In message <s85mp3$bra$1@dont-email.me>, at 13:04:35 on Thu, 20 May
2021, Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> remarked:
>Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>> In message <s7rehm$kii$2@dont-email.me>, at 15:42:46 on Sun, 16 May
>> 2021, Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> remarked:
>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> In message <s7nv9m$34o$1@dont-email.me>, at 08:04:06 on Sat, 15 May
>>>> 2021, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:
>>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> In message <9glt9glrefvj08vsdogq4cunl7cue2n5lb@4ax.com>, at 20:57:30 on
>>>>>> Fri, 14 May 2021, Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk>
>>>>>> remarked:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 14 May 2021 18:28:53 +0200, Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He reads the emails on neither of these two accounts except when he
>>>>>>>> expects a response, at most once a month. Communication runs via
>>>>>>>> dischord or whatsapp.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, but if he's just bought an e-ticket with email delivery he'll be
>>>>>>> expecting an email. So he'll read it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And not just e-tickets, almost every large organisation they deal with
>>>>>> will send only emails, and be disinclined to dabble in the IM-du-jour to
>>>>>> address their client base (either individually or en-masse).
>>>>>
>>>>> Or you just get an immediate download link on the app/website you
>>>>>are using
>>>>> to perform the purchase.
>>>>
>>>> But where are you downloading it *to* (and what format is it in), and
>>>> how easy is it to find/display when you come to want to use the ticket?
>>>
>>> In almost any case I’ve come across files are downloaded to the
>>> system-nominated downloads folder, assuming you’ve not opted just to
>>> display it in the app or on the web page, and can then be located with the
>>> system-provided file browser. That applies on both iOS and Android as well
>>> as desktop OSs.
>>
>> I'm not sure my phone came with any browser, but Chrome would be the
>> obvious candidate. Its 'downloads' folder is empty. As is the one in
>> Opera, which I know I installed as an after-market thing.
>>
>> And Opera turns out to be the 'default browser', I just checked.
>>
>> One of the things about Android is it doesn't seem to come with a
>> "file browser" (by which I assume you mean something like Windows
>> File Explorer).
>>
>> I have a thing called Cx File Explorer, and that does have the ticket
>> pdfs from the other day. Hurrah. But there seems to be a bug in Adobe
>> Acrobat, when launched from that, because it chops off the top 20% of
>> the QR code.
>
>Odd. I’ve had three Android phones - HTC, Sony and Fairphone - and AFAIR
>they’ve all come with a file browser. The current one is just called File.

I had a Fairphone, but was mis-sold. Turned out the NFC option was just
an aspiration, and they never built that module. For years now, NFC has
been a "must have" for me.

Anyway, just looked at a Samsung, and that has a "my files", so perhaps
it depends a lot on what 'extras' the manufacturer bungs in.

>> The pdf filenames are a bit short - with just the date, to tell the
>> difference between them. I wonder if that's the date they were bought,
>> or the date of travel?
>
>Surely you can divine that from the actual dates, unless you bought all the
>tickets on the day of travel.

One on my phone is simply 13May21.pdf - what can I usefully deduce from
that?
--
Roland Perry