Android 3.30.8 auto-upload custom folder

[schdief06]

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Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Settings -> Automatic upload
2. Create a new custom upload folder
3. Create a local file in the specified folder

Expected behaviour

Upload this file to nextcloud

Actual behaviour

file is not uploaded

Android version

13

Device brand and model

Google Pixel 4a

Stock or custom OS?

Stock

Nextcloud android app version

3.30.8

Nextcloud server version

29.0.7

Using a reverse proxy?

Yes

Android logs

No response

Server error logs

Additional information

I know there are a lot of different threads about auto-upload in the Android client, especially 3.30.8 which broke a lot of stuff. But I didn’t find anything specific to my problem:

In December 2024 all my auto-upload stopped working, as did for probably everybody. I revoked all permissions from the app and granted them again. Now all media (fotos, videos, screenshots) are uploaded again.
But I also use one custom folder to upload my signal backups to nextcloud and I just can’t get this one working with this version. It is located directly in the internal storage (/storage/emulated/0/SignalBackups) and the nextcloud app just seems to see no files in this folder. I guess this is a permission problem somehow too?

What I tried:

• As I already said: I revoked all permissions and granted them again
• Under Andoid system settings → accounts → my nc account: I enabled file synchonization
• I can’t find nextcloud in Android system settings → apps → special app-access → access all files (some posts recommended to enable this for nextcloud, but it seems the app does not request this permission)
• I deleted the app completly and reinstalled everything from Play Store

[Witmann]

Hello, I have the same issue, in fact, if you check the app permissions in Android settings, you will see that Nextcloud app has only read/write permissions on "Media":

Instead of having the read/write permissions set on "all files" like for this example app:

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I'm not an Android expert but I guess, the Nexcloud app should ask the user if he wants the app to be able to have R/W access on "all files" and not only on "media" files.

Edit: I tried to install the apk from here: #14566 (found from this issue: #14520) the R/W rights seems right but same behavior, no access on files out of "media".