Android Lollipop: Where is the Osmand directory for maps etc.

[Brian A]

I have just got a new phone (Honor 5X)  and I want to copy my osmand 'favourites', maps etc. from my old phone (S3) to my new phone.
It was easy enough to download all the osmand directory from the S3 to my computer but I can't even find the osmand directory on the 5X.
I've tried searching on my computer via a USB connection and also with 'Total Commander' file browser on the 5X - (running Lollipop).
I have 'view hidden files' enabled just in case.
I've looked in the 'Android' directory under net.osmand>Files -  it is totally empty. There is no other trace of an osmand directory. I tried moving osmand to the SD card via the 'App. Manager' and then looking on the SD card - again to no avail. Grrhhhh why do they make it so impossible and difficult to find! I downloaded a map purely to make sure something was being stored and this showed up as data in the App. Manager - over 600MB. Now that file has to be somewhere - but where. Do I have to root my phone to find this. All I want to do is copy over my data.
This is really, really  frustrating. It should be easier than this to migrate from one phone to another.
Can anyone help please before I go completely bonkers!?

[Max1234Ita]

In OsmAnd, just navigate to Settings/General Settings menu, and have a check to the Data storage folder option: this is the path of your current folder.

If you are moving data from an older device to your externa SD, it's recommended to set OsmAnd's storage folder before copying your files into it: I'm not an Android expert but I think  there is some issue with folder owner and permissions at OS level.
A program restart may be required after copying.

If you copy your files from your previous phone and then set the folder in OsmAnd, it may happen that OsmAnd is not able to recognize anything there ;)


If you still have problems locating the folder, another way to do that is to access the Download menu in OsmAnd and wait a few seconds: the program will refresh the list of available items and save it in a file named regions.ocbf, into the storage folder: just search for that file in your device, and voila ;)


Regards,
Max - Italy

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[Brian A]

Thanks Massimo, That is VERY useful information. The data is stored under /data and that is not accessible unless I root the phone. As the phone is new and it's doing mostly what I want I don't want to root it just now unless I really have to. I'm waiting for the delivery of an SD card atm, so when I get that I'll attempt to change the data storage to the SD card. If this all works then that will be sooooooooooo useful, thanks.

[MAx 1234]

Il giorno mercoledì 20 aprile 2016 11:49:10 UTC+2, Brian A ha scritto:

Thanks Massimo, That is VERY useful information. The data is stored under /data and that is not accessible unless I root the phone. As the phone is new and it's doing mostly what I want I don't want to root it just now unless I really have to. I'm waiting for the delivery of an SD card atm, so when I get that I'll attempt to change the data storage to the SD card. If this all works then that will be sooooooooooo useful, thanks.

It's strange, I have a Galaxy S5, not rooted yet :p, running Lollipop 5.0: There, the internal SD path for OsmAnd folder is /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/net.osmand.plus (actually I'm using a nightly build of v. 2.3)... and it's accessible even with non-stock File Manager (i.e. Total Commander). Anyway, did you try to access it with the stock file manager? It looks like it has some "special access right", being also capable of writing the external SD (yes, you can't access external in write mode from Android, with third-party file managers unless you root, and BTW this makes me going nuts :-/)

Folder Path should be the same also in LP 5.1, but i know there could be different mappings of the same folder inside the very same cell phone... and with different access rights too!
Just have a deeper check, but I would not be surprised if Huawei decided to screw up the things more than Google itself did...

Cheers,
Max