Re: The perversity of Samsung

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:05:16 -0700, 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?

My Samsung phone is even more perverse.

Four times out of fice, when I plug it in to transfer the picture, it
tells me "Charging" and refuses to show me anything on the phone at
all.

It requires several reboots of both the phone and the computer to get
it to show the picture directory at all, or anything other than
"charging".

 


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