Android Question Problem with SaveAs function

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noeleon

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I ran into a problem running the example from

SaveAs - Let the user select a target folder + list of other related methods

B4A + B4i example: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-texteditor-save-and-load-external-files.132731/#post-838166 List of classes or libraries that can be used to access secondary storages: ContentChooser (Phone libray) - allows the user to select a resource or file using external...
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If you overwrite a bigger file by clicking its filename before clicking SAVE, the new data is written but the file is still the same size and old contents remain.

How to fix this?
 
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josejad

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Don't you get a new filename? Erel said if the file exists, the name will be changed

The file name will also be changed if there is an existing file with the same name.
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SaveAs - Let the user select a target folder + list of other related methods

B4A + B4i example: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-texteditor-save-and-load-external-files.132731/#post-838166 List of classes or libraries that can be used to access secondary storages: ContentChooser (Phone libray) - allows the user to select a resource or file using external...
www.b4x.com
 
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zed

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José J. Aguilar said:
Don't you get a new filename? Erel said if the file exists, the name will be changed
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Exact.
When I save a file with the same name, it offers me name(1).
If I select the file, it is overwritten and the new data in the file is correct.
 
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noeleon

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zed said:
If I select the file, it is overwritten and the new data in the file is correct
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I use SaveAs for backup but I recently noticed that the file keeps getting bigger even if the data saved is small.

Here's a screen recording showing the before and after of the overwritten file.
 
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