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Android 4.4 Disables SD Card Access for Apps

posted by Dopefish on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-way-or-the-highway dept.
quadrox writes:

"It used to be possible for Android apps to access any kind of storage on an android device through the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. Writing to the SD card is useful for many different kinds of apps, e.g. file managers or cloud storage synchronization. However, the latest version of Android will no longer allow apps to write anywhere on external storage media, instead apps will only be allowed to access app-specific folders on SD cards. Android Police has an excellent writeup of the changes and the implications for users."

[ED Note: This is bound to irritate power users that rely on their SD cards for additional device storage.]

 
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  • (Score: 1) by jcd on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:45PM

    by jcd (883) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:45PM (#2586)

    Can we just use symbolic links to connect apps to a shared pool if you want them to? I know it undoes whatever security you earn with this move, but if you have a folder full of ebooks, for example, and want to be able to use multiple readers without duplication, the two of them could point to the same directory.

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  • (Score: 1) by adolf on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:33PM

    by adolf (1961) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:33PM (#2972)

    Symlinks? On FAT32?

    How?

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  • (Score: 1) by jor on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:56PM

    by jor (1606) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:56PM (#3144)

    The thing I love about this thread: people are reading an awful lot of "eBooks" and "pdfs".

    I know, I know, some of you are probably actually reading eBooks. Don't get mad at me if you are. I suspect they are a bit overrepresented in the complaints versus the lack of complaints about not being able to watch and listen to questionably obtained movies and music. Just saying.