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"Save as" action being offered when trying to "Explore" a USB disk

Open o-alquimista opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

To reproduce

  1. Insert a USB disk and press the "Explore" button.

Notification panel showing a USB disk available with actions for Explore and Eject

  1. Choose Material Files to handle it (in the "Use another app" section). Notice that its action is "Save as".

Dialog asking which app to use to handle this action

Instead of mounting and opening the USB disk, Material Files will try to save a file named as the device UUID to your internal storage:

Material Files offering to save a file

System info

  • Motorola Moto G32 (devon)
  • CalyxOS 5.14.2
  • Material Files 1.7.4 (39) installed from F-Droid.

o-alquimista avatar Jan 15 '25 19:01 o-alquimista

I have this exact issue with pixel 7, android 16, material files 1.7.4

decimoseptimo avatar Sep 11 '25 07:09 decimoseptimo