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I use FL Studio Mobile to make music on my phone, and I recently switched to a Pixel 8 and need to transfer all of my FL Studio files to my new phone. It's all in the app's data folder, due to how apps work, and I was able to back up all my files, but I can't get them into the app data folder on my new phone.

I've tried using the system file manager, but it can't write or modify folders that were created by FLM. If I copy "My Samples" for instance, instead of merging with the existing "My Samples" folder, it just creates "My Samples(1)". Can't move it or delete the original.

I've also tried adb, but it doesn't have permission to push anything to the app data folder.

Is there no workaround? I know in Android 13 there were a few tricks you could use, but now none of those work. I also need to be able to do this in order to back up and restore my saves for games like Stardew Valley and Terraria, which are also stored in the app data folders.

I heard there's a trick to using the tmp folder, and running the push command as the app itself, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right, or I also don't have permission to use run-as. Can't root because I financed the phone and I can't unlock the bootloader until I'm no longer in T-Mobile's pocket.

To clarify, I'm talking about the main app data folder, as in the folder called "data" where every app is stored at /sdcard/android/data. In this case, the app data folder is called com.imageline.FLM

For ADB, I've tried the push command, and I've tried using run-as to use the app's permissions to move the files from the tmp folder. Nothing works, because I don't have permission to write to the Android/data folder. There used to be workarounds on Android 13, that apps like Total Commander used, but those have all been fixed. Even the system file picker itself can't write any files to the com.imageline.FLM folder.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice, even if it's "you're out of luck".

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  • I have never tried this myself, but considering this seems to be a one time thing -- why not use a PC? By my understanding you need quite a few workarounds to get this working from within the phone itself (especially on Android 14), but you can copy to and from the data folder if you simply connect it to a PC. So just copy your files to a PC, connect your new phone and copy them back into the desired folder.
    – SSS
    Commented Mar 17 at 10:57
  • @SSS Jesse wrote "I've also tried adb" which I think means he already tries to do it via PC.
    – Robert
    Commented Mar 17 at 11:16
  • Android 14 doesn't even allow ADB on a PC to access the Android/data/ folder. You can pull files from it but you can't write to it.
    – Jesse Clark
    Commented Mar 17 at 19:08
  • D:\>adb push "file.txt" "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/pl.solidexplorer2" file.txt: 1 file pushed, 0 skipped. 72.4 MB/s (6878683 bytes in 0.091s)
    – SSS
    Commented Mar 23 at 7:59
  • I just tried that adb push on my Pixel 7 with Android 14 and worked without issues. And I could see it in that folder which I can access inside Solid Explorer. Btw, when I was talking about PC I meant simply copying it using Windows Explorer (or whatever OS you have) and not ADB specifically.
    – SSS
    Commented Mar 23 at 8:01

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I copy-pasted from a flash drive to the Android 14 /data folder using Ubuntu 20.04 and it appears to be working fine, the 2.3GB Navmii map files have just transferred.

What I did notice in the Android 14 device is that when I browsed the Android/data folder on the phone, I could not see any app folders within the data folder, but using Ubuntu on PC shows the folders as normal.

However, after copying the files, Navmii would not start up. When I browsed the folder using the File Manager app, the 2.3GB folder I copied is now 0 bytes. Android 14 appears to have removed the folder I pasted from the flash drive.

When I go into the new 0kb file that Android has created in its place, I get a screen that says 'Loading Error folder does not exist anymore.'

In my case, it is possible to copy-paste files from a flash drive on Ubuntu to the Android/data folder, but your mileage may vary if the files persist after copying.

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I had a similar issue with my Raspberry Pi 5 AOSP 14 where a map program downloaded and wrote the (Android/Data) files to a folder name using capital letters but tried to read the same files from a folder using small letters in the folder name.

File Commander (with root) let me delete the initial small letter named folder and change the downloaded (capital) file folder to small letters. Alternatively, I could also copy the files from the capital letter folder to the small letter folder.

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Apparently, I'm able to copy files from my PC desktop to Android/data/data/{app sub folders} on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra (Android 14) using a USB cable and with MTP.

I'm not sure if this would work generally.

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