Android- moving photos to SD card

vickia

Hi,
I have the Samsung s4 and realized after doing much research that smugmug app is taking up 1gb of space. I am trying to move the stored images/ galleries to my external sd card on my phone but I keep getting this era: An errror occurred during the move:/storage/extSdCard/Android/data/come.snapwood.smugfolio/files.GtjDvT/.nomedia: open failed: EACCESS (Permission Denied)
Any idea as to what to this means and how to allow the images to be send to my sd card?
I attached image just in case
Thanks for your time.
Vicki

mrneutron

Google made external sdcards read only in Android 4.4. It is no longer possible to write to any location on the sdcard. Please see the following:


https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=65974
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-platform/14VUiIgwUjY

snapwood

Vicki,

While Andy's response is generally what happened to apps in Android 4.4, our app should do better

Please go into the app settings -> support -> and enable logging. Then retry the move and once it fails, take the "Send Logs" menu action above your list of galleries in the main app. That will prompt you to send us an email where I can help dig into this further.

Thanks,

Brian

WinsomeWorks

snapwood wrote: »

Vicki,

While Andy's response is generally what happened to apps in Android 4.4, our app should do better

Please go into the app settings -> support -> and enable logging. Then retry the move and once it fails, take the "Send Logs" menu action above your list of galleries in the main app. That will prompt you to send us an email where I can help dig into this further.

Thanks,

Brian

In the first reference thread listed below by MrNeutron (Andy), you can see a post from Jan. 2014 which says this: "

The camera app and other system apps can write to the secondary-storage/SD card because they have the WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE ("Modify/delete internal media storage contents") permission. This permission is only granted to system apps that request it. User installed apps can request the same permission but the system will ignore it. The Samsung file manager gets this permission, so you may be able to use it to do what you need (while not being at all anti-competitive ).

Here's a screenshot of the apps that get this permission on a stock Verizon Note3 (stock ROM): http://android.nextapp.com/content/fx/external/MediaWrite.png "

Oh. shucks. I was thinking that meant the SmugMug app should then be able to get permission to write to the SD card. But now I see the little word "system" apps.... so, maybe not, unless there's some workaround. It's all about the push to use cloud storage instead, which seems completely ridiculous to me. I have nothing against cloud storage & use it a lot. However, anyone who's traveled in or lives in a mountainous or remote area knows how limiting that is, sometimes for weeks/months/years at a time. I was recently in a large part of Pennsylvania (PA Wilds) where there was absolutely no access of any kind, unless you happened to be very close to the few Wi-Fi spots. Any cloud use was impossible. Ideas like this always stem from people in areas where lack of internet access is unimaginable. And/or... they have plenty of $$ to throw at some kind of mobile Wi-Fi subscription, and/or paying for huge data plans means nothing to their wallets.