Can Droidscript successfully read and write to an external SD card now (using app.GetExternalFolder() or other commands)?

[davefinney]

Can we write to the external SD card, if so how?

IOW, does app.GetExternalFolder() now work?

On some phones GetExternalFolder writes to the internal SD (with a different path to GetInternalFolder), sometimes it doesn't write to anywhere, but I've never got it to write to any external SD card.

I wrote the following to prevent any write to external SD appearing on the internal SD.

   var intSD = app.GetInternalFolder() +"/App_name/";

   int_db = intSD +"Database1";

   var extSD = app.GetExternalFolder() +"/App_name/";

   ext_db = extSD +"Database2";

if ( app.LoadBoolean( "mem_G", true ) )
{
   var int_db2 = intSD +"Database2";
   if ( app.FolderExists( int_db2 ) ) app.SaveBoolean( "mem_G", false );
   else if ( app.FolderExists( ext_db ) ) extSDexists = true;
   else
   {
      app.MakeFolder( ext_db );

      if ( app.FolderExists( int_db2 ) ) app.DeleteFolder( int_db2 ), app.SaveBoolean( "mem_G", false );

      else if ( app.FolderExists( ext_db ) ) extSDexists = true;

   }
}

[Steve Garman]

You probably need to use app.CheckPermission and app.GetPermission which were added in DS1.61

I'm not sure whether they are Premium only.

There is certainly a sample app which is Premium only but I'm not sure about the methods.

Will do my best to find out.

[davefinney]

Thanks Steve,

I'll await your reply with interest,...

[Steve Garman]

No, there is no straightforward way to access the external cards across different versions of DS without a Premium Subscription.

[davefinney]

Oh no, that's a shame. I spent ages writing and testing (and failing) to write to the external SD on several phones on the basis of the available commands, docs and assurances here that a fix was imminent.

I'll now have to go through my prog to remove all of the external SD accessing.

May I ask, is GetInternalFolder() reliable across all devices?

[Dave Smart]

What fix?  It works in premium.

Premium is not very expensive Dave... we desperately need more premium users to fund the development of DroidScript!