Ergh... that may be a bug. :( To be clear, when doing the update your internal data is not being erased, but the data on the SD card is?
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Joseph Earl <joseph.w.e...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have an application which resides on the phone memory but downloads > large data to the SD card on first launch (the app needs to be able to > work without an internet connection most of the time) > > When using the recommend directory given in Froyo it seems all files > on the SD card are deleted when I install a newer version of the .apk. > I'd preferably like the files removed on uninstall, but not on upgrade > since the files on the SD card aren't going to change between > application versions, and forcing the user to re-download a large file > that is independent of the application version does not seem > reasonable. > > At the moment it seems I'm forced to use a different directory to the > recommended one in order to stop Froyo deleting all the files when the > application is upgraded. > > Am I doing something wrong, or is this how it is supposed to work (I'm > guessing it is)? (Or perhaps I misunderstood what getExternalFilesDir > is for) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
