G+_Ken H Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Quick question for those of you on a Lollipop device that has an SD card. How do you delete files on the SD? Just got my Shield Tablet today & was watching a show. I wanted to delete the first;e after but it won't at all. I tried with Total Commander & ES File Explorer (TC is my favorite but ES came preinstalled). I have verified that the SD is mounted as read/write & the folders/files are too. There is no error when trying in TC but it doesn't delete. ES it says it can't delete. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Phil Chung Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Does the Shield tablet have its own native file manager? Try deleting with that if it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Phil Chung nope, it just had ES on there. Thanks though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Phil Chung Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Paul Werner? no doubt the file managers will be updated the new Lollipop file access APIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yep, just waiting on that so I don't have to pop the SD in & out all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alasdair Graham Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Do you have a preinstalled app called My Files? On my Samsung devices that can delete or write to files on the SD card, but Astro and ES cannot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nope, it only came with ES for file access and I've tried TC too. I didn't update ES yet so I'm going to try that later today to see if that makes any difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Not to bug you really but I'm wondering if this can be asked in the show Jason Howell . I can't be the only one putting files on an SD card on a Lolipop device that can't delete those files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ok, tried on an updated ES and same thing... "task failed" when trying to delete... sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Phil Chung Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Oh... There was just an update for ES File Explorer that is supposed to fix Lollipop file access. You're running v3.2.3.1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Yeah I updated it just before my last post and went to a file I wanted to delete and got task failed. Not sure if I need to do anything to remount or whatever. In TC it says it's read and writable. Not sure how to navigate ES since I've used TC for so long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Phil Chung Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Paul Werner? try this: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/790055/shield-tablet/sd-card-read-and-write-ability-on-android-lollipop-help-please-/post/4371940/#4371940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Phil Chung Just tried and now the tablet won't read the SD card after I named it in Windows. Right now I'm copying the data I had on it to my PC before I put it back into the tablet to reformat it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Nvm, had to reboot and it saw it but it still won't let me write or delete files in ES on latest version with then SD named SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alasdair Graham Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 What a pain. I know that Google isn't a big fan of SD cards, but almost every phone manufacturer supports their use. If we have to put SD cards into a PC then it's so much more time consuming and less convenient than just editing files via apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Alasdair Graham yeah, at least I found that when I hook it up to the PC via USB it'll let me manage files too. Still a pain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ok so I found this http://goo.gl/vk51Gk I'm going to try this when I get home. The guy in the video kinda drags on a bit to explain it but it looks like this is my fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 OK, got it to work in ES. I had to be on the latest version (which I was) but to trigger the ability to do this I needed to try to copy something from internal storage to the SD Card. Once that was done it brought up the "document picker" screen in Android & I had to select the root directory of the SD Card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Phil Chung Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Okay, so simply trying to delete a file wasn't enough to trigger Android to ask for permission. Good to know for when my HTC One M8 finally gets Lollipop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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