Create a folder and move a photo into it

I tried this, I don't really know how to use the Copy method because it says in the documentation that it is a boolean and I joined it in a conditional block without having much idea why. By the way, the link to Anke's tutorial is very good. I would be in the case of a microsd. I have tried several folder managers, but they have me a little confused because they say that the root of my microsd is /storage/6539-3263/ but if I go to the root of the file system, inside /storage there is only one folder, which is emulated/ I don't really know why?
Anyway, these are the blocks I have tried and the error I got:


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Because your microsd is not in your device's root file system

I thought it would be mounted inside /storage or inside /mnt. In linux everything hangs on /.

Whilst I agree with you, android does not present it that way, and you can't see it in /storage/.

  1. You cannot save a file to a removable SDcard since Android 4.4 (API 19, KitKat).
  2. The File component requires a relative path (with DefaultFileScope to the ASD and with Legacy to the root directory of the external storage).
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I have Android 14 on my phone. Are you telling me that there is no way to save a file to the micro SD expansion card? Is it a limitation of Android or AppInventor? How do other apps do it? Because I have several that write their data there. Or do you have to request permission or take another route to do the task?

Anyway, are the blocks used correctly as I mentioned above to capture an image and save it to disk? When you take the photo, it is already saved to disk, right? It doesn't stay in RAM or something like that, right?

Thank you for your patience.

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No, as I said the File comp. needs/uses a relative path.

Thanks, Anke. Now it works by saving the image to the internal memory folder. Now I have another problem, when I compile to an APK, the path changes and it stops working, obviously. I notice that now the path includes my mobile user in its string, if I install it on a different mobile, it will have another user and it will not work. Is there any way to get the username to get around this problem?


In segment block there is: file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/edu.mit.appinventor.aicompanion3/files