From: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 64445@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64445: 30.0.50; Android: Emacs cannot access /storage/emulated/0 although other apps can
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:05:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qhohziz.fsf@zamazal.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5wcsdpg.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2023 08:49:31 +0800")
>>>>> "PL" == Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
PL> Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org> writes:
>> On my Onyx e-ink reader, running probably some version of Android
>> 10, I cannot access the external directory (either /sdcard or
>> /storage/emulated/0) due to “Permission denied”. I understand
>> the Android system may not be cooperating, but e.g. Termux
>> running on the same device can access /storage/emulated/0, after
>> running termux-setup-storage, happily. Both Emacs and Termux
>> have the same “Storage” permission as reported by the system.
>>
>> The Emacs version is 2023-07-03 from SourceForge.
PL> As described by the Emacs manual, you should allow Emacs ``all
PL> files access''. This option is usually found in a section
PL> titled special app access in Settings.
>> Sorry for not providing the automatically gathered information
>> but due to the permission problem above and the fact that the
>> Emacs directory seems to be completely invisible, even when the
>> device is connected via USB (all the other apps are present in
>> /Android/data, but Emacs is not there and I couldn’t find it also
>> anywhere else), I don’t know how to share anything from the Emacs
>> on the device with the outer world.
PL> Emacs's home directory is its ``internal app storage''
PL> directory. Android is distributed with a file manager that
PL> should be able to display this directory in its hamburger icon
PL> menu.
The device is an e-ink reader with a highly customized environment. It
doesn’t have the standard settings manager, nor the standard file
manager. All I can say is that:
- Emacs has the same storage permission as the other applications that
can access the storage without any problems (e.g. Termux or a
third-party file manager).
- I had to enable the permission manually, Emacs didn’t ask for it
itself (unlike e.g. the file manager does). I also tried to reboot
the device, the permission is still there but Emacs cannot access the
storage.
- When I mount the device storage on my desktop computer via USB and run
‘find -name "*emacs*"’ on it, the only thing found is the *.apk I
installed Emacs from. Again, the directories of other applications
are visible.
As no other application I use on the device (e.g. several applications I
installed from F-Droid) suffers from the storage access problems nor
requires anything unusual to access the storage, I believe it’s an Emacs
bug. Please tell me if there is anything I can do to help identifying
the cause of the problem.
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2023-07-03 20:12 bug#64445: 30.0.50; Android: Emacs cannot access /storage/emulated/0 although other apps can Milan Zamazal
2023-07-04 0:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-04 8:05 ` Milan Zamazal [this message]
2023-07-04 8:30 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-04 8:50 ` Milan Zamazal
2023-07-05 0:42 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-05 7:41 ` Milan Zamazal
2023-07-05 7:59 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-05 9:44 ` Milan Zamazal
2023-07-05 12:21 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-05 13:35 ` Milan Zamazal
2023-07-06 0:24 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-06 7:30 ` Milan Zamazal
2023-08-18 4:13 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-18 17:17 ` Milan Zamazal
2023-08-19 0:13 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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