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

On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:05:11 +0100, NY wrote:

 
My mother has a lot of photos (both taken on her Android phone's camera
and received as attachments in WhatsApp) which she wants to transfer to
her Windows PC for permanent storage and backup to a USB HDD.
 
The phone is Android 14, Samsung Galaxy A13 SM-A137F/DSN. The PC is Win
10 Pro.
 
Unfortunately this phone only has internal storage, so it's not even
possible to copy files to Micro SD card in the phone and then remove it
and put it in a card reader on the PC.
 
Is there is way around this?

On May 7th I posted about Localsend, which transfers files lickety-
split via Wifi. I haven't tried a big folder such as you mention, but
I expect it would work.

Here is what I wrote about Localsend:

Localsend (free and open source) lets you transfer files between
devices that are on the same Wifi LAN. I've seen and tried many other
solutions, but this is the first one that actually worked for me. (I
tried transfers in both directions.)

https://github.com/localsend/localsend/releases/tag/v1.17.0

You load the app on your phone (I found it in the Google Play Store)
and the appropriate version from the above link on your computer.
Yes, you can have more than two devices with Localsend, though I
didn't test that.  Each install creates a device identifier name that
is unique to Localsend, to identify the sending device to the
receiver and vice versa.

You need to have Localsend actually running on both devices involved
in the transfer. A nice feature is that in Android when you have a
picture, you can just tap the Share icon and the picture will appear
in Localsend. I transferred a couple of pictures that were a few
hundred K each, and the transfer was instantaneous.

Source:
https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-android-apps-to-install/

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