Unable to open Passwdsafe as writeable
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My Passwdsafe app on my chrome book is no longer writable. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled from the Play Store but still not writeable. Did I miss a setting or permission?
Where is the file stored? I just updated on my Chromebook, and the file opened fine. I tried a local file as well as one stored on Google Drive.
The file is stored locally, but I may be being fooled by the app looking for one on Google Drive. I'll check. Thanks for the lead.
There certainly is something amiss with Chromebooks currently. Some files I can make writable but they get errors on save, and some won't allow write permissions and thus can't toggle the switch. I'll have to find some time to debug, but it's not easy on that platform.
There appears to be a couple of bugs in ChromeOS which could be causing the issue. Android is forcing developers to use their storage framework, and the provider of the files on ChromeOS is not supporting writes currently.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1106570
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=946346
There is mention of an advanced flag that can restore a previous ChromeOS file chooser which does allow for write support at https://support.google.com/chromebook/thread/921871?hl=en. You can browse to 'chrome://flags' and disable the #arc-file-picker-experiment option.