Permission to operate... must perform the certain steps to grant SD card access rights.

[mustang7757]

No. I can go to my Documents folder and choose an item to view it but when I go to delete it it says "You must grant permission...." and when I tap OK it gives me that darn instructional page again.

It said same to me I just kept granting couple of times then let me in

 

[Trismos]

It said same to me I just kept granting couple of times then let me in

mmm. No, mine is very consistently doing the same exact thing, giving me the same vague instructions I don't know how to follow.

 

[mustang7757]

mmm. No, mine is very consistently doing the same exact thing, giving me the same vague instructions I don't know how to follow.

I went in Asus file to my sd card

 

[Trismos]

I went in Asus file to my sd card

Well that's the kicker - where do you find this ASUS file? If I go to Settings and search for ASUS there's nothing there. I have a file page much like you show there but where to go from there?

 

[mustang7757]

Well that's the kicker - where do you find this ASUS file? If I go to Settings and search for ASUS there's nothing there. I have a file page much like you show there but where to go from there?View attachment 298309

I hit the 3 dots in corner grant access to sd card , dit it couple times then took me to blank page I hit 3 bars on left of it show's my sd card tap on it

 

[Trismos]

I hit the 3 dots in corner grant access to sd card , dit it couple times then took me to blank page I hit 3 bars on left of it show's my sd card tap on it

The three dots don't give me that option - no matter how many times I try...

 

[mustang7757]

The three dots don't give me that option - no matter how many times I try...View attachment 298313

How about the 3 bars to left?

 

[Trismos]

How about the 3 bars to left?

No sir - I get this: Tapping the MicroSD just takes me back to the same page with the three lines.

 

[mustang7757]

No sir - I get this: View attachment 298314 Tapping the MicroSD just takes me back to the same page with the three lines.

Take your card out and reinstall it see what happens

 

[Gayle Lynn]

Try with ASUS file manager uninstalled.
Why do you need it? Stock app is fine.
If you have SanDisk SD card maybe you want their utility also.

I used ASUS a long long time ago. The other file managers but haven’t for some time. Astro file mgr pro, Solid explorer pro, ES also.

SD Maid Pro gives full access. But then what’s wrong with Samsung’s My Files app?

 

[chanchan05]

I just have to ask why bother with a clearly problematic app when there's My Files app in there that does everything you want?

 

[mustang7757]

I just have to ask why bother with a clearly problematic app when there's My Files app in there that does everything you want?

Good question..

 

[paddyb2]

I'm getting this as well. There is no "Show SD Card" in the menu, just "Permission to Use SD Card" which just brings up the tutorial every time. Frustrating! I've tried over and over again, with the same result every time. I can see and open files on the SD card, but can't move, copy or delete them. Any ideas?

 

[Joe Volpe]

Same problem! Was it ever solved?

 

[NanCreates]

Same problem! Was it ever solved?

I'm having the same issue as well. I can't figure out what page that is that says "recent", but am getting same nonsense vague tutorial when hit 3 dots above right screen as above.

 

[Nice T]

I'm having the same issue as well. I can't figure out what page that is that says "recent", but am getting same nonsense vague tutorial when hit 3 dots above right screen as above.

Okay I found a solution to this unbelievably stupid glitch of not being able to grant access to SD card ....simply download the "Samsung My Files" app from the google play store and you can move files from any external usb drive to your micro sd card or internal storage without needing some magical access granted permission that may or may not actually exist on these new phones

 

[mellandroid]

I have had a similar problem. While using a podcast I disabled the storage permission expecting an error from the podcast application when it was not able to save data. The application continued to save data. The difference between your issue is this was local storage. Later it stopped saving data and when I turned storage permission on it continued to work.

 

[Jodie Cuckoo]

I'm having the same problem. But I don't have an SD card in my phone. I'm trying to backup photos and videos to a Samsung Portable SSD. Still, it wants me to grant permission to the SD. I'm using the Samsung My Files app.

 

[cwy]

Had to dig up this thread again because it was relevant to me and I hope to bring some closure to the topics in this thread that haven't been resolved:

1. Many third-party file manager apps can't directly write to the phone's SD card. Only Samsung's built-in File Manager is guaranteed to do that. Third-party apps used to be able to do it, but an Android OS update long ago has removed that capability, likely due to security. You can google "android file manager can't copy to sd card" and still see tons of people today asking why they can't write to SD. Sadly, most of the answers don't really say exactly why. My answer above is the right one, so please spread the word . Here is a developer of a file manager app who also had trouble gaining access to SD card.

2. As to why people just don't use Samsung's built-in File Manager app, that's because it doesn't have some features people need, such as wireless file transfer to a PC. I use an app called ASUSTek File Manager, which has been discontinued, but is still in my library and still works (screenshot). It allows a PC to access the phone with a web interface via an http:// address. Some apps use an ftp:// address instead. These apps, again, can't write to an SD card, but have read/write access to the phone's internal storage and can read from an SD card. To write to an SD card, you have to first send the file to the phone's internal storage, use use Samsung's built-in File Manager to copy or move it to the SD card. That is inconvenient, of course, if you do it a lot. That's why nowadays, with phones that have 128GB to 512GB internal storage, my SD card is used much less and is mainly for storing things I don't often use.

3. Minor point here. I once used the same file manager app the OP used and saw the same confusing instructions on how to give permission to access the SD. The app I screenshotted above also had this same confusing screen. These apps were made when such an action was still possible for third-party apps. As I said in (1) above, this is no longer possible.