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The closest thing to documentation I can find having to do with file storage is this post (see below if you can't access it), but it leaves me with several questions. I would really, really, really like a knowledgeable explanation of what paths map to what storage here, seeing as how we're supposed to hard-code them, and how precisely we're expected to access them. An actual code sample would be superlative. My best guess from messing around with this is that: /sdcard-> maps to the internal eMMC slot, and access is restricted. Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(); ... still returns this.

I am trying to create a database on my sd card. Whenever I call SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase I get the error: 07-21 13:33:17.587: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5541): Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: unable to open database file Does anyone know what may be causing this? Here is the code I have in the open() method of my database class: File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(); String dbfile = sdcard.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator+ "external_sd" + File.separator + Schema.DATABASE_NAME ; db = SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(dbfile, null); fyr One possible

I have a bunch of Android devices from different vendors. Some of them attach /mnt/sdcard to internal storage and /mnt/extsd to external storage(Scenario 1) and others attach /mnt/sdcard to external storage(Scenario 2) I think the second scenario is standard since the Android API provides a handle to this path. Now the problem is that in scenario 1, /mnt/extsd becomes readonly even with WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission! This means I can only read data from the actual external sd card and not be able to write to it. Is there a workaround for this so I can write to the extsd folder ?

According to various answers here and in the web extending Application and it's inherited method getDatabasePath() would allow to set the database storage path from the standard internal memory location to an inserted SD-card of bigger size. This is not working for me. The suggested construct is still using the database on internal memory. In fact the method getDatabasePath() is never called by SQLiteOpenHelper. I would like to get this up and running. Here's what I did so far: 1.) Extending Application: public class MyApplication extends Application { @Override public File getDatabasePath