Help No Longer able to delete files?

[TheAlien]

I use Act 1 to watch movies on my phone (mainly because it has a neat little "Resume" widget). It's what keeps me sane during the smoke breaks at work. After getting the latest upgrade to Android 4.4.2, I can no longer delete a movie from within the program, nor from my XPlore app. It says the file is deleted, but once I reload the programs the file still remains. I have to actually connect to my PC and delete it from there.

I know lots of settings were changed (at least for me) after the latest upgrade a few weeks ago. Is there a setting somewhere that sets whether you can delete a file from the SD card? Has anyone else had an issue similar to this with deleting files from the phone itself, rather than using a PC connection? Or am I a lone survivor out here stuck in my own private little pit of quicksand?

 

[Rukbat]

Kit Kat (4.4.2) puts the same security on the SD card as it does on the internal storage, and I think that's where you're running into your problem. The app you're using to delete the file doesn't have write permissions for that file, so it can't delete it. (When you connect the phone to the computer, Windows doesn't know anything about Android permissions, so it just deletes the file.)

It's going to be a problem until app developers catch up to the change. But still, an app that didn't create (or download) the file in the first place won't be able to delete it, unless everyone (there are 3 "groups" - everyone is one of them) is given permission to do everything - in effect the app defeats the security that 4.4.2 added.

 

[TheAlien]

Thank you for the response, especially taking the technical and making it English . Maybe I'll shoot a quick "Report" to the developer and see if they can find a solution or work-around.

 

[funkylogik]

Thank you for the response, especially taking the technical and making it English . Maybe I'll shoot a quick "Report" to the developer and see if they can find a solution or work-around.

Yup I definitely encourage people to contact developers. It's amazing the effect it can have.
Or you could root the phone to get past the restrictions if you're the tinkering type