[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #12727: ANDROID: Allow Save location in SDcard (Write permission on SD)

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#12727: ANDROID: Allow Save location in SDcard (Write permission on SD)
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Reporter:  LukasThyWalls                         |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  feature request                       |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal                                |   Component:  Port:
                                                 |  Android
 Version:                                        |  Resolution:
Keywords:  Android, SDCard, Write permission,    |        Game:
  Savegames, Feature request                     |
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Comment (by LukasThyWalls):

 >> Can you confirm that you got this redirection to an interface in order
 to set a folder to allow access?

 No, i am not getting it. I tried to choose the (real) sdcard directory
 root (''/storage/9016-4EF8/''), the directory i want
 (''/Juegos/ScummVM/Saves/'') but i'm not getting a "system" browser to
 allow writing. The only thing i have is a message saying "The chosen
 directory cannot be written to. Please select another one".
 Other apps like SyncMe Wireless or NewPipe do the thing you described and
 they do it and then they can use the SD to write, but ScummVM is not doing
 this.

 >> ... There could be a regression...

 It's something i wanted to report, because is happening for a while. I
 have this phone since more than two years and it never do this if i
 recall.
 I didn't report earlier because i remember reading something about this
 issue and people from ScummVM team saying they don't wanna fix it because
 is an issue of Android itself for changing the framework again and again
 and they don't wanna spend time in their constant changes... but it has
 been a while since then, and now i remembered this and i don't find any of
 that messages here, in open or closed tickets. Maybe they are in the
 forums, or i have dreamed them...

 >> The second issue you're reporting it's the intended behavior. We put it
 there so that people would not navigate to a "/" or an empty path "" and
 couldn't recover from there. Some of those shortcuts are expected to not
 be useful (to most users anyway), or even redirect to the same thing, but
 other than that I don't see a bug in the feature. If you still think
 there's an issue there, please elaborate further.

 I point that out because maybe is related to the other issue, but if you
 can access to all the directories needed it's not an issue, and looking
 where go all the shorcuts, you can go where you need.
 I'm only saying the names doesn't match where they go and they are a
 little confussing: At least in my phone, the ''sdcard'' is not the real
 sdcard, is the internal storage, the ''data (ext)'' is the ScummVM data in
 internal storage, and the ''data (int)'', is the /data directory in the
 "system"? storage (or whatever is called, the root linux partition what
 have all the OS), what also is empty for me because is unnaccessible
 without root.
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