No SD card write permissions after Marshmallow update - G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I recently updated my AT&T LG G4 to 6.0 Marshmallow, and noticed that I could no longer save pictures to my SD card. Upon further inspection, I realized that I couldn't write files nor folders to my SD card, through both apps and manually on my computer. However, I could still read the contents of my SD card. When I then went to format my SD card, I found that I was given an error that /storage/aaaa-aaaa (where aaaa-aaaa is my SD card) could not be found.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this?

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no files shown when mounting sd card

Hi,
When I mount my SD card I only have this DiskCacheIndex36931.tmp file and nothing else.
Also interesting when i create or copy new files to my SD card using Andexplorer, then they also appear.
There are plenty of other files on my SD card.
In device all are shown but not from PC.
is there a known issue related to this?

[Q] SD Card issue!

Hey everyone,
I have a stock non-rooted Sprint version Galaxy S3 with Jellybean. I installed a 32 GB SD Card and it worked fine for the longest time. Today I realized that when I take pictures it will not save to the SD Card. The card is recognized by the phone, it reports the correct size, and I can see the contents but I cannot write to the card any longer.
I unmounted the card, uninstalled and reinstalled the card, and restarted the phone, but no matter what I do I can't save anything to it. I downloaded an SD card testing app and it said I didn't have permission to write to the card. Has anyone heard of this issue before? I am going to try to use the Kies Air app to move all of the contents of the card to my PC and reformat it to see if that helps. Thanks to anyone who might know what's going on.
The Dark One
Have you tried already manually adding stuff to the card via transfering files from Internal to ExtSDCard?
Have you set up your camera settings to save picture / recordings to external SD card or
try testing to create new file / folders within the card?

[Q] SD card removed error

I had Kitkat PAC-MAN rom installed and I used to get error randomly that "SD Card removed". TiBu failed to backup at scheduled time because SD Card was not accesible. But at the same time I can access the SD card using File manager.
Now I flashed Stock 4.3 rom and now Spotify and Google Music fail to detect and download Music to SD card. I can still access SD card using file explorer and play files directly.
What size SD card do you have? Depending on the size and if you have your information backed up, performing a chkdsk on the sd card may fix your issue.
I had this problem once before with a 64gb sd card, something was corrupted and check disk fixed it(surprisingly)

Micro SD card problems.

Anyone else experiencing problems with their micro sd cards? I have a 32 Gb class 10 micro sd card installed and it shows that I only have 200 mb of available space on my external card. The card is empty so how is this possible? Any ideas??
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Did ya format it with phone
Most likely an issue with your card not the phone. I definitely haven't had an issues nor have I heard of any
Something similar is happening to my sd card
I am experiencing something similar, i first noticed when trying to copy a zip file to the sd card to install a rom and the zip file didnt show up.
My problem is that i am not able to copy anything to the sd card or delete anything from the sd card. I am however able to copy files from my the sd card to the computer. I have tried formatting it from an android phone,pc,cmd but after the format is done i have the exact same files that were on the sd card. Its strange because after formatiing on my pc it shows the sd card as empty but once i disconnect and re-connect the sd card all the files are somehow back on to the sd card and are not corrputed or anything because i can still play music and view images?
Got a 64Gb card in mine with no problems at all. Shows the same space as it did on my Note 3.
JazzedMontage said:
I am experiencing something similar, i first noticed when trying to copy a zip file to the sd card to install a rom and the zip file didnt show up.
My problem is that i am not able to copy anything to the sd card or delete anything from the sd card. I am however able to copy files from my the sd card to the computer. I have tried formatting it from an android phone,pc,cmd but after the format is done i have the exact same files that were on the sd card. Its strange because after formatiing on my pc it shows the sd card as empty but once i disconnect and re-connect the sd card all the files are somehow back on to the sd card and are not corrputed or anything because i can still play music and view images?
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Had the exact same problem with my son's sd card on another phone about a month ago. After too many hours trying different things, I ended up having to throw it out.
It turns out that it's because of the new Android 4.4 update. Google has decided to do away with ability to give permission to write on our sd cards and it is creating quite the uproar everywhere. For those of you that haven't yet encountered these issues, that's only because you aren't running latest Android OS. They mentioned that there might be a fix in the next version of Android Lollipop. But for now, we are left with only one other alternative and that is to root our devices and allow permissions to write to sd cards.
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Encrypted SD Card, quick Q&A.

I just got a 128GB SD card and I decided that it is a good idea if I encrypt the SD card, since the device is already encrypted. I didn't encrypt my last card, just for the record.
Anyway, I'm familiar with how Android Encryption works, I know the risk, I backup my phone regularly, and I know that putting the SD card DIRECTLY into another device or PC is not an option, anymore. Only my G4 can read/write to the SD card while it's encrypted.
Problem is this, I ASSUMED that so long as the SD card is in the phone and the phone is plugged into my PC, I could make file transfers between the SD card and the PC (the phone would handle the encryption process). No such luck. I have no way to transfer files between SD card and PC, unless I decrypt manually.
Any suggestions?
I just can across this same issue last week and have been hunting for an answer with no luck. Have you found any?
I though i could move files around internally and the OS would handle decrypting the files as they went from the SD card to the internal storage. I was a bad assumption. I want to encrypt the SD Card, but I cant move files onto or off of it.

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