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

On Sun, 7/20/2025 4:49 AM, Roger Mills wrote:

On 19/07/2025 20:05, Paul wrote:

>
With FTP, you can push or pull. Considering the potential asymmetry
of the capabilities of the two OSes, you will likely have to
look at both options before deciding what to do. (I was thinking
more along the lines of Android Client, and Windows FTP server.)
>

 
Considering that the user interface is on the *client*, it's far
easier if this is the PC. You don't have to touch the phone once you've turned on the server.

FTP was *never* a "good time". A good client hides the details.
Doing this is only worthwhile, with the right client. Don't even
consider this option, if you think you'll be using Terminal
to transfer the files with one command after another. It's
the client automation, your knowledge that the client does a
good job at this stuff, that makes this even worth considering.

What do I have on my PC for clients ? Well, nothing.

The phone on the other hand, does seem to have some clients
that can handle FTP, and without pestering you constantly
for things to enter.

You can transfer an entire hard drive (sector level) with FTP,
if you know how. That's not explained on the tin :-) That's how
I got a backup of my Mac G4 hard drive, without opening the
box. A Ubuntu PowerPC boot disc was used at the time, so the
Mac hard drive would be "at rest" during the transfer. You can execute
shell commands while inside FTP, and pipe the output into a
command. This apparently merited a one line note, in my
notes file :-)

ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/sda bs=73728" sda

That transfers an entire hard drive, across the net, to an 80GB
file "sda" on the receiving end. I can't even remember what FTP
server I was using at the receiving end for that. All I had for
backup software at the time, was Retrospect, and at that time
it mostly worked with tape drives, and it had limits when it
came to HDD-style backup. Using "dd" ensured I didn't miss anything.

At the time, I was using IDE drives, inside a SCSI computer. The
IDE drives were cheaper for a given capacity, which is the
incentive for doing that. My SCSI drive was 9GB, the IDE could
be 80GB.

   Paul