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Android 13 SD card missing data and media folder #1082

Closed lestofante closed 5 months ago

lestofante commented 5 months ago

Description of the issue

Im on Lineage android 13. According to https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/wiki/SD-card-write-access I should have write access to special folder inside of the SD card; but such folder does not exist and I dont know if or how could be created.
Maybe this has been removed again in android 13?

Reproduction Steps

Install android 13 and try to select and SD card folder as target

Version Information

Catfriend1 commented 5 months ago

Hi,

please try looking for the correct /storage/xxx or /mount/... path manually using the "gear icon" next to the folder selection button in the new folder dialog. Different ROMs may have different paths to the SDcard storage. Android's native SAF file picker sometimes has a three dot menu on top where you can click on "Show internal storage" and "Show SD card".

lestofante commented 5 months ago

please try looking for the correct /storage/xxx or /mount/... path manually using the "gear icon" next to the folder selection button in the new folder dialog

it does show few option, but they are all in /storage/emulated, that is the internal memory. I verified with a file manger, and i can see the sd card and the /storage/[ABCD-EFGH]/Android/media with some other app folder, but not for synchting. /storage/[ABCD-EFGH]/Android/data/ is not readable without root, so no idea what is there.

Seems like the folder did not get created?

Catfriend1 commented 5 months ago

Recent Android versions block access to /Android/data, so I'd suggest to stay away from it.

lestofante commented 5 months ago

So i did some testing and I managed to write there but i had to ask permission for the specific file (android 13) AFAIK you can ask permission for the whole folder, but it get lost on app reboot, so need to be asked again every time (kinda annoying, but). It was a bit of a pain to set up, but im new to android so maybe is my ignorance