I push a csv file to sdcard on my emulator now emulator is telling me i don't have permission does anyone know how to fix this.

Just to answer my owner question i used the class from here its easy to use http://www.csvreader.com/java_csv_samples.php

Do you mean that you don't have permission to read the file?

If so have you added the permission to your manifest file?

I think the one for sd card access is:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

I only used csvreader so i didn't need permission