Unable to delete Word file in an Android Device

Question

I am trying to delete a file but Word (android GalaxyNote5) is saying I do not have permission to delete 

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Answer 1

You might want to read again what I was talking about - I was not asking, but providing a solution and pointing out who is to blame for this.

Answer 2

Hi  I agree Android has its share of security issues. Its made by Google after all a company which, despite having an abundance of awesome technology and some of the brightest minds on the planet as employees, inexplicably chose the sleazy path of selling out customers for add revenue as its its primary business model. Android itself is primarily a data mining tool for Google, that it can act as an OS is quite secondary. Anyway, you can delete any file you wish from Androids file system. You just need a proper file manager app. Try downloading Cx File Explorer from the Google play store. Its soild, has no adds and gives full access to Androids file system and any network fs such as cloud drives you have attached. It will not delete bloatware such as software made by samsung, however, for that you need to connect your phone to a PC via usb, install Android Studio (free dev ide for Android) then use the command line tool adb (android debug bridge) to delete anything you wish. Remind your device who the human is ... cheers.

Answer 3

You are not right here.

Android does not allow direct access to a lot of locations without root rights.

Cx File Explorer (or any other) will not help. And I have no idea why you even mentioned bloatware, but oh well.

adb tools... Right... let regular users use this. And again without elevated rights, it will not gain access to many locations.

Remind your human to read some manuals.

Answer 4

You are not right here.

Android does not allow direct access to a lot of locations without root rights.

Cx File Explorer (or any other) will not help. And I have no idea why you even mentioned bloatware, but oh well.

adb tools... Right... let regular users use this. And again without elevated rights, it will not gain access to many locations.

Remind your human to read some manuals.

I've read the documention for android studio at least well enough to know that adb does not require root access in order to remove files from a phone as I describe above. That includes files flagged as system. I invite you to take your own advice re: manuals.

I mention removal of bloatware in this case because the op indicated that some things could not be removed. Bloatware is often considered by users to be unremovable without root access. The point of my post being that with the right tools such things are possible even the removal of bloatware. Its what humans call giving you an example. Also, why can't any typical user run adb and type one command and hit enter. Users are not idiots or children. You arent the first person to think of them as such, unfortunately too many developers fail to give users the benefit of the doubt. The condescending attitude comes across in the ui of their bloatware typically. Its not rocket science. See now you do understand.

Answer 5

Can you, please, provide me with a way to access (and what is more needed, delete) files located in /data/user folder (that is the data folder for applications) without root access via adb? As I definitely lack the knowledge in this one, and as far as I know it is only possible to either access it with root privileges or to backup it, but you will not be able to remove any data from device. I would really appreciate you telling me the way to di it.

And sorry, but 99.9% of users ARE "children". As long as they don't have a big button saying what to do, they will fail, not saying to let them use a command line utility. The best example is Word and Latex. Guess which one has more functionality to it and which one is more popular?