Write file to /external_sdcard/documents

[Roger Eller]

Gotta love those undocumented features.  Thank you very much for that tip!
 I'm trying mergAndroid out now.

~Roger

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com
> wrote:

> On 23/09/2013, at 11:28 AM, Roger Eller wrote:
>
> > I haven't tried mergAndroid yet, but I do have "prefer external storage"
> > checked.
>
> Do you mean write external storage?
>
> > When I looked for my file that was written to
> > specialFolderPath("Documents") & "/data.txt", I couldn't find it.
>
> SpecialFolderPath("Documents") is private data storage. There's also an
> undocumented SpecialFolderPath("External Documents") on android which is
> also private but in external storage. mergAndroid gets the paths to the
> public folders on the external storage that user's can copy files into.
>
> --
> M E R Goulding
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> mergExt - There's an external for that!
>
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