Re: Transferring contents of a large folder (eg 3000 photos) from Android to Windows 10

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:57:04 +0200, s|b wrote :

The OP's mother wants her photos which are located in ONE folder (DCIM).
Connect a USB-C hard drive to the phone and copy the one folder. Then
connect it to the PC and copy them there. This way there's a copy on the
PC /and/ a backup on the hard drive. Two birds with one stone.
 
As for WhatsApp media: install WhatsApp Desktop and copy the Media
contents to the PC without even connecting the phone.
 
Come on, people: KISS!

Everything you said up until that last line was appropriate since it has
all been said before in this thread in the initial responses (even mine).

But what you didn't seem to catch is the conversation has had no steerage
from the OP since the opening post, which was about 30 posts ago by my
count. So the conversation, as they are wont to do, took on its own life.

This is normal in Usenet where technical people share useful ideas.
Especially when it comes to sharing files between two different platforms.

There are always *many* (very many!) possible solutions between platforms.

So while the OP has had the answer you gave long ago provided, the rest of
us are discussing the topic of "transferring files from Android to Windows"
in general.

Insulting us doesn't change that there are *many* ways to transfer photos.
Many more than the methods you (or I, or anyone else) espouses.

Personally, I've tried every free no-account method ever discussed on this
ng so I agree that the USB (or sd card) methods are by far the easiest.

BTW, when I looked up the OP's mother's phone, it has an sd card slot.
But the OP hasn't responded as to whether there is a card in that slot.

If so, the photos "can" be on that sd card, which makes things slightly
different as it provides yet another option to easily copy to the PC.