I've recently updated my Galaxy Note 2 to Android 4.4 and now I can't write to my external SD card. Apparently Google has changed things so that each app can only write to it's own directory. The online write-ups of this are mostly written by stupid people who say things like "this stops other applications from writing to your Internet banking files" when really what you want is to protect against READING internet banking files (something Android 4.4 does nothing about).
Access to the primary "external" storage area (IE a directory tree on the device for downloaded files etc) is not restricted so Android 4.4 doesn't even protect any application data from writing in a useful manner (some apps just change to "primary external storage" instead). I've been using Olive Tree FTP server to upload TV shows to watch on my phone but it now can't write to the SD card. I tried creating a directory named /storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.theolivetree.ftpserver (the directory that should be permitted by Android 4.4) but that fails. How do I go about making this work in the designed manner? Is there some special directory I should ask my FTP server to create? Is there another FTP server I can use? Failing that has anyone got KDE's support for media devices to work with an Android 4.4 device connected via USB? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
