Looks like this is by design in Android. Here is the solution I've ported
from java from a stackoverflow thread.
http://blog.rthand.com/post/2012/06/06/Writing-to-SD-card-and-notifying-outside-world-of-changes.aspx
http://blog.rthand.com/post/2012/06/06/Writing-to-SD-card-and-notifying-outside-worl
Hi guys,
I am trying to write text files to a shared location in the way I could open
them from within Windows Explorer (which rules out private folder).
Here is the code
var file = GetExternalFilesDir(null);
string fileName = "Test.txt";
string filePath = Path.Combine(file.Path, fileName);
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