I wasn't sure what your topic would be about until I clicked through, but I'm glad I did.

I actually have experienced what has been mentioned. I typically use Astro. What's odd is, it was just Astro that I had issues doing this. I also use Solid Explorer, when connecting wirelessly to my work CPU to transfer files, and that worked fine. The OEM file explorer worked fine as well. And from what you've said, ES works too.

As much as I've enjoyed using Astro, I might just drop it if this can't be accomplished anymore. I move files all the time, from my download folder, so not having the ability anymore will be a deal killer.

 

I didn't know copying was a problem. That's probably due to me already having what I wanted on my card when I moved it from one phone to the other.

 

ES is the owner of the folder, so it can put files there, delete them, delete the folder, etc.

Use another app to create a folder, then create files in it. Now open ES and see if it can put files in that folder or delete the files that were put there by the other app.

Root and the file's (or folder's) owner can always do anything they want to it.

 

Looks like it is ES that figured it out. Hope the other file explorer developers figure it out also.

 

so I install this and then what do I do to get my tom tom working again from my sd card?

 

If it was previously using a folder on the external card, copy that folder to your computer. Then uninstall TT, reinstall it and let it create a folder on the card that it owns. (If you want to put the files from the folder you saved back into the new folder, you might have to chown the files to the new owner.)

 

I got a copy of sygic working so will use that instead but cheers