[Zubersoft]

The system file browser does not allow direct access to the selected file (because Google's file picker will let you pick from any external application). What is provided to MobileSheets is just a stream of data. I have to save that stream of data somewhere (I'm not given a file path, as that wouldn't make sense if the user selected a file in the cloud, for example). So that's why the file is treated as if it's "external" to the device, because from the perspective of MobileSheets, it is. Import->Local File gives direct access to the selected file, including the file path, so that's why nothing is copied or moved when using that approach.

@Mike: is a combination of MobileSheets' "Sync Library" and "Let MobileSheets manage my files"=OFF intended to work? For fziegler the folder to sync with would be on his NAS. I would like to synchronize to a folder on my GoogleDrive - preferably using two way sync so that editing of ChordPro files is possible both in GoogleDrive and directly in MobileSheets

itsme - I don't think the Sync Library feature would be a good choice for users that manage their own files because MobileSheets will have to copy files to the storage location if they don't already exist in the library.

Mike