Operating system
Android
Joplin version
3.0.8
What issue do you have?
"Export All Notes as JEX" does not provide an option to save that file to a folder.
Only to add to apps such as email, WhatsApp, Drive, etc.
I saved a JEX to Signal. Wanting to move it to PC I tried to save it from Signal to the phone.
Signal warned that then all apps that can access file folders on Android will have access to it. Good point!
This seems like a relevant opportunity and community to raise that background concern.
Privacy is often summarily dismissed by people who have no regard for privacy (of their friends/clients information)
and trust tech companies/ apps and those who work for or target them.
When I select that an Android app can access [what files I want it to] am I right in thinking that generally means I've allowed it to access all files on the device?
If so how on Earth does one protect against the type of desperate spider crawling which seem to be the core business model of big tech and bad actors alike?
I'm constantly fighting apps to prevent uploading all my files to their 'cloud' servers aside from providing access for many apps to access whatever they choose on the device.
Simply trusting them not to abuse the rights one has to provide them doesn't answer the technical question of functional access given likely motives and industrial data mining.
I do trust some apps = developers.
Others I trust to compromise privacy and security at every turn. For my convenience of course.
I get the impression most people don't give it consideration.
I'd at least like to know technically what I'm functionally allowing, whether I trust some or any of the apps = companies = people who manage them.
I expect the answer is the Android ecosystem is itself an open door to the biggest violators of privacy and any app given access to the file system can invisibly access whatever they choose, so limiting one's patronage to preferred suppliers is up to each of us but that might be quite inaccurate or incomplete.
