Question Android 13 Foldersync Unable to access Android/data folder

[BiBaBuTzE]

hello, since Android 13, Foldersync has no longer access to the Android/Data folder. Can someone help me or give a workaround?

 

[roirraW "edor" ehT]

Hi. If no one else has any other ideas, you can try the developer of the app. If this is the app here FolderSync, it shows the developer information as:

Developer contact​

Website
http://www.tacit.dk

Email
[email protected]

 

[Lughnasadh]

hello, since Android 13, Foldersync has no longer access to the Android/Data folder. Can someone help me or give a workaround?

Some info...

Why an Android file manager can't open folders under /Android

File managers aren't supposed to be able to access folders under /Android, but a loophole let them. Android 13 closes that loophole.

blog.esper.io

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1560716910001520641

 

[BiBaBuTzE]

Some info...

Why an Android file manager can't open folders under /Android

File managers aren't supposed to be able to access folders under /Android, but a loophole let them. Android 13 closes that loophole.

blog.esper.io

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1560716910001520641

Hi, please can you explain step by step what i must do to get access to the Folder. Foldersync needs Access to this Folder. Thx a lot and have a nice day

 

[Lughnasadh]

I haven't tried it, but this is supposed to take care of the problem, if rooted...

GitHub - Magisk-Modules-Alt-Repo/NoStorageRestrict: Remove the restriction when selecting folders through SAF

Remove the restriction when selecting folders through SAF - GitHub - Magisk-Modules-Alt-Repo/NoStorageRestrict: Remove the restriction when selecting folders through SAF

github.com

 

[mwaseem851]

In android 13, data and obb folders are blocked. Tried many file managers with root to copy game data in obb folder but failed. Even the Xposed module "no storage restrict" did not worked. Finally copied data through browsing "/data/media/0/Android/obb". You may try this with root.
I am using Evolution X 7.1 on Redmi Note 11.

 

[Lughnasadh]

There are some file managers that are catching up with this. MiXplorer and FV File Manager have updated to allow access to /Android/data & /obb directories in Android 12+.

 

[Johnn78]

Now I have access to Android/Data & Android/Obb but I can't paste any file to these folders. I use ES File Explorer. I don't want to use other file manager like MiXplorer and make the trick of splitting screen with drag & drop so that to write files to the above paths. How to make it in the ES File Explorer or if it exists some magisk or xposed module in which to disable this restriction and to be like in Android 12 in which we didn't have any problem in accessing or writing any file to above paths ?

 

[Strephon Alkhalikoi]

I use ES File Explorer.

This is your problem right here. ES File Explorer stopped working properly upon release of Android 11 or 12. I discontinued my modded versions of the app at that time and switched to something that DOES work.

Get another file manager.

 

[card13]

This File Manager tends to work in A13, I moved from ES a long time ago when they removed some features, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore .

 

[Johnn78]

This is your problem right here. ES File Explorer stopped working properly upon release of Android 11 or 12. I discontinued my modded versions of the app at that time and switched to something that DOES work.

Get another file manager.

When I went to Android 13 then I had ES File Explorer which didn't have access to Android/Data. Then I found ES File Explorer v4.4.0.2.1 which has the ability to have access to Android/Data but it hasn't the ability to write (via copy - paste) to Android/Data. This problem doesn't exist only to ES File Explorer but in all File Managers which I have used like File Manager+, File, MiXplorer, Xplore etc... The MiXplorer which can write to Android/Data not be done via copy - paste but via some trick by splitting screen and drug-drop the file which is some intermediate solution. If it is found some solution which can work the copy - paste to Android/Data then this will work to all File Managers which means that the problem isn't that the ES File Explorer is deprecated. May exist some magisk module or lsposed module which deactivate the SAF (Storage Access Framework) permission in which wasn't enabled in Android 12.

 

[Strephon Alkhalikoi]

This problem doesn't exist only to ES File Explorer but in all File Managers which I have used like File Manager+, File, MiXplorer, Xplore etc...

ES File Explorer, as I said in my previous post, no longer works with current versions of Android. This is because there is no one working on its code. No one to fix bugs when they appear. No one to ensure root functions continue to work. No one to enable proper access to Android/data.

There are file managers out there that are not ES File Explorer, and while you have tried some, you've not tried them all. I tried Root Explorer just now and had no problems copying files to /Android/data in internal storage; no tricks or workarounds needed. So I stand by my statement. Especially as the file manager I now use doesn't have this issue.