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

AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
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Roger Mills <mills37.fslife@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I have been using the FTP server within the ES File Explorer app
for many years, and it works fine. ...

 

ES File Explorer got banned by Google at their Play Store when they
got caught as spyware back in 2015.  It is still not listed there.

 
Guess Amazon is more trusting. ES File Explorer is still available for
download in their Appstore...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/appstore/android/faq
"Amazon Appstore on Android and Coins will be discontinued on August 20,
2025."
"Starting August 20, 2025, any apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore
will not be guaranteed to operate on Android devices."

If you got ES File Explorer from Amazon's app store, you have a month
until it may malfunction.  Or, more likely, you won't be getting any
updates to the app, anymore.  Doesn't look to get updates very often.
Affection from its devs seems to have petered out in 2021.

https://es-file-explorer.en.uptodown.com/android/versions

The version 4.2.1.3.a at the Amazon store is pretty old, and not the
latest version available according to the app author's version history.
4.2.1.4 is dated Jun 2022.  Before you say that is not a web site for
the app, go to http://www.estrongs.com/, and click on Android, and,
guess what, you're taken to the uptodown.com site.  They don't link to
the Amazon app store nor, obviously, to the Google app store.  Also
notice www.estrongs.com does not have a site certificate.  You trust
them if you want.  I don't.

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/14316293/amazon-appstore-android-google-play-apps-closing-shutting-down/

Or, maybe Amazon is just eliminating access to their app store on
non-Amazon devices.  Maybe you can still access their app store using
their store app on Amazon devices (e.g., Fire tablets nee Kindle).  I'm
not wasting money and time on a Fire tablet to find out after the cutoff
date.

As I faintly recall, do-global made a correction to their app regarding
its untoward behavior, but I never kept up with its progress.  What I do
remember from back then was it was adware, and worse was that it
permitted full-sized ads.  An ad could occupy the entire screen making
the phone unusable until you dismissed the ad.  The only way to dismiss
the ad (since the Android navbar was overlaid) was to use the "X" button
at the top right; however, that may not simply close the window, but
could first run a script to do who-know-what on your phone.  I consider
any app as malware that acts as a pipe to display fullscreen ads.  After
determining it was ES showing the fullscreen ads that interferred with
using my phone, I got rid of it.  Later was when I read about its
spyware behavior.  Even if they stopped spying, I wasn't going to
ressurect the app on my phone, because of its fullscreen ads.

Is the current version of ES Explorer *not* adware?  It never displays
ANY ads?  It still offers in-app ads, but perhaps those are to lure
users to the premium version which are different from external ads over
which app authors always indemnify themselves of any responsibility
regarding their content, or if fullscreen to interfere with using the
phone. 

The app is not available at Google's Play Store.  It never came back.
Looks like Amazon is dropping access to their Android app store to users
on non-Amazon devices.  The app author doesn't even point to the Amazon
app store.  So, for me, there is no point in wasting time retesting this
app of dubious reputation that will soon be unavailable except at a
dubious download source by a site that doesn't use a site cert.

How many red lights does it take before you come to a stop?