ah my bad, I missed that. Very confusing tho, since the documentation
says about that column:


public static final String DATA

The data stream for the file

Type: DATA STREAM
Constant Value: "_data"


that sounds to me more like a BLOB than a path!


On Mar 27, 2:45 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Read my post from yesterday at 10am again :-)
>
> Execute a query using your content-uri, and use the returned cursor to
> obtain the physical file-path (use the ImageColumns.DATA).
>
> On Mar 27, 9:27 am, matthias <m.kaepp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > okay, one solution is to do something like this:
>
> >         String path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory
> > ().getAbsolutePath()
> >                 + "/dcim/Camera/" + [value of DISPLAY_NAME column for
> > this image];
>
> > and then do a new File(path).length()
>
> > but I'm not sure if that path value is portable between Android
> > devices.
>
>
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