I wrote a reply to this, but I guess it was censored. I 
was complaining about manufacturer fragmentation, again.

If I have a directory like this: mnt/sdcard/app/dir

mkdirs("app/dir") fails; mkdirs("app") followed by mkdirs("app/dir") works. 
This is extremely unusual.

On Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:53:37 PM UTC+1, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
>
>  I just tried this on my Galaxy Nexus with official 4.0.2, and it 
> definitely works, with and without the training slash.
>
> mkdirs returns false if the directory already exists - are you sure yours 
> don't?
>
> Also, does your app have the permission to write to external storage? 
> IIRC, some really older platform versions used to enable this permission if 
> it wasn't declared.
>
> -- K
>
> On 03/10/2012 11:38 PM, GJTorikian wrote: 
>
> It seems that that's entirely the problem. When I try to perform a 
> mkdirs() operation, I get a return of false. 
>
>  So, for the structure of: /mnt/sdcard/myapp/
>
>  new File("/mnt/sdcard/myapp/").mkdirs() fails--but again, only for this 
> device, it seems.
>
>
>  

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