Storage scope and file management suggestions

panopticon

I always start off with good intentions of keeping my files organized but as time goes on with different apps placing the same file types in different locations my phones files get to be a mess. In light of storage scopes does anyone have suggestions of how to organize your phones files? I was thinking of making a scopes folder in which each app would have a specific folder that it had access to beyond the ones they already do. Please let me know your thoughts on this or how you have yours setup.

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That's what I did: A storage scopes folder in "download" and I put subfolders there for each apps that requires limited access to my storage.
It's easy to get organized like that.

panopticon

[deleted] I read what Graphene says about storage scopes and I am unclear if apps without storage permissions which have access to Download/ are also given access to subdirectories within Download/ or only to the base directory.

Oleg

panopticon some apps use storage access framework, which is the less invasive type of accessing the files. And you can select any folder this way.

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panopticon If you give access to a directory, you give access to everything in, including the subfolders, i just tried with threema.

matchboxbananasynergy

panopticon From the page you linked:

create files of any type (both media and non-media) in Documents/ and Download/

Having the ability to create files is not the same as the ability to read files.

panopticon

[deleted] So setting up a folder inside downloads with subfolders for each app that is given storage scope access to each folder is worthless as every app by default without permission already has downloads accessible including its subfolders. 🤔

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panopticon No.

In "download", I have a folder "storage scopes".
And in this folder, I make a folder for each application:
Download>Storage scopes>signal
Download>Storage scopes>Standard notes
etc

Each application has access only to its own directory : in the settings, I give the storage access to the last directory, not to "download", neither to "storage scopes".
Signal can't see in the Standard Notes directory

If I set the rights for signal above, to download, then yes, it will be able to see all the other directories.

h4k2t

interesting