Questions tagged [react-native-fs]
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react-native-pdf-view - How to populate pdfView with base64 or blob
I am using the react-native-pdf-view library and I am having trouble populating the PDFView with a pdf.
How my project works is that I receive a base64 pdf from the server where I then save to the android file system by using the library…

Larney
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react-native-fs ENOENT: open failed: EACCES (Permission denied), open '/storage/emulated/0/Download/ after reinstall
Hello everyone
Environment :
Android 11
react-native 0.68.5
react-native-fs 2.20.0
Need:
Save files persistent to the application (if I uninstall the application the files need to persist). If I reinstall the application I need to be able to…

Laura Friess
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react native file system, fs, cannot find taken pictures
In my ReactNative application I am using "react-native-vision-camera": "^2.13.5" for taking pictures.
After the picture is taken and uploaded, I want to delete it from the device, but the RNFS (react-native-fs) cannot find the file by the given…

Amir-Mousavi
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How to get all the pdf files available in internal storage of android in react native
I am using react-native-fs for reading files in device's external storage. I want to get all pdf books stored in an android device and list them in the screen. Searched in google, read docs in react-native-fs but not succeed getting all pdf books.…

Abdul rehman Tahir
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react-native-fs Android 11 save File in /storage/emulated/0/Download
we are using react-native-fs for android 11. i have the problem that i can't save Pfd and Excel files on the Downloads folder (/storage/emulated/0/Download) anymore, because we edit the files via other apps and then upload the file again in our app.…

Benq
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can read /storage but cannot read /storage/emulated in react-native-fs [Error: Attempt to get length of null array]
I'm trying to write an app that needs to navigate through file system (directory based music player). For that I'm using react-native-fs. The problem is that I can read content of the /storage directory but when I'm trying to read any deeper like…

Verysmartnick
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json file not updating in react native
i want to write to a JSON file so i used react-native-fs
here is the code:
const add = (n, p, pr) => {
var RNFS = require('react-native-fs');
var filePath = RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath + '/items.json';
RNFS.writeFile(filePath,…

lcl code base
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Access jobId to stop download react-native-fs
How do I access jobId during the download. I have my download function stored in a separate *.js file
RNFS.downloadFile({
fromUrl: item.thumb,
toFile: `${RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath}/${item.id}.jpg`,
begin: (res) => {
…

Oleksandr Fomin
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React Native - Get file name from android content uri
I need to get file name from android content uri, for example:
content://com.android.providers.downloads.documents/document/15
I try to used react-native-fs stat but it return error of "File does not exist".
How can I do it?

david890ch
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How to get real path from URI of a file in sdcard?
I'm using react-native-document-picker in order to pick files and send them to the server. After picking the file, I use RNFetchBlob.fs.stat(uri) from rn-fetch-blob package to get the real path from the URI that the picker gives me. It works fine…

Zeynab Rostami
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React native video from local file
I am using react-native-video (v 5.0.2) and try to play file from local.
It's working in Android but not working in iOS.
I created the file that I want to play with react-native-fs. This is my code:
Write file:
const localFilePath =…

david890ch
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react-native-fs path not found?
import RNFS from 'react-native-fs';
var path = RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath + '/test.txt';
RNFS.writeFile(path, 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet', 'utf8')
.then(success => {
console.log('FILE WRITTEN!');
})
.catch(err => {
…

ebyte
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In a react-native android project,How to copy a folder from assets to the DocumentDirectoryPath?
I am using a react-native project in which,I want to copy the contents of a certain folder in assets inside android to RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath. How can this be performed?
I have used the attribute copyFileAssets().
copyfile() {
…

Aishwarya R M
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React native file system to read directory recursively to get sub folder and items in it
I can able to read the files in a directory using following function
const path = RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath;
RNFS.readDir(path)
.then((result) => {
console.warn(result);
const Files = [];
if(result != undefined…

Jothi Kannan
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react-native-fs.the actual document directory path in android
I tried the code for creating a file, and i created two files, and that is
// require the module
var RNFS = require('react-native-fs');
// create a path you want to write to
var path = RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath + '/test.txt';
…

Pons Suarez
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