Android Download Manager setDestinationInExternalFilesDir

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Aravind Srivatsan picture Aravind Srivatsan · May 25, 2013 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

I am using the Download Manager and when I use 

 setDestinationInExternalFilesDir(this, Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "example.ext");

the files are downloaded to Android/data/com.example.app/files/Download folder.

When I try 

setDestinationInExternalPublicDir("/folder", "example.ext");

I get: IllegalStateException: Cannot create directory mnt/sdcard/folder. I've set the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission too.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer

MDMalik picture MDMalik · May 25, 2013

Why don't you use absolute path for ExternalFileDir

File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
String folder = sdCard.getAbsolutePath() + "/YourFolder" ;
File dir = new File(folder );
if (!dir.exists()) {
if (dir.mkdirs()) {
    Log.i(Tag,"Directory  Created");
    }
}

I guess this might even work for you.

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