download file to custom directory

Question

I am using the DownloadManager to download a file to my Android device. I can choose to download to the DCIM, Downloads, Picutures folder, etc using:

downloadRequest.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "file.jpg");

This works. But I can only choose a limit set of folders to download to. I want to download to the root of my sdcard using /sdcard/

I tried:

downloadRequest.setDestinationUri(Uri.fromFile(new File("/sdcard/file.jpg")));

But this renders the following exception:

IllegalStateException: android invalid combination of destination: 4, path: /sdcard/file.jpg

How can I do this? I have all the required permissions set.

@AgataSworowska same result...java.lang.IllegalStateException: invalid combination of destination: 4, path: /sdcard I get same error if I try a subdir of sdcard — bvanvelsen - ACA Group, Oct 19 '12 at 10:08

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '12 at 10:22

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Try like this.

downloadRequest.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir("/folderName",file.jpg);

This will create a folder in you external storage root and place the file.jpg in it.

answered Oct 19 '12 at 10:22

abbas.aniefa

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Does the setDestinationInExternalPublicDir works on Samsung devices? I tried on Galaxy S3 and it didn't. – Leebeedev May 25 '15 at 13:42

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '13 at 06:32

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Fixed it by using

request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir( "/APP_NAME/", FileNameGetter.getFileName(DATA..url) );

answered Jul 13 '13 at 06:32

Adil Bhatty

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What is FileNameGetter in your example? Is that part of some library? – bvanvelsen - ACA Group Jul 15 '13 at 11:13
@bvanvelsen, its small method, which gets me the file name from url. – Adil Bhatty Jul 17 '13 at 05:51
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@kaibuki then your anser is incomplete please add that method also. – Smit Patel Sep 25 '14 at 05:32

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '17 at 16:07

As per the official documentation, you should only use either of the following variants, using one of the available Environment.DIRECTORY_* constants:

myRequest.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "my_sub_folder/my_file.txt");

where the directory type (i.e. the first parameter) may not be null, or

myRequest.setDestinationInExternalFilesDir(myContext, null, "my_sub_folder/my_file.txt");
// or
// myRequest.setDestinationInExternalFilesDir(myContext, Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES, "my_sub_folder/my_picture.jpg");

where the directory type (i.e. the second parameter) may be null.

In any case, specifying a (sub)folder in the last parameter is optional.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 03 '22 at 14:18

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Not one of standard directories: /folderName. For setDestinationInExtrnalPublicDir() to work the given path must be one of the standard directories such as Music, Download etc...

answered Feb 03 '22 at 14:18

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