How to copy files from internal storage into scoped storage in an external SD card in the Podcasts directory?

[mitchdowney]

How to copy files from internal storage into scoped storage in an external SD card in the Podcasts directory?

[alpha0010]

From what I can tell, it is an incompatibility. I will see what I can do.

[alpha0010]

Should be fixed in v2.4.4.

I would like to add features from libraries such as react-native-scoped-storage and react-native-document-picker to this library, so that only one library is really needed for file handling. However, I just do not have the time for that currently. (PRs always welcome.)

[mitchdowney]

Another thing related to this...it seemed like cpExternal() might be intended for this purpose (copying a file from internal to scoped SD card storage), but cpExternal() doesn't have the "Podcasts" directory as an option.

Beyond that though, cpExternal() isn't working for me, even with the "downloads" param, I think because the openDocumentTree method will not let me select the Download folder to give it scoped storage permission.

Any insights on what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

[mitchdowney]

@alpha0010 do you think the incompatibility is with react-native-scoped-storage? Or something else is incompatible?

[mitchdowney]

@alpha0010 follow-up question...the only reason we are using react-native-scoped-storage AND react-native-file-access (assuming react-native-file-access does in fact support scoped storage) is because react-native-scoped-storage has an openDocumentTree method so that the user can select which directory to use for scoped storage. Is there a method similar to openDocumentTree in react-native-file-access? Or is the expectation for us to use a separate library to enable scoped storage?

[mitchdowney]

@alpha0010 it works! I was able to download audio files to the SD card for the first time 🥳 thanks so much for the quick fix!