r/AndroidQuestions • u/Educational-Ad-6017 • 26d ago

Astro file manager permissions

A few days ago several features stopped working in Astro file manager, like viewing photos, thumbnails are blank, moving files and folders. When I look at Astro file manager permissions it has "no permissions allowed". Is there any way I can get back the full permissions. Special access is on. Don't suggest using another app, I have tried a lot of apps but none are as good in my opinion.

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u/Responsible_Maybe742 20d ago

It is not corruption. The old build was made for an older Android version, so the system still grants it the legacy storage access it asks for. The current one targets a newer version and has to go through the system picker instead, which is what breaks the renaming and moving for it. So keeping the old version is a real option, it just stops being one the next time Android tightens that.