COPYING files from Android to PC.

downtheroad wrote:
We just plug the phone into the computer using USB cord... After the computer recognizes your phone

As I said above, "When I cable the phone and PC together, I get NO recognition on the phone or PC that either one "sees" the other."

What now?

Tim

We have Galaxy S8's also:

We just plug the phone into the computer using USB cord... After the computer recognizes your phone - Go the the "Files" folder on your phone and find the pictures your want....then use your mouse to drag and drop the picture you want to copy. We just drag them to our computer desk top and then do what we want to with them from there...

Look in folders that say....DMIC, or Camera to find the pics on your phone that you want...

This only copies the pictures..it does not delete them from your phone.

Works in reverse too ....(computer to phone

Dropbox (quite a bit of free storage) will automatically sync with my samsung j7 and samsung s8 My s8 is less than 2 months old.

Thanks all for your suggestions. I figured it out.

I copied 2,796 from my wife's phone and 1,764 from my phone to a regularly backed up PC.

Tim

GordonThree wrote:
Don't know what to tell you OP. My steps have worked for me on every Android ive owned from 4 and forward. I don't have Android 9 yet, is that what the S8 is running?

When I cable the phone and PC together, I get NO recognition on the phone or PC that either one "sees" the other.

No.. My S8+ is running 8.0.0

Tim

mike-s wrote:
What by your definition, is the difference between copy and transfer?

Transfer = CUT & Paste. MOVE from A to B.

Copy = COPY & Paste. DUPLICATE A onto B

mike-s wrote:
And, if it's an Android phone, why aren't you sync'ing with Google Photos, and then just downloading from there on your PC?

I don't want to give my data to anybody (although they probably already have it).

I also have NO footprint/interaction with any social media for the same reason.

Don't know what to tell you OP. My steps have worked for me on every Android ive owned from 4 and forward. I don't have Android 9 yet, is that what the S8 is running?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and I copy files to and from it using a USB cable all the time. You just have to make sure that the usb file access to the S8 is enabled and you can use Windows Explorer to transfer files back and forth between your PC and the Samsung.

Bill J.

What by your definition, is the difference between copy and transfer?

And, if it's an Android phone, why aren't you sync'ing with Google Photos, and then just downloading from there on your PC?

There’s an app for that. Samsung Kies.