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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

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410 points morsch | 1 comments | 14 May 25 05:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.307s | source
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jeroenhd ◴[14 May 25 10:49 UTC] No.43982964[source]▶
> SAF cannot be used, as it is for sharing/exposing our files to other apps

SAF can be used. There are reasons why this wouldn't be a good fit for NextCloud (you can't share your entire internal storage, your download folder, or the root of an SD card, for instance), but I don't think NextCloud's statement makes sense.

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lozenge ◴[14 May 25 10:56 UTC] No.43983014[source]▶
The point of their app is to backup an entire folder. Sharing from one app to Nextcloud doesn't provide ongoing access to backup later versions of the file.
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jeroenhd ◴[14 May 25 10:57 UTC] No.43983020[source]▶
Which they can do, using SAF, without the "access to everything everywhere" permission that they want.
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jasonlotito ◴[14 May 25 14:55 UTC] No.43985277[source]▶
Curious also, why can't users have access to everything everywhere for their own files?
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1. nolist_policy ◴[14 May 25 16:04 UTC] No.43986150[source]▶
Users can access almost everything everywhere with file manager apps. On the Play Store, file manager apps are one of the exceptions that are allowed to access all files.