How to move/rename file from internal app storage to external storage on Android?

Question

I am downloading files from the internet and saving the streaming data to a temp file in my app\'s internal storage given by getFilesDir().

Once the download is comp

Answer 1

Did some trivial modifications to @barmaley's code

public boolean copyFile(File src, File dst) {
    boolean returnValue = true;

   FileChannel inChannel = null, outChannel = null;

    try {

        inChannel = new FileInputStream(src).getChannel();
        outChannel = new FileOutputStream(dst).getChannel();

   } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {

        Log.d(logtag, "inChannel/outChannel FileNotFoundException");
        fnfe.printStackTrace();
        return false;
   }

   try {
       inChannel.transferTo(0, inChannel.size(), outChannel);

   } catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) {

         Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo IllegalArgumentException");
         iae.printStackTrace();
         returnValue = false;

   } catch (NonReadableChannelException nrce) {

         Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo NonReadableChannelException");
         nrce.printStackTrace();
         returnValue = false;

   } catch (NonWritableChannelException nwce) {

        Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo NonWritableChannelException");
        nwce.printStackTrace();
        returnValue = false;

   } catch (ClosedByInterruptException cie) {

        Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo ClosedByInterruptException");
        cie.printStackTrace();
        returnValue = false;

   } catch (AsynchronousCloseException ace) {

        Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo AsynchronousCloseException");
        ace.printStackTrace();
        returnValue = false;

   } catch (ClosedChannelException cce) {

        Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo ClosedChannelException");
        cce.printStackTrace(); 
        returnValue = false;

    } catch (IOException ioe) {

        Log.d(logtag, "TransferTo IOException");
        ioe.printStackTrace();
        returnValue = false;


    } finally {

         if (inChannel != null)

            try {

               inChannel.close();
           } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
           }

        if (outChannel != null)
            try {
                outChannel.close();
           } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
           }

        }

       return returnValue;
    }

Answer 2

Internal and external memory is two different file systems. Therefore renameTo() fails.

You will have to copy the file and delete the original

Answer 3

To copy files from internal memory to SD card and vice-versa using following piece of code:

public static void copyFile(File src, File dst) throws IOException
{
    FileChannel inChannel = new FileInputStream(src).getChannel();
    FileChannel outChannel = new FileOutputStream(dst).getChannel();
    try
    {
        inChannel.transferTo(0, inChannel.size(), outChannel);
    }
    finally
    {
        if (inChannel != null)
            inChannel.close();
        if (outChannel != null)
            outChannel.close();
    }
}

And - it works...

Answer 4

For Move file best way is Renaming it's path with different path and name example:

File from = new File(Environment.getExternalStorage().getAbsolutePath()+"/kaic1/imagem.jpg");
File to = new File(Environment.getExternalStorage().getAbsolutePath()+"/kaic2/imagem.jpg");
from.renameTo(to);

Answer 5

An alternative to the copying using your own function is to use Apache's library's class "FileUtils" , in the function called copyFile :

FileUtils.copyFile(src, dst, true);

Answer 6

Picture that:

• This is internal path : pathInternal
• And this is external path : pathExternal

Try with this code:

public void moveIn (String pathInternal, String pathExternal) {
    File fInternal = new File (pathInternal);
    File fExternal = new File (pathExternal);
    if (fInternal.exists()) {
        fInternal.renameTo(fExternal);
    }
}