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Hi,

 

I've just received my new phone (Huawei P9 Lite - very impressed by this one!). I have installed a nice big 64 GB SD card to store pictures, music, and of course more importantly geocaches :rolleyes:

 

So, I installed GDAK and subsequently followed instructions to create a "GDAK" folder in the root directory of the SD card. Then I copied a GSAK database folder (all files) into this folder. So, I have <SD-card root>/GDAK/Denmark, where Denmark is my GSAK database directory containing the files.

 

So far, so good.

 

But, then my problems start. I press "settings", then "Choose GDAK dir", then press the folder icon in the upper right corner. Then I select the SD card. This takes me to the "/storage/<SD card id>/Android/data/nl.wlsoft.tfnxDroid" folder. It is showing here "cache" and a "files" folder. However, there is no option for me to go up in order to reach the SD card root directory (where my GDAK folder is stored).

 

I'm guessing this could be some form of security restriction in Marshmallow Android version?

 

Any ideas or hints?

 

Regards,

Jens/geo.jens

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Marshmallow wont allow you to use the root of your SD card for app data (unless rooted, and even then not with all apps)

You will have to use /storage/<SD card id>/Android/data

 

Ok, got it working finally. GDAK does not allow me to browse to any directory above /storage/<SD card id>/Android/data/nl.wlsoft.tfnxDroid, where I can see a "files" and a "cache" folder.

 

What I did in the end was place the "GDAK" directory parallel to the "files" directory. I also needed to create a GsakData.txt file with an overview of the databases (directories).

 

Thanks for the help.

Jens

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