On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 8:58:03 AM UTC+1 micha***il.com wrote:
> Total Commander, x-plore, Solid Explorer can do it. Fully on INT SD, > reading on EXT SD private folders of any app. > Why? They applied for permission MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE. Seems yours did > not. > The makers of OSMand did not even try to apply for this permission and go > into the discussion with Google why this is needed for geo apps, too. I do > not claim that would be easy, but they could have started this process > early. > > > My Total Commander app can not access the "special" directories even if I granted it all possible permissions. If I go on SD Cards, I can not see anything under /Android/data but for the folder of Total Commander itself. If I go to the Internal memory what I can see under /android /data is the folder of Total Commander and a special one which appears under the name of "-> Installed up" (starting with two characters forming an arrow) If the last one is selected a pop up screen comes up with instructions, but even if I follow them or if I try all possible things, I can get no way to write or even read in any subdirectories It should be better if such a discussion would be also copied/moved to the Android support forum (where I can not write at the moment because some moderators choose to block me because I politely point out that this new system would have risen a lot of problems). In another message it was written >> They applied for permission MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE Is it a thing that a developer just select or it a thing that Google has to grant to just the developers the choose to? P.S. I fond some information on this page https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/manage-all-files However I can read Write access to all internal storage directoriesâ , except for /Android/data/, /sdcard/Android, and most subdirectories of /sdcard/Android. This write access includes direct file path <https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/media#direct-file-paths> access. So even with this permission the app would not be able to access directories under /Android/data (but it could access the directories in other part of the SD card) AnyFile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/902dcc39-87af-4271-b8af-ec857c4cdacan%40googlegroups.com.
