Downloaded Files Location

[Dave Fitzpatrick]

On my HTC Incredible, when a file attached to an email is downloaded it is placed in a location

mnt/sdcard/Downloads/

when a file is downloaded from Facebook, it is placed in a location

mnt/sdcard/download/

Is this consistent with other devices? Also, where would these downloaded files be placed in a device with no sdcard?

- - Dave

 

[margret]

On my Samsung GS2, that location is the internal memory and not the sdcard. My internal location is:

/mnt/sdcard/download

the external is:

/mnt/external_sd

 

[Dave Fitzpatrick]

Margaret, I'm confused. When you say that the internal location is

mnt/sdcard/download

I thought that the sdcard by its very nature is external.

In either case, I'm trying to write an app that deals with user dowloads from multiple sources that I need to automatically locate rather than have a user manually search for them. I also have no way of knowing when they may do the download.

Any idea how I can locate them? They would all have the same extension, but I don't want to search the entire internal and/or external memory everytime my app resumes just to see if a new download had occurred.