I'd like to know if it's possible to map a simple shared folder or network drive from my Windows PC onto my Android device to act like a normal folder accessible from any app designating a storage location.
An example of this in action would be downloading something from the android Google Chrome browser and having it saving directly to the Windows PC mapped storage drive and not the phone's internal or external storage.
I am aware you can use ES Explorer and the like to access a shared homegroup folder from your phone but it doesn't work as a normal folder so you cant store files directly to the PC from the phone's apps.
Android 8.0
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hi, in windows mobile I had a very small app that integrated native network access to the os, that way I could simply navigate into my shared folders on my computer using any app, without any app needing samba support cause my computer's shared folders were seen by those programs as a normal folder in windows mobile, kinda like a diferent partition alongside the sdcard, and so it allowed me to use any video player for example and just browse to my network folder like we do from one computer to another and like that watch the videos I have stored in my computer in my mobile.
I was wondering if there is any app that adds that network integration to the android os so that any program can easily access shared folders on a computer?
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I dont have a pc or this would not be an issue.
I use my 10.1 and gn2 for all my computer work as my pc killed the motherboard. I would like to use my seagste central wireless hard drive as my network hd. Not an issue, it shows in es file explorer but it will not let me access my password protected folders. Is there a way to access them, even from another explorer, or do I have to use the less than effecient seagate app.
Also, is there a way to download my music files straight from google play to my seagate central? I have them all on an external hd, but my seagate will not read powered hd's. I cannot transfer them through my samsung smart dock because it only reads fat32, and my usb adapter for my 10.1 is the same. I cant even figure out how to do a mass download od my music, 20, 000 plus songs, on to my note. I was trying to download in small portions onto my ext micro but I have to do it individual albums or artists.
Any ideas?
When will manufactures start giving phones and tablets the same access as pc's
Hi guys,
I have set up a smb server on my android device (smart tv thing I bought from amazon)
I can access the external drives that are attached to the device fine from windows explorer but cannot transfer anything, I get some message pop up on windows saying the path could not be found.
I've tried searching for a solution but can't find anything. I've tried ftp and that works for single files but not batch files/folders.
Smb is the only way I've been able to map the directory through windows.
Is there anyone who can help with this?
I just need a simple solution to transfer data using win explorer to the external drives attached to my android device.
Hi all,
I have a HDD that I can connect to my S9+ using an OTG adapter. Using the My Files file explorer, I can access the files just fine. However, I struggle to get third party apps to access the drive. My ultimate aim is to edit some video files on the drive. I have installed several video editing apps and none can access the files. I have a few file explorers that can read the drive but cannot open the files with the video editors. I dont wish to copy the files to my phone, edit them and then copy them back as that's a tedious process.
Is there any way to force those apps to access the files? I'm not rooted.
Hello basically I've sort of made a mess of an external hard drive with photos going back to the 1950's
I used my external hard drive to do a backup of my phone. Here is where I'm at.
If I plug the Hard drive into my pc I have lots of Huawei folders/ 2 pictures folders / steam folder and epic games folder.
I can view my steam and epic games folder fine.
But both pictures folders show up with hidden album ( I've applied show hidden files etc in Windows explorer)
So no luck with my Pc.
But if I connect the USB drive to an otg cable I can view 400gb of photos going back to 1950's up to 2021.
I didn't t want to mess them up so phoned Huawei ( useless)
I can move folders one at a time from the hard drive onto phone internal storage then copy to phone/ repeat.
But I don't know which folder to move them to.
As in move from hard drive / choose another location /???
If anyone knows what folder to move to, so they will be in the right place when I connect phone to PC I can transfer them too.
Thank you.
Solved.
Otg cable with USB ports.
Bought a Nano memory card.
Connected hard drive to Otg USB port.
Transferred photos from hard drive to nano memory card.
Windows now recognises photos and are currently being backed up to a Nvme drive )