Well these are his exact words:

" BUT I can actually create files in that folder using ES file explorer or 
by copying files to it. I cannot however, rename or delete them. "

So he's not saying he was using ES to copy the files, but he was using ES 
to create files in there.  Not sure what that means.



On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:42:14 PM UTC+8, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
>
> Your user is very clever, because I get a message saying "Copying failed" 
> when trying to copy to this second memory card with ES on my S.
>
> There is a built-in app that lets you transfer files to and from this 
> memory card, and that's it.
>
> As far as rights go, here is what I see. Note the different owners. This 
> is 4.0.3.
>
> >>>
> kman@ivy:~$ adb shell ls -l /mnt
> drwxr-xr-x root     system            2012-08-14 11:23 asec
> drwxr-xr-x root     system            2012-08-14 11:23 obb
> d---rwxr-x system   sdcard_rw          1970-01-01 04:00 sdcard
> d---rwxr-x system   media_rw          1970-01-01 04:00 sdcard2
> drwx------ root     root              2012-08-14 11:23 secure
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk1
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk2
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk3
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk4
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk5
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk6
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk7
> d--------- system   system            2012-08-14 11:23 usbdisk8
> <<<
>
> >>>
> kman@ivy:~$ adb shell ls -l /mnt/sdcard
> d---rwxr-x system   sdcard_rw          2011-09-27 11:05 Alarms
> d---rwxr-x system   sdcard_rw          2011-08-17 07:40 Android
> <<<
>
> >>>
> kman@ivy:~$ adb shell ls -l /mnt/sdcard2
> d---rwxr-x system   media_rw          2012-02-06 19:30 LOST.DIR
> d---rwxr-x system   media_rw          2012-04-25 18:01 transferred
> <<<
>
> -- K
>
> 2012/8/14 Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>
>> I know this is probably not the best place to ask, but I cannot think of 
>> a better one.
>>
>> The Sony Tablet S uses an "external" storage, which is actually internal. 
>>  It's real SD card is on some other path.  My app allows the user to 
>> configure their folders using a full path name.  My user has done this 
>> giving it the full path to a folder on the SD card.
>>
>> My app does a sanity check on the folder to make sure it's ok -- one of 
>> the checks done is to call File.canWrite().  This fails on this folder and 
>> I display an error message.
>>
>> But, the user claims that using ES File Explorer, he can actually 
>> create/copy a file in this folder, but cannot delete it or rename it. 
>>  Looking at the folder permissions, w is not set, so canWrite() returns the 
>> correct value according to the permission set on the folder.
>>
>> Can anyone have any ideas what's going on here?  How can a file created 
>> in a folder, but then not be able to modify it?
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