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Well, that's a bummer.

Maybe we could provide an option to select between Android\data and Android\media, that defaults to Android\data and has a warning that it might stop working in future Android updates if the user changes the location to Android\media, similar to how we handle save states on Android? Another approach I could think of is keep using Android\data but provide an option to import whatever the user has put into Android\media to Android\data.

From the dev side, I agree the code for handling that will probably be ugly, but from the user side, not having to deal with workarounds that may or may not work (depending of the device) to access the user data folder might justify the effort...

If someone else wants to implement an option to use Android/media/, I'd be willing to include it in Dolphin. But personally I'm just tired of dealing with scoped storage at this point...

I rarely announce things before they're ready but I AM working in moving the user folder to Android/media (the location change was trivial, working on the UI side now, including a migration prompt and lots of testing). Yes, getExternalMediaDirs() is currently marked as deprecated but I don't think Google will drop it entirely any time soon, especially considering a lot of apps (including most of the big chatting apps, like Telegram and WhatsApp) are also using Android/media since the Scoped Storage enforcement took place.

A lot of our users still struggle to access the user folder and all workarounds we provide are cumbersome and/or unreliable (some don't even work anymore in Android 13). That's just bad and I don't think that's acceptable, when we could be using Android/media since the enforcement took place and basically eliminate most of the headache Scoped Storage brought. In the worst case scenario of Android 14 completely removing access to Android/media, we would still one more year after its final release before targeting its API becomes mandatory on Play Store, that's late 2024 at best...