Re: The perversity of Samsung

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