to the folder .android_secure on the root of the external SD but you will probably not find this folder using a file manager in the phone. You can see it if you were to connect the phone to a computer in MSC-mode though.
I beliveve the mount point for it in the phone is /mnt/asec
For more information, also see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/install-location.html
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