Simon wrote:Now if you say I want to just interact with the SD card, that is another story and /mnt/sdcard/ is the place.
OK, for simplicity that's what I want to do - interact with the SD card !
I haven't explained well, apologies, one last try (but, to be fair, your quote above sums it up adequately) : I have a file on my Mac that was created by my working app (post dev time). I want to be able to transfer that file to a duplicate of the app running on my Android. Not at design time, or immediately thereafter - as an ongoing affair. Say I'm out and about with my Android, I save some data with my app... I can e-mail a zipped version of my new data to my Mac and the App (on the Mac - or PC) will locate and open it (with a little direction from/navigation by me) and that's simple... BUT, when I then want that same data (now modified by the Mac) to be available to the app on my Android... it's not so simple... The simplest way I can come up with is to remove the SD card from my Android, put it into my Mac, dump the modified file from my Mac onto the Android's SD card, pull the SD card out of the Mac and put it back into the Android and then have the app find it and copy it into its working sandbox / docs folder. To be fair I guess it doesn't really matter why---it's the how to pass data, on an ongoing basis, between Mac (or PC) and Android... the reverse way is simple enough. My next step is to be able to e-mail it BACK to the Android and have the app find it... but sandboxing etc means the file is easiest if it's back out on the EXTERNAL SD Card in the 'My Documents' folder or some such...
Simon wrote:/mnt/sdcard/ is the place.
... Unfortunately, this simply points to the INTERNAL SD card (be it an SD card in reality or not). I'm trying to get access to the EXTERNAL SD card... and have tried dozens of guesses as to it's name/path/ID but... so far... to no avail...
I can say that /mnt/, /sdcard/, /mnt/sdcard/ are all resolved to the same INTERNAL SD card but, like I say, I want the EXTERNAL one...
Sorry to be a pain in the proverbial... shouldn't be THAT difficult but it is... The specific Android device is an ASUS Transformer TF701 Infinity on ICS (4.1.1) and it's really annoying me now....
Thanks Simon.
I'm 'getting there'... just far too slowly !
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