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[ android ] 30.0.50; unable to access device storage

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: జిందం వాఐి
 <jindam.vani <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 67759 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67759: [ android ] 30.0.50; unable to access device storage
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:42:45 +0800

Please don't remove the bug tracker from the CC list.

జిందం వాఐి <jindam.vani <at> disroot.org> writes:

> On 2023-12-11 06:38, Po Lu wrote:
>
>> This might seem trivial, but people have run across this pithole
>> before:
>> have you erased the leading "~" character in the default file name
>> prompt?  If not, do so, as Android's storage directory is located at
>> /sdcard rather than your home folder.
>> But assuming that you have, you've likely omitted the trailing "/"
>> after
>> the file name that informs Emacs it is a directory.  Absent this
>> character, file name completion will complete from / instead of
>> /sdcard,
>> and your device is one of those which deny Emacs the rights to examine
>> /.
>
> menu_ file_ opendirectory
> * ~/
> * press enter
> * shows 6 files [ 2 saved messages,
> emacs.d, emacs-fa...., 2 dots ]
>
> no effect [ using hackerskeyboard ]
> on find file or open directory
> * omitted ~ and type sdcard or
> storage
> * omitted ~ and / and type
> sdcard or storage

I don't understand, sorry.  Would you describe the actions you took in
English, rather than as such a heavily abridged enumeration?

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