I briefly tried the FDroid version too (which is a bit more up to date) and it didn’t work there either. There’s so much drama getting Google Play Store approval I’m not sure it even can work. It shows a data folder but that folder is empty. It has a little wheel next to the directory picker that gives you some “advanced” picker. I also tried SyncThing-Fork, an experimental version. In particular there’s a “Use advanced Folder Picker: Select any folder on the device for syncing” that sounds like it should enable the workaround. Which is a little weird because I think it’s supposed to work thanks to including this patch. All it shows me under “Android” is “media”, a sign that it’s stuck inside the scoped storage sandbox. Not sure how, I wonder if they’re using the opt-out procedure which is listed as “temporary”, a compatibly measure, and comes with other restrictions.īut this doesn’t help me with SyncThing it doesn’t seem to support the workaround. A bunch of file explorer apps (including Solid) have hacked around it somehow to show you all the folders. There’s a couple of workarounds to the Android restrictions. It’s great that Android has a filesystem you can just access at all but over time they’ve complicated it. There’s an elaborate new system called “Scoped Storage” where apps can explicitly choose to share files but a lot of apps haven’t really caught up to that. This is presumably a security update, I guess the assumption is most of the time those files are private to the app and shouldn’t be visible. ![]() Unfortunately as of Android 11, ordinary apps can no longer access the data folder of other apps. Seems logically consistent get to the root of the internal memory, then drill in on Android. This PC\Pixel 3\Internal shared storage\Android\data\ If I plug in my phone and access it on my Windows machine as a USB drive, I can find my data with this path: It’s just where the root is can be confusing. Bottom line: GPSLogger stores its files in /sdcard/Android/data/ under the root directory, at least on my phone. Click data, search the giant list for, and there I am. From there I can click Android and get three choices: data, media, and obb. (Presumably this could also be an SDcard or something). ![]() If I access this files via the SolidExplorer Android file browser it shows up as a storage named “Internal Memory”, the default. But the path from Android on down should be consistent. The first confusing this is that /sdcard prefix: apparently this is different on different devices. Here’s what’s going on.įirst off, where are the files? The GPSLogger docs say they are in a folder with a name like /sdcard/Android/data//files/. But I ran into a confusing permissions / security thing in Android where SyncThing couldn’t see GPSLogger’s data files. GPSLogger supports a nice variety of sync options but none are quite right for me, so I thought I’d try using SyncThing on the data files on the phone instead. I’m running the latest Android (11?) on a Pixel 3. I’m trying to synchronize data from Mendhak’s GPSLogger to other devices.
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