Unable to Dump database

[SebiderSushi]

• Vanilla Music Version (Settings -> About): 1.3.0
• Android Version: LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11)
• Phone vendor / model: Xiaomi Redmi 4X
• Application was downloaded from (use [x]):
  • [ ] Play Store
  • [x] F-Droid
  • [ ] Other (Nightly Build)
• Did this work in a previous version?
  • [ ] Yes
  • [ ] No
  • [x] NA / Don't know. - It works with Vanilla Music 1.3.0 on Android 8.1, but that's obviously before scoped storage. I didn't test an older version of Vanilla Music on Android 11

Description

Settings > Media library > 3-dot Menu > Dump database does not work. Vanilla Music does not report any error either.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Go to Settings > Media library

2. Open the 3-dot Menu, then click Dump database

   • Vanilla Music displays the usual toast Database dumped to '/storage/emulated/0/dbdump-ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla.sqlite'
   • The file does not exist
   • System Settings App info for Vanilla Music shows the permission Allow access to media only is granted
   • Vanilla Music is able to access Music files stored on my SD Card in my own custom folders (Outside of Android/media/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla or Music/ or any other default storage folder android creates.)

Error message from adb logcat

03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider: insertFileIfNecessary failed
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Primary directory null not allowed for content://media/external_primary/file; allowed directories are [Download, Documents]
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.ensureFileColumns(MediaProvider.java:2746)
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.ensureUniqueFileColumns(MediaProvider.java:2411)
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.insertFile(MediaProvider.java:3064)
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.insertInternal(MediaProvider.java:3616)
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.insert(MediaProvider.java:3332)
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.insertFileForFuse(MediaProvider.java:6802)
03-14 02:26:02.006  4365  5398 E MediaProvider:     at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.insertFileIfNecessaryForFuse(MediaProvider.java:6889)
03-14 02:26:02.007  5623  5623 V VanillaMusic: Debug dump failed: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /storage/emulated/0/dbdump-ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla.sqlite: open failed: EPERM (Operation not permitted)

[CaptainKarma]

Apps are not allowed to write to that location anymore, change line 224 in;

app/src/main/java/ch/blinkenlights/android/vanilla/PreferencesMediaLibrary.java

final String path = context.getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS) + "/dbdump-" + context.getPackageName() + ".sqlite";

This then dumps the file to \Phone\Android\data\ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla\files\Download

Tested and works on my system

[pancho-villa]

@CaptainKarma If this doesn't get merged, is there any way I can get a copy of the sqlite file myself via ADB or something?