[BUG]: Cannot change AnkiDroid directory: directory wasn't valid

kik4444 commented 3 hours ago

Checked for duplicates?

[X] This issue is not a duplicate

Does it also happen in the desktop version?

[X] This bug does not occur in the latest version of Anki Desktop

What are the steps to reproduce this bug?

Go to Settings -> Advanced -> AnkiDroid directory and change it to /storage/emulated/0/AnkiDroid. I get an error saying The path specified wasn't a valid directory. The directory does exist and I can Export my collection to it, meaning that AnkiDroid does have write access to it. I can access the directory through Termux too so I can know its path is /storage/emulated/0/AnkiDroid.

I want to change AnkiDroid's collection directory so I can sync it up with my PC with Syncthing. I can't access AnkiDroid's default directory in /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.ichi2.anki/files/AnkiDroid

Expected behaviour

The directory for AnkiDroid's collection should be changed to the new one.

Debug info

AnkiDroid Version = 2.18.4 (f867da96b8304edaebd0361326316bc7514f8cde)

Backend Version = 0.1.38-anki24.04.1 (24.04.1 ccd9ca1a8309b80bcb50ddc5d99c7ce63440bce9)

Android Version = 14 (SDK 34)

ProductFlavor = play

Manufacturer = Nothing

Model = A065

Hardware = qcom

Webview User Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; A065 Build/UP1A.231005.007; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/128.0.6613.148 Mobile Safari/537.36

ACRA UUID = 9e472c2e-cc7c-4fd3-b791-a95c50d5c8dd

FSRS Enabled = false

Crash Reports Enabled = true

(Optional) Anything else you want to share?

I tried changing the directory to the target one while it's empty and while it contains my collection.anki2 and some other files. In both cases it didn't work.

Research

[X] I have checked the manual and the FAQ and could not find a solution to my issue
[ ] (Optional) I have confirmed the issue is not resolved in the latest alpha release (instructions)

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kik4444 commented 3 hours ago

Sorry, I missed some pages like these two https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/16365 https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Full-Storage-Access

Switching to the fdroid version does ask me for full disk access now and I can change the collection directory like I wanted to.

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