Since Android 11 Google has been infested with Apple's craziness about restricting user's ownership of their own devices. And it got worse release after release.
Total Commander and x-plore found loopholes to a certain extent - up to Android 12 (incl.).
Both fail with Android 13, though (at least I could not make them access the App private folders under /Android/data).
HOWEVER, since latest release Menion managed to place Locus root under /Android/media!
That has the benefit that apps like TC or x-plore can read and write from/to it - without AfA privileges.
And Locus now offers the convenient option to relocate the existing content from /Android/data to /Android/media.
BUT: a de-install may still remove also this folder (I have not tested the "keep data" option when de-installing, though. That might help - or not.
Total Commander and x-plore found loopholes to a certain extent - up to Android 12 (incl.).
Both fail with Android 13, though (at least I could not make them access the App private folders under /Android/data).
HOWEVER, since latest release Menion managed to place Locus root under /Android/media!
That has the benefit that apps like TC or x-plore can read and write from/to it - without AfA privileges.
And Locus now offers the convenient option to relocate the existing content from /Android/data to /Android/media.
BUT: a de-install may still remove also this folder (I have not tested the "keep data" option when de-installing, though. That might help - or not.