Access the Download folder from Android 11

There are only two Shared folders to save non-media files (like .csv):

  1. /Download
  2. /Documents

Note: /Downloads is NOT a Shared folder.

However, you cannot use SAF to access a non-media file from /Download that was not created by the app itself. So the file must be saved in /Documents or some other folder - other than

  • /Download or
  • the root directory of the external storage.

We can thank Google for all this "rubbish". :wink: This constant restriction and paternalism must and will stop.

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