problems reading SD Card

[mariosteffen]

I am having problems trying to read a file from the sdcard.

The file is on the root of the card and the command is below.

MsgBox(File.ReadString(File.DirRootExternal, "a.txt"), "")

The error message is java.io.FileNotFoundException:/mnt/sdcard/a.txt (No such file or directory).

Can you help me, please ?

 

[Erel]

Android file system is case sensitive. Are you sure that this is the correct name of this file?

 

[mariosteffen]

Yes, Erel, I am sure the name is lowercase.
Do you have any suggestions ?

 

[vb1992]

Which phone are you testing on?

 

[mariosteffen]

I am testing on a Motorola Atrix with Android 2.2.2.

 

[mariosteffen]

I copied the file to B.TXT (everything uppercase) and changed the apk to the same, but it did not solve the problem.

 

[walterf25]

what format are you using on your sdcard, "FAT32", "NTFS", "xFAT"?

 

[vb1992]

There is something with SD CARD being sdcard2 with motorola's
you can check into this for starters

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-updates-questions/12735-creatring-file-sd-card.html#post71738

 

[mariosteffen]

Thanks vb1992,
you put me on the way to solve the problem.
This phone has 2 sd cards. One with 16gb as the "main memory" and the other, with 2gb. The file was on the second. Everything worked when I copied to the biggest.