Taifun FileList method not showing all the files in shared storage

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see the overview here

Some basics on Android storage system

I have added another detail to my overview (top right, see pink box) and thus completed the overview. ( I hope. ) [grafik]

which means in your case you are trying to read non media files (csv files) from shared storage, so as you can see from the overview the file extension is only able to list your own files, but not those from other apps, for that you have to use the SAF extension

SAF: App Inventor implementation of Storage Access Framework

1.Introduction Description: Basically AI2 wrapper of Storage Access Framework. Using this extension, you can get read and/or write access to a single document or tree document (and all of its children recursively). Latest Version: 1.3 Released: 2021-09-16T18:30:00Z (UTC) Last Updated: 2023-11-15T18:30:00Z (UTC) 2.Blocks [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] 3.Documentation Events ErrorOccurred Event indicating error/excep…

EDIT: to set the scope property of the file component to something is not relevant for the file extension...
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