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Re: How did a copy of several hundred files into a new folder find duplicates?

From Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: How did a copy of several hundred files into a new folder find duplicates?
Date 2025-07-22 23:57 +0200
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Marion, 2025-07-22 18:39:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:42:33 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
> 
> 
>>> If a user mounts the Android file system as a drive letter on Windows,
>>> (which I've done a billion times and which requires nothing more than a
>>> free no-registration no-ads webdav server running on Android), then you can
>>> see on Windows more of the Android file system than you can see on Android.
>>>  <https://i.postimg.cc/6371SxNd/mountandroidonwindows.jpg>
>>>
>>> You can see stuff in the Android root file system for example. 
>>> Like the Android HOSTS file.
>>>
>>> Note: On Windows, ADB can also see the root Android file system.
>>
>> See, maybe - but not *access* it without root permissions.
> 
> Hi Arno,
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "access" because there are (at least) two
> different types of "access", one of which is "read access", which you have.

Correct. However, some folders are not readable using ADB without root
permissions. For example all folders inside /data/data since this is the
protected storage of apps.

And the most important point: you first have to install ADB on your
computer *and* get your device connected, which is not that simple for
many people.

[...]
> Using CxFileExplorer or FTP is a terrible kluge, IMHO, for example.

Why? It doesn't need any extra software besides the app itself. Even FTP
can be used in Windows without any extra tools - it may not show up as
"drive letter" but you can still add the FTP server provided by
CxFileExplorer as network location in Windows and just use it.

> All those "MyPhoneExplorer" style kluges are ridiculously absurd, I feel.
> 
> Compared to the sheer simplicity of simply mounting Android to Windows as a
> drive letter (or to the even simpler use of the Windows file explorer).

What is "simple" in using a command which you have to know first
compared to a menu in the Windows explorer which to add a network
location? How many average Android and Windows users even know what "net
use" means if you don't tell them first?


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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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