Can't read rss feeds

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App version: 2.1.4 (62b6ec121) from F-droid.

Android version: 11

Device model: Samsung A40

Expected behaviour:
Can update and add RSS feeds

Current behaviour:
Can’t update or add RSS feeds. The download fails and reports ‘IO Error: Operation not permitted’

First occurred:
27th of March. I allowed some Android updates on this day (this may be when I moved from Android 10 to 11, but I’m not sure).

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Update phone last week
  2. Watch download errors accumulate by themselves as my subscriptions are checked.
  3. Also can’t add any new feeds - same error

Environment:
Pretty standard, I assume.

None of the 20-something feeds I use are working. I can still download podcasts from the existing feed data in my phone, but I cannot update any feeds.

As a test I tried reading one of my feeds using Escapepod and there were no problems at all. So, whether it’s a bug or not, the problem seems to be confined to Antennapod. I have no desire to switch away from AP if I don’t have to.

I’m not aware of any ad-blockers or VPN on my phone. Everything else is working fine.

Any help appreciated.

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Could it be that your storage is full? Another thing to test would be to change AntennaPod’s data folder.

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Well, my storage was not full - 3 gig out of 64 free, but if there are quotas of some kind I may have hit a boundary. Downloading podcasts still worked, so maybe that’s not it.

Switching storage to the less-full sd-card has worked though. Thank you very much! Hopefully the original location will work again after I’ve tidied up a bit.

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