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Originally Posted by jbsavitz
I own two Android tablets. A Samsung Note Pro 12.2 with Android 5.02 and a Nexus 7 (2014) with Android 6.01. I use the cloud feature of CC to load books onto the tablets for reading.
This feature works great on the Samsung with Android 5.02 and I can find the USB flash drive listed under storage and find the Calibre library.
However, with the Nexus 7 and Android 6.01 I can't locate the USB Flash Drive in the storage folder.
Does anyone else have this problem with Android 6.01? Is there a workaround or fix that anyone knows about?
Thank you in advance for your responses.
Regards,
Jim Savitz
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I assume you are connecting the flash drive using an OTG (On The Go) cable.
Yet again, Google is being your friend. On Samsung devices, OTG devices are (AFAIK) automatically "mounted" when connected, meaning that they become part of the file system. Programs like CC can see and use the files.
Google didn't do this with Nexus devices. Instead they make OTG devices available as part of the never-to-be-damned-enough Android Storage Access Framework. The result: programs can see and use the files only if they use the SAF, which does not present storage as a file system. CC's local storage cloud connection doesn't (can't) use the SAF, so it can't see the flash drive.
I have been looking at how to make the cloud connection support the SAF. Unfortunately (again) it is complicated, requiring significant redesign of the relevant parts of CC. Sigh ...
If your N7 is rooted then you can solve this problem with the StickMount app (or others like it). I can't help with rooting, but I can say that I have used this toolkit on my own devices:
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/.