[android-developers] Re: File.setReadable not available before API level 9

On May 5, 4:15 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> setReadable() is not your problem -- all files on external storage are readable.
>
> If you are running into this problem on Android 3.0+ devices, you need
> to index your file:
>
> http://commonsware.com/blog/2011/08/31/mtp-external-storage.html

Thanks. You were right. All I needed to do was:

final String[] arrayOfPaths = {outfile.getAbsolutePath()};
MediaScannerConnection.scanFile(this, arrayOfPaths, null, null);

just after closing outfile and now the file appears in Windows
explorer via USB. And you were also right that the device I was
testing on was Android 3.0

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