hi justin, thanks for the response.
supposing i'm running on a real device and the user doesn't have an SD card. then what? thanks, j >You should put temporary files somewhere in /sdcard, as generally this >will have more available space than a device's internal storage. For >this to work you need to use emulator options to specify an sdcard >image that was created with the mksdcard utility. > >You're getting the error you're getting because /sdcard doesn't exist >since you haven't specified an sdcard image file. > >Cheers, >Justin >Android Team @ Google > >On Oct 3, 3:02 pm, Jason Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> is there a good spot in the filesystem to park temporary files? >> >> i notice from rummaging around that there is no /tmp on this Linux >> box, and File.getTempFile() fails, with the error "can't create >> /sdcard/$filename". >> >> (and android error messages should be more informative in general, IMHO.) > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
