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Re: The perversity of Samsung

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Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> 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!

  I'm sorry, but I don't have that problem for my Samsung Galaxy A51
(Android 13) phone with Windows 11 (and didn't have it for earlier
Android and Windows versionsi). View (-> Show) -> Hidden items behaves
exactly as it should. My Camera folder has one hidden file .<something>
(don't ask) which is hidden if Hidden items is off/unticked and shown if
it's on/ticked.

  Anyway, if anything, this is more likely a Windows/MTP problem than a
phone problem, so unless your PC is also a Samsung, your subject line is
probably misplaced! :-)

  BTW, for single file transfers, you might want to use 'Quick Share from
Google' on your computer, instead of a USB/MTP connection. (FWIW, I use
both Quick Share and USB/MTP as suits me.)

  There have been some name-changes for this facility, so here are some
relevant references:

https://9to5google.com/2024/02/01/android-quick-share-direct-share-menu/
 
https://www.sammobile.com/news/new-quick-share-released-galaxy-phones-tablets/

https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/google-and-samsungs-version-of-airdrop-is-starting-to-roll-out-to-android-devices

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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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