Android file permissions

[supton]

Well, I decided to pick up one of the Amazon Fires, as I just wanted a book reader. Which could surf the web and play Sudoku. Try as I might, $90 is much cheaper than anything Apple; Samsung had a few models that I was willing to pay--but the specs seemed low. I looked at the Paperwhite but decided I didn't like it, not for its price. [So far, other than the display being pretty low-rent while websurfing, I find it ok. I turned on the blue shade thing, and it's a wonderful book reading experience--no retina burning backlight.]

Problem: I downloaded a Notepad app, as I want to write text files. Ideally I'd save them to the SD card. Anything goes awry with the unit and I can remove the card, and pull the files off in my PC. I was able to paste a text file to the SD card, but the Notepad app couldn't save to the SD card. I was able to save a file to the internal memory, but here it got weird: my Win10 laptop acted like it could properly read nor edit either file location. Like I could paste a file to those locations, but when I would try to edit it'd fail; and if I tried to just open the file it would open a prior version.

I'm still poking around, reading up on rooting and file permissions; I don't think I want to root (warranty etc). But am I barking up the wrong tree here? I figured I could just edit simple text files willy-nilly--and I'm starting to think I was naive.

 

[racer12306]

Can you use Microsoft Word on a Fire?

If so, you can use that and save it to one of the variety of clouds and then it's accessible that way from any place you log in.

The whole accessing of stuff from an SD card can be goofy in Android. There was a period where you couldn't write anything to SD, you could only read from SD. But in the newer versions, I think that has changed. So it may also depend on what version of android your FireOS is based on. Changing that is going to be dependent on the Amazon ecosystem because like iOS, you are stuck to their system unless you do something like root it.

 

[supton]

I haven't check for a Word app; I was going to avoid MS and stick with "simple" file formats. Stuff that I should be able to work with years later. I'd think text and rich text file formats would be around for a long time to come. Also, the files should be small, as should be their apps.

I got "bit" by Apple losing some of my notes (as generated by its Notes app)--I never backed up my iPad, so my fault, really. After one of its updates it somehow lost the files; and since it's a walled garden approach... I haven't a clue where to look for them. Sometime before that I had switched to a text editor (for unrelated reasons) and started periodically emailing the files to myself as a backup. With my move off of Apple I was anticipating this being a lot more like Windows (Linux?) where the files would be much more accessible.