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

From	micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
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?
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Date	2025-07-19 19:34 -0400

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:14:12 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

>
>[]> Yes, I was using the computer to do this. MyPhoneExplorer displays a
>> list of files with the usual view options.  I almost always use Details.
>> And you can sort of any of the fields.  I used Date, so I could start
>> copying where I left off last time.
>
>I take it you _have_ to use MyPhoneExplorer, and can't just use File 
>Manager - i. e. the 'phone doesn't just appear like an external 
>drive/card.[]

I'm 95% sure I have seen the phone in some windows file manager,
probably the one that comes with Windows.  Maybe this ia an example of
old-habits die hard, though it's not much trouble to start the app in
thue phone and connect it in one of the many ways allowed.  The phone
woud have to be on in any case. 

Okay, I'll investigate.  By golly, it's there in File Explorer now, but
only one line. When I click on the > sign, the sign disappears and
nothing else appears.   It's on the same wifi network.  And it's plugged
into a USB port, although I guess that is only charging.  Connecting the
phone by Bluetooth also to the computer doesn't change anything.  So I
can't use File Explorer. 

It doesn't appear at all in my favorite file manager, PowerDesk, and in
the previous computer I'd tried lots of others to find which would be my
favorite. Unless someone writes another, I'm done with looking. 

BTW, I like PowerDesk but it does not display all the files.  I can't
rmemeber if it's 32-bt or 64-bit that it does not display, but the only
files I've ever not found are HOSTS and maybe 3 or 4 others in that same
subdirectory.  So my uneducated brain has cnocluded that most files are
one size smaller, that is 16 bit or 32-bit,   

There is at least one other File managers whose free version is 16 (or
32) bit, and whose paid version is one step up, 32 or 64-bit. 

YOu can still edit HOSTS as they pointed out in the other thread, by
using Notepad or something similar and Open File, or use a file manager
that will display it, and Open With. 

>> A clue that win11 waits until the end is that it asks, Do you want to
>> use the same choice for your next 5 conflicts**. It knows how many there
>> are, so it must have finished or looked ahead.  Win10 would ask, Do you
>> want to use the same choice for all your similar files.
>> 
>> **I said No, but each time I clicked on Keep Both and the Remaining
>> counter went down by one.
>> 
>>> think I've seen it ask this question, then when answered, go back to
>>> further copying). It does offer "do this with all other similar files?"
>>> when it asks you to choose what to do, but I don't know if it knows at
>>> that point how many there are.
>> 
>> I think this is a small improvement in win11.
>Yes, sounds like it. (Could be that it only does 5 [or whatever] at a 
>time, of course.)

Maybe. 

There is also Phone Link, which allows one to make cell phone calls and
texts and receive them from the PC.  That also needs something running
in both the PC and phone,  thought I think the phone part is running
automatically for some reason.   (Also I was on the bluetooth page of
the phone, and connected alreadhy, but the entry for the laptop turned
from white or grey to bright blue when I started Phone Link.)  Phone
Link has "tabs" for Messages, Calls, and Photos.  The Photos "tab" is
way inferior to MyPhoneExplorer because it has only one view afaict.
That is, small photos, 4 to a row, square, with as many rows as one
needs to look at to see all of them.  But even that is not as good
because it's taking time to load the photos, but when in MPE I just
showed details, that loaded almost much much much faster, maybe
instanenously.  Plus it doesn't show dates, or size, or file name or
extension, just the picture.   So I may use Phone Link for calls and
texts but not backing up phone pictures.  And it doesn't even try to
show files other than photos while MyPhoneExplorer will show any file in
internal or external storage. 

>-- 
>J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
>
>Once you've started swinging, chimp-like, through the branches of your 
>family tree, you might easily end up anywhere.
>- Alexander Armstrong, RT 2014/8/23-29

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