Can't delete a file from phone storage in Android

Asked Mar 13 '17 at 18:11

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I am trying to delete a file located at the path

"/sdcard/Download/images.jpg"

What I've done so far:

try{
        File file = new File("/sdcard/Download/images.jpg");
        if(file.exists())
        { deleted = file.delete();
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "File Deleted "+deleted,Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
        }
        else
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "File Not Deleted "+deleted,Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
    }catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();


    }

Now I'm getting a toast message:

File Deleted false

and the file is still at its place(Not deleted :( ) Also I've given android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE in Manifest file.

asked Mar 13 '17 at 18:11

saurabh gupta

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32635704/android-permission-doesnt-work-even-if-i-have-declared-it Also, never hardcode paths. – CommonsWare Mar 13 '17 at 18:12
@CommonsWare i didn't find this question even related to mine. – saurabh gupta Mar 13 '17 at 18:14
Put away try ... catch block and show exception for us. – brut Mar 13 '17 at 18:17
You have requested a permission. It is not working. Most likely, that is because you failed to request runtime permissions in an environment that needs them. This is covered in [my answer to that question](https://stackoverflow.com/a/32636039/115145). – CommonsWare Mar 13 '17 at 18:17
Do you see any exception? – developeralways Mar 13 '17 at 18:28
I am finding a way to add permissions programmatically because i am working on above API LEVEL 23 – saurabh gupta Mar 13 '17 at 18:32
@CommonsWare Thank you brother ! your answer worked like a charm. Thanks. – saurabh gupta Mar 13 '17 at 18:38

Can't delete a file from phone storage in Android

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