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kiwix / kiwix-xulrunner

[ARCHIVED] Legacy Kiwix desktop solution for Windows/macOS/Linux
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-xulrunner/
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Not reading properly from manually mounted sdcard #350

Closed putogithub closed 7 years ago

putogithub commented 7 years ago

Hi ,i was testing version 2.0 and got some bugs . Then downgraded from official website to older version and it worked. Anyway both of them cannot read zimXX on sdcard. As i don't have an smartphone capable to read exFAT/NTFS , i forcibly mounted on /storage/sdcard1 and /storage/sdcard0/Kiwix (external sdcard has kiwix files) Even that ESExplorer is OK reading zim files from that mount point(and i can watch movies ,etc) kiwix as a real problem with this. Obviously is Read-only system , but i don't understand what's the problem if the main use of Kiwix are reading articles

kelson42 commented 7 years ago

@putogithub What is the problem exactly? The file does not appear in Kiwix or it appears but then you can not read it? What happens if you use a file which is not in chunks?

mhutti1 commented 7 years ago

@putogithub https://github.com/mhutti1/android-storage-devices/blob/master/src/main/java/eu/mhutti1/utils/storage/StorageDeviceUtils.java has a list of mount points that we check. /storage/sdcard0/ is not on there could you try mounting to one that is?

putogithub commented 7 years ago

Damn! I can't believe it worked. I tried several , and , in the end /storage/sdcard0/external_sdcard did the trick. If someone ever tries Paragon SW(android) as I did , beware of pesky SELINUX permissions. You have to set (on config) permissive to every option.And obviously , be able to see the files on ESExplorer or any file explorer that you may have.

I'm content and I think this issue is SOLVED , thank you @mhutti1

kelson42 commented 7 years ago

@mhutti1 Would putting "/storage/sdcard0" in the list of scanned mount points have helped? Do @putogithub's paths are completly random or somehow standarts? Strange that "ESExplorer" can see them...

mhutti1 commented 7 years ago

@kelson42 Yes it would help will add now so it is likely in the next release.