Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer

From	Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer
Date	2024-08-10 09:28 +0200
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Peter, 2024-08-08 01:18:

> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>>> Already on Win10 the whole accessible Android file system becomes a Windows
>>> drive letter, which means all your Windows scripts & File Explorers work.
>>>
>>
>> How on earth do you make that happen. I have Widows 10, and when I 
>> plug in a USB cable between my phone and my desktop PC, I get the 
>> usual "setting up device" notification on my PC, then a prompt on the 
>> phone to allow the PC to access phone data. "Galaxy A54 5G" is in my 
>> list of drives in File Explorer, preceding C:, but if it was assigned 
>> a letter that letter sure isn't showing.
>>
>> I even tried dir: for A:] through Z:\, but every letter except my 
>> actual drives showed an error message to the effect that the system 
>> could not find the file.
> 
> Once you set it up, your Android phone is a permanent drive letter on
> Windows, as long as both your Windows PC & Android are on your Wi-Fi.
>  https://viterbiit.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/How-to-Use-Net-Use-Command.pdf
> 
> All you do is set up a webdav server on Android such as this one.
>  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver

This is not needed for MTP which is supported by most Android devices
out of the box.


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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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    Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Peter <confused@nospam.net> - 2024-07-28 14:29 +0100
      Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-08-07 13:23 +0200
        Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Peter <confused@nospam.net> - 2024-08-07 17:21 +0100
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            Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Peter <confused@nospam.net> - 2024-08-08 00:18 +0100
              Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-08-08 08:00 -0700
                Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Peter <confused@nospam.net> - 2024-08-08 21:34 +0100
                Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-08-09 12:54 -0700
                Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Peter <confused@nospam.net> - 2024-08-10 04:17 +0100
              Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-08-10 09:28 +0200
            Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-08-10 09:27 +0200
          Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-08-10 09:25 +0200
  Re: Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-08-05 19:53 +0200
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