Much better! Now that you mention that I remember reading about that
before, but had forgotten.

Thanks again

On Oct 30, 12:09 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Make sure you have the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:02 PM, John Gaby <jg...@gabysoft.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the input.  I decided that the SD card is the proper place
> > for the files anyway, so I am trying to make that work.  Since I want
> > to support pre 2.2 versions, I am doing the following:
>
> >                String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
>
> >                if (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state))
> >                {
> >                        File root = 
> > Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
> >                        File ext = new File(root, "Android/data/" +
> > m_activity.getPackageName() + "/files/");
> >                        boolean b = ext.mkdirs();
> >                        String s = ext.getAbsolutePath();
>
> >                        ...
>
> > Unfortunately, the ext.mkdirs() call is returning false, and the
> > directories are not being created.  I did a web search, and it seems
> > like this is the proper way to create my directory.  Do you have any
> > idea why it is not working for me?
>
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>
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