On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Terry <terb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been searching for answers to this question, but found none. > The Environment method getExternalStoragePublicDirectory() normally > seems to returns "/mnt/sdcard", regardless of whether the sdcard is > mounted or not. It is easy to detect if it is unmounted, but in that > case it is NOT so easy to find out WHERE to save data. If the sdcard > is unmounted, writing to "/mnt/sdcard" normally fails.
Usually, at this point, you don't write anything, but rather alert the user that you cannot work with your files at the present time. You could always fail over to saving to internal storage, though space may be an issue. > For devices which emulate the sdcard (in case it is unmounted), there > often (?) seem to exist a directory "/mnt/emmc" I presume that by "often" you mean "not often". -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.7 Available! -- 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
