Code doesn't work... trying to read a text file

[Taifun]

@xchangerx

I made the changes you asked

Unfortunately not…
You forgot

@Taifun

reading should be in another event, for example a button click event

and
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@Taifun

for reading non media files, which not have been created by your own app, you need SAF… and you only can read from shared storage, i e. /Download or /Documents,

Where are you using SAF?
And remember, you can’t read text files from /Music, you only can read from /Download or /Documents

SAF: App Inventor implementation of Storage Access Framework

1.Introduction Description: Basically AI2 wrapper of Storage Access Framework. Using this extension, you can get read and/or write access to a single document or tree document (and all of its children recursively). Latest Version: 1.3 Released: 2021-09-16T18:30:00Z (UTC) Last Updated: 2023-11-15T18:30:00Z (UTC) 2.Blocks [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] 3.Documentation Events ErrorOccurred Event indicating error/exce…

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