Dn't write on android 14

[AP2020C]

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Description of the bug

Assuming that all I want to file is to write a log file in a subfolder of the home or document folder, regardless of the device, thus without letting the user choose where to save, on android 14 it created a file in the place I selected but did not write the content Reproduction steps

`using SimpleFileBrowser; using System.Collections; using System.IO; using UnityEngine;

public class SaveFileExample : MonoBehaviour { private void Start() { SaveFile(); }

public void SaveFile()
{
    StartCoroutine(ShowSaveDialog());
}

private IEnumerator ShowSaveDialog()
{
    // open dialog
    yield return FileBrowser.WaitForSaveDialog(FileBrowser.PickMode.Files, false, System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.UserProfile), "new file.txt", "Save", "save");

    // 
    if (FileBrowser.Success)
    {
        string filePath = FileBrowser.Result[0];

        // 
        using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filePath, false))
        {
            writer.Write("Content");
        }

    }
}

} ` Attach this to any object. The file is created but not written Platform specs

Please provide the following info if this is a Unity 3D repository.

• Unity version: 2022.3.45f1
• Platform: Android (bad works), Windows (in editor, good work)
• Device: Samsung Galaxy S8+, Android 14
• How did you download the plugin: Asset Store

Additional info impossible to catch the error

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[yasirkula]

You need to use FileBrowserHelpers to work with Storage Access Framework file paths on Android.

[AP2020C]

Can you share a code that shows how to do it?

[yasirkula]

Example code uses FileBrowserHelpers.CopyFile( filePath, destinationPath ); and I'd recommend the same but you can also call other functions like FileBrowserHelpers.WriteTextToFile( filePath, "Hello World" );

[AP2020C]

This time it didn't even create the file. I need to write the file in multiple times, so copying is not an applicable way.

[yasirkula]

May I see your final code?

[AP2020C]

I paste in an external file because it interprets it wrong here

https://pastebin.com/KCbWteAt

[yasirkula]

If you'll be passing raw filepaths to FileBrowserHelpers, then you can just use System.IO. It won't work though because of Android's IO restrictions. Which is why you need to use FileBrowser to pick a filepath and use that path in FileBrowserHelpers. Paths returned by FileBrowser won't be raw filepaths but rather Storage Access Framework paths.

[AP2020C]

Thanks, I don't know by what sorcery, it works, at least for now. I had come to the conclusion that android had banned writing files to external storage.

So it is not possible to export a file to a predetermined location, just asking the user for write permission only first time? Like documents/ap.2020/today.txt

I would like to ask you to add public functions to transform from an enum the standard paths, such as home, documents, sd, others, that can then be combined with subpaths

[yasirkula]

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is removed on latest Android versions so Storage Access Framework is mandatory going forward. persistentDataPath and temporaryCachePath are safe to use, though.

There isn't a function that takes a raw filepath and converts it to Storage Access Framework path. If you find a working solution, do let me know.

[AP2020C]

OK, I was hoping that was possible. Thanks for the help. I hope someone will find a better solution.