# Backup fails on Android: Permission denied for \`.android\_secure/\`

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/backup-fails-on-android-permission-denied-for-android-secure/467>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/backup-fails-on-android-permission-denied-for-android-secure/467 "2021-05-26T16:02:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![nickersonm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/nickersonm/32/162_2.png) [@nickersonm](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/nickersonm)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/backup-fails-on-android-permission-denied-for-android-secure/467/2 "2021-06-07T15:41:43Z")

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I [encountered a similar problem](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-unable-to-read-fs/469) with a different filesystem: my solution was to grant read access to the directory for the user that `kopia` is running as. Kopia appears to check directories before ignoring them, and in some cases hard-fails when it cannot `stat` the directory, even if `ignoreDirectoryErrors` is `true`.

- nickersonm

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