[k-9-mail] K9 doesn't write to sd card

[y***@gmail.com]

I just installed k9 because I read k9 can store emails onto the SD card. However I can't make it work.in the settings I changed the download folder to storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.fsck.k9 , but k9 cant put the downloads here. I get error message. In the account settings I use storage location is external SD card, but k9 keeps on using the internal storage.

I guess it has to do something with the write/ read allowances for the SD card? In other apps I get a screen where I have to set this before the app is able to use the SD card. I have a Samsung tablet 2016 with android 6.

Can somebody help me with this?

[Uwe Deutscher]

This is a very annoying issue I am expieriencing too.

Before I changed from Android 4 to Android 7 I always stored my attachments on my SD card.

From the moment on I changed to Android 7 I could set this in the settings of K-9, but it has never worked!

Developers, please start working on this issue!

Other Apps succeed in writing on SD under Android 7.



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Gesendet: 31. Dezember 2017 07:28:15 MEZ
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I just installed k9 because I read k9 can store emails onto the SD card. However I can't make it work.in the settings I changed the download folder to storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.fsck.k9 , but k9 cant put the downloads here. I get error message. In the account settings I use storage location is external SD card, but k9 keeps on using the internal storage.

I guess it has to do something with the write/ read allowances for the SD card? In other apps I get a screen where I have to set this before the app is able to use the SD card. I have a Samsung tablet 2016 with android 6.

Can somebody help me with this?

[Uwe Deutscher]

Amendment!

K-9 could't ever store emails on SD card, but it could store attachments, which doesn't work under Android 7.


-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
Von: ***@gmail.com
Gesendet: 31. Dezember 2017 07:28:15 MEZ
An: K-9 Mail <k-9-***@googlegroups.com>
Betreff: [k-9-mail] K9 doesn't write to sd card

I just installed k9 because I read k9 can store emails onto the SD card. However I can't make it work.in the settings I changed the download folder to storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.fsck.k9 , but k9 cant put the downloads here. I get error message. In the account settings I use storage location is external SD card, but k9 keeps on using the internal storage.

I guess it has to do something with the write/ read allowances for the SD card? In other apps I get a screen where I have to set this before the app is able to use the SD card. I have a Samsung tablet 2016 with android 6.

Can somebody help me with this?

[Tim Godfrey]

Same problem on Galaxy Note 3.
Fresh K9 Mail installed in May 2018

... but k9 keeps on using the internal storage.

I have K9 on Note 4. There is an Account Setting for Storage for every
account. The storage location is set to External Storage (SD Card).

In my internal storage
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files, there are thousands of
files.
In /storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files, there is nothing
(empty directory)

Furthermore in Global Settings, Miscellaneous, Save Attachements To is set
to /storage/extSdCard/K9_attach.
That folder exists, and is writable. (I just exported settings and saved
there). However all the attachments are in local storage in files like
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.fsck.k9/files/4456


There are no error messages. Why is K9 using the wrong storage?