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title: "Termux Internal External Storage"
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Internal and external storage

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There are three main types of storage in Termux:

1. App-private storage: Files put in $HOME, available from inside Termux (or when explictly picked, when e.g. attaching a file to a mail).
2. Shared internal storage: Storage in the device available to all apps. On Android 6.0 this requires the user to explicitly grant access to for Termux to access it.
3. External storage: Storage on external SD cards. Each app has a private folder on the external SD card, and interchange between them needs to use a special API not yet available in Termux. SAF-based access is not possible as shell is executed outside of Android framework.

Access shared and external storage

To access shared and external storage you need to run termux-setup-storage. You will then be prompted to "Allow Termux access photos, media and files on your device", which you should allow.

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Executing termux-setup-storage ensures:

1. That permission to shared storage is granted to Termux when running on Android 6.0 or later.
2. That an app-private folder on external storage is created (if external storage exists).
3. That a folder $HOME/storage is created.

If you have Termux:API application and termux-api package installed, you can use Android file picker to get any file from either shared or external storage by using utility termux-storage-get. Example:

termux-storage-get filename.txt

File that has been chosen through file picker will be saved as "filename.txt".

~/storage

The contents of the created $HOME/storage folder are symlinks to different storage folders:

• The root of the shared storage between all apps.

~/storage/shared

• The standard directory for downloads from e.g. the system browser.

~/storage/downloads

• The traditional location for pictures and videos when mounting the device as a camera.

~/storage/dcim

• Standard directory in which to place pictures that are available to the user.

~/storage/pictures

• Standard directory in which to place any audio files that should be in the regular list of music for the user.

~/storage/music

• Standard directory in which to place movies that are available to the user.

~/storage/movies

• Symlink to a Termux-private folder on external storage (only if external storage is available).

~/storage/external-1