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Re: The perversity of Samsung

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On 2024-09-19 00:05, Stan Brown wrote:
> 
> I needed to upload a picture from my Samsung A54 5G phone to my
> windows 10 PC. (It's for a passport, so I couldn't just email it to
> myself because the phone compressed it from 4 MB down to 200 KB; the
> State Department wants full resolution.)
> 
> Connected phone to PC by USB cable, picked "Transferring files" in
> the phone's popup. In Windows File Explorer, opened Galaxy A54 5G »
> Internal Storage » DCIM » Camera. No sign of my picture. Switched to
> View » Details so that I could sort newest to oldest, since this
> picture is the one I took most recently. Nothing there more recent
> than last fall, when I switched from a Moto e5+ phone. Hmm. Picture
> must be somewhere on the Samsung, but where?
> 
> Opened Gallery on the phone and the picture was right there. Tapped
> on the i-in-a-circle, and the phone showed the location as /Internal
> Storage/DCIM/Camera. But that's the folder I have open in File
> Explorer, and the pic isn't there! Maybe the picture is a hidden
> file, and I need to enable viewing hidden files? Clicked View in File
> Explorer, and Hidden Items was already checked.
> 
> Something whispered to me to turn off viewing of Hidden Items. As
> soon as I did that, File Explorer showed the pictures I had taken
> with the Samsung phone. I clicked the photo I wanted and dragged it
> to my desktop/.
> 
> That's right, the picture files are invisible when View » Hidden
> Items is checked, and visible when View Hidden Items is blank (not
> checked). Oy vey!

This has never been my experience with any Samsung or Android phone. 
I have never had problems with hidden photo files.  The only 'problem' I 
have ever had is whereas with my first Samsung phone, a Galaxy Note 2 
now long since dead, you could just connect the phone to the PC and 
everything would be accessible, now I have to 'sign in' to a phone by 
whatever method you have set up, for example fingerprint recognition or 
PIN, and possibly make suitable choices on it before the phone's 
directory structure appears in Windows Explorer.

Once I've 'signed in' to my Samsung SM-T719, I can see the directory 
structure, including photos in:
     Tablet\DCIM\Camera

Once I've 'signed in' to my Pixel 8a, I have to swipe down to bring up 
the notifications and make further choices there before I can see the 
directory structure on the PC, including photos in:
     DCIM\Camera

-- 

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The perversity of Samsung Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-09-18 16:05 -0700
  Re: The perversity of Samsung Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2024-09-19 00:40 +0100
    Re: The perversity of Samsung Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-09-19 00:28 +0000
  Re: The perversity of Samsung Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2024-09-19 07:24 +0200
    Re: The perversity of Samsung micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-10-04 02:35 -0400
  Re: The perversity of Samsung Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2024-09-19 10:01 +0100
    Re: The perversity of Samsung Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-09-19 15:06 +0000
  Re: The perversity of Samsung Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-09-19 14:56 +0000
  Re: The perversity of Samsung Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-09-26 01:06 +0200
  Re: The perversity of Samsung Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-09-26 13:31 -0700
    Re: The perversity of Samsung Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-09-27 10:15 +0000
      Re: The perversity of Samsung Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-09-28 16:49 -0700
        Re: The perversity of Samsung Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-09-30 09:44 +0000
          Re: The perversity of Samsung Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-10-02 19:38 +0000

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