I’ve used Krita on pc’s for years before and recently decided to get a Samsung Tab 10FE to draw on the go.
My Krita is fully updated and my Samsung 10FE software is fully updated and it is: UI 8.0, Android 16, Current version X520XXU4BYJ2/ X520OXM4BYJ2 /
So far pretty much every file I tried to work on can be saved and reopened once or twice but eventually gives me a “cannot find root” message. From what I researched this can be caused by Krita not being able to properly access files.
When I tried to give the app permission to access files apparently Krita does not need any file permissions so I couldn’t do it to prevent it happening again. This seems very odd as Krita core functions like saving files, opening, recording and extracting needs to access file folders to do so?
I tried to recover the lost files by recovering it into a zip and restoring it. This allowed me to recover a merged image (from the zip) but not the .kra file and layers.
As every file, new or old, keeps corrupting like this I can’t do much progress on anything.
I got around this by creating a new directory in Internal storage called Documents. Then I made subfolders (like Krita, HiPaint, Sketchbook, etc.) and I make sure Krita always stores .kra files and png and jpg files in my Krita folder and not in any other area.
Thank you for the reply! So far I’ve been able to use the same files over a course of few days so I think it’s fixed.
At first (before I made the post) I tried bunch of things to see what would work as it was my first time using the app version. I tried a shared file from google drive as well as saving it in internal tablet storage. When I tried to make a folder in the folder tabs (docs, pictures music ect) that corrupted as well.
(after the reply’s) Making a krita folder in document folder works so far!
Can this same folder be used for recording the time lapses since it creates a folder of the images or will it cause trouble with the files?
I haven’t had any file problems since I created and faithfully used the new folder I created.
Note that Krita, every now and then, still wanted to save new files in a bad location, so be sure to check the entire file path each time you save something new or when you designate the folder to receive the snapshots from the recorder.
