New permission required for MM: WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE for SD card

after upgrading to a SGS7 with Marshmallow (Android 6.0.1), I stumbled across a problem of Syncthing not preceeding with its work (given, some sync jobs existed and were partly synced to some SD card folder already. Looking into the web interface revealed, that all missing items suffered from permission problems.

Rooting option wasn’t the real McCoy either, since it behaved strangely (don’t remember details, sorry). Searching the net up and down finally stumbled me across some thread, that work around that issue by adding

    <item name="android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE" granted="true" flags="0" />

in the perms section of the affected package in /data/system/packages.xml. Given, that this has to be repeated after any update, I kindly request this permission for the official release.

Version Information

App Version: 0.14.3
Syncthing Version: 0.8.1
Android Version: Android 6.0.1

[frispete]

@Nutomic I’ve brought it here in the hope for wider audience…

[Nutomic]

I added the permission for the next release. Please let us know if it works 😉