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This help article is legacy and only serves as a bridge to avoid breaking links. For information on the mobile app, please see [[Sync your notes across devices]].
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## Sync
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For information on syncing on the Android app, please see [[Sync your notes across devices#Sync notes on Android|Sync notes on Android]].
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## Storage Permission
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When starting Obsidian, you may notice that it prompts for permission to access your device's documents and media.
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In an ideal world, we'd prefer to only ask for access rights to the vault folders you choose. However, Android's privacy-friendly file permission API (also known as "scoped storage") has a few restrictions that makes it impossible for Obsidian to function properly.
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The two biggest roadblocks are:
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- Scoped storage performs many extra permission checks for every single file access, causing significant performance degradation when opening and using Obsidian.
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- Scoped storage does not provide a way to watch for external changes, which is critical when using Obsidian with a third-party synchronization tool.
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Google specifically gives instructions for developers of this kind of apps a special permission. Obsidian belongs to two categories in the list of exceptions: "document management apps", and "on-device file search". [Read more about it here.](https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/manage-all-files) |