Question

Official facebook App has a bug, when you try to share an image with share intent, the image gets deleted from the sdcard. This is the way you have to pass the image to facebook app using the uri of the image:

File myFile= new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "car.jpg");
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(myFile);
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);

Then, suppose that if i create a copy from the original myFile object, and i pass the uri of the copy to facebook app, then, my original image will not be deleted.

I tried with this code, but it doesn’t work, the original image file is still getting deleted:

    File myFile= new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "car.jpg");
    File auxFile=myFile.getAbsoluteFile();      
    Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(auxFile);

Can someone tell me how to do a exact copy of a file that doesn’t redirect to the original File?

Answer 1

Please check: Android file copy

The file is copied byte by byte so no reference to the old file is maintained.