Cannot import from previous export

[steveman1123]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Under subscriptions tab, select subscritions item.
2. Select "import from" "previous export"
3. select the exported json file
4. subscritions are populated

Expected behavior:
Subscriptions are populated from the json export

Actual behavior:
No files are able to be selected in the file browser, all files are greyed out.

Additional steps taken:
Storage permission is allowed, import also works in newpipe legacy v0.20.8

Android version:
8.0.0

Newpipe version:
0.21.15/0.21.16

Mod Edit: See also relatively similar issues #6682 #6783

[steveman1123]

No template was generated when writing this issue (could be due to using mobile site), apologies for any inconvience. Please comment for any additional info as this is my first issue with newpipe

[triallax]

No template was generated when writing this issue (could be due to using mobile site), apologies for any inconvience.

No worries, this is already better than a lot of issues out there.

I can't reproduce this. What file manager are you using? Can you try https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files and see if it works?

(Added template-ignored by mistake, ignore that)

[steveman1123]

I don't seem to have a choice, it just automatically opens the default android file browser (it looks like the legacy one opens its own browser)

[triallax]

I don't seem to have a choice, it just automatically opens the default android file browser

Did you try installing it yet or not?

it looks like the legacy one opens its own browser

The current NewPipe still has that one, but it's used only when SAF is off. I think on Android 8 we enabled it by default at some point. I think you can disable SAF by toggling "Settings > Download > Use system folder picker (SAF)" off, but I'm not sure since I'm using Android 11, where SAF is mandatory.

[steveman1123]

That did it! Updated perfectly after disabling SAF

[steveman1123]

Issue is resolved after disabling SAF

[triallax]

That's a workaround, not a fix, so I'll re-open this.