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[Q] Copying files to/from TF

Hello guys,
I have an Eee Pad TF with the latest 3.2 update. I have problems copying/cutting and pasting folders with a reasonably large number of files in them (mainly pictures) to the TF from PC via WiFi and also from the TF to my NAS (WiFi) or also microSD. It seems the copy stops at some point and skips or leave out some of the files. I tried with File Manager HD (updated last night), ES Explorer, File Expert, etc.
It is frustrating as I never know if the copy has completed successfully without comparing the folders content and still I don't trust just a file-count control.
As anybody come across any similar issue? Is there a way to compare folders like in total commander? Is there a log to be checked after copying large amount of files?
Thanks a lot!

The only solution I've come up with is to either create an FTP using the PC and copy it over by downloading them with FileZilla. Or you can use USB and enable USB debugging and use "adb pull" command to download everything. Another option is to use DropSync PRO and sync the picture photo with dropbox.

Three situations that you have to find out.
1. large number of files can be transferred from/to between SD and MicroSD, but not via WiFi...wifi not stable.
2. large number of files can be transferred from/to via WiFi, but not SD and MicroSD...cards not stable.
3. Both WiFi and Cards coping are not stable...use other File Manager App. ( I use File Manager HD also, but I seldom transferring large numbers of files.)

I've noticed this too while using file expert to copy large files and folder locally, ES file explorer did have this problem but it seems to be fixed now. I've always found that root explorer always works perfectly in this case.

[Q] Can't get all files copied over from internal phone memory to my computer

Hi Everyone,
My wife owns an HTC One XL (Telstra) phone which has many very important photos on it (particularly photos of the birth of our 3rd child). Normally I systematically backup all files from my wife's phones. However in this particular instance I am running into some difficulties. I have the HTC Sync program installed (on a Windows 7 64 bit computer) - and when I look at the number of photos on the device through the Sync Manager the number reported does not agree with Windows Explorer.
HTC Sync reports approximately 700 photos, whereas Windows Explorer reports around 1300!
Furthermore when I simply use Windows Explorer to copy the files from the phone over to a folder on my computer not all photos are copied across. I can then subsequently delete the files from my computer and re-copy (from the phone) over to my computer, and strangely enough a different number of files copy over successfully each time!!!
In all instances when I perform the copy operation Windows reports that copying will take about 15 minutes, and then depending on the "mood" the copy process will cease after 20 seconds, or 1 minute, or some other random time.
If anybody knows how to reliably copy all the photos on this phone to a computer can you please shed some light?
Kind Regards,
Davo

I'm guessing it's on Jellybean 4.1, so when you mount it's in the stupid MTP format.
Is the phone rooted? If it is, you could mount usb storage in recovery, which uses mass storage format, and should be easier.
Sent from my Evita

Recovery uses the same as the ROM for me. So if I use a sense jb brom recovery is also mtp but if I use aosp its mass storage.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app

Hmm ok, if I have a sense ROM booted I can't transfer files to/from my ps3, but if I mount in recovery it works just fine. So I had assumed it was using mass storage. I've also read that somewhere. Might warrant some further investigation.
Sent from my Evita

The answer!!!
Hi Everyone,
To the best of my knowledge my wife's phone runs on Ice Cream Sandwich - and it definitely isn't rooted.
All this being said I found a solution!
1). Download and install My Mobiler for Android
2). Right click on the My Mobiler icon (in the taskbar) and select Device
My Mobiler - Select Device
3). Select Install from the Device menu
My Mobiler - Select Install
4). On your mobile you will need to grant permission for the App to install
! Once installed the My Mobiler App icon will appear in the top left hand corner of the screen on your mobile, and you will see this screen...
My Mobiler "Start Screen"
5). Select Mobile Explorer from the My Mobiler menu on your computer (same screen shot as in point 2).
! The Mobile Explorer Window will then be presented as shown below -
My Mobiler - Mobile Explorer
6). Transfer your files to your hearts content
7). Disconnect your phone, and exit both the Windows program and the App (through your phone's task manager)
I hope that this helps others who may be in a similar position.
Kind Regards,
Davo
As a side note I have never been able to get the "remote control" aspect of this software going - the screen is always jumpy!!!

Photo and Video transfer issues with S6 to Windows 7 & 10

I have used microsoft autoplay for years transferring photos and videos to my PC from my camera and my phone. The phone is working fine with one exception.
1) I'm able using autoplay on my PC to set a destination directory on the PC i.e. C:\Users\Mike\Pictures\2015
2) I can also tag them with event details or simply let them the folder be auto named to the date of transfer.
3) Deleting the source is also optional, saying no, simply lets them remain on the phone.
What I have noted since I got my S6, is the S6 will not simply transfer the videos and photos in the /DCIM/Camera folder, but it will transfer TTS files from the navigation software Waze under the Android/Wave folder and other files from assorted game apps also under the android folder.
So I have two questions:
1) Is there anyway to tell the phone to only share the folders under "DCIM" during sync / transfer?
2) Is there any other way to hide folders on the phone other than "private mode", this does not work as the navigation software does not see it's TTS files and simply transfers them again?
This seems to be a pretty simple issue, yet its stumped me and Samsung was no help either, they suggested their smart switch software, which is more for backup than transferring periodically.
Thanks
Mike

Data loss by moving data to the PC - Help!

Hello, everyone,
Unfortunately, something "bad" happened to us two days ago.
My wife still has an "old" Samsung Galaxy S7 without root and with the actual standard rom.
Instead of copying the pictures and videos (the first 6 months of our child's life), we moved the data.
Now we have JPEG and movie files on the PC, but they show as 9 GB each (but they only occupy a 4kb block on the disk) - With the HEX editor I could see that except a block of 4KB it contains only 0-byte "info".
Unfortunately a recovery with tools like "Recuva" does not work, because the device is not recognized as a mass storage device (even in USB debug mode).
Other free tools which supposedly recover files on the device without root have not found any data.
Do you have an idea how we can recover the photos and videos?
We switched off the mobile phone for safety reasons, so that nothing is "overwritten" by mistake. Or a TRIM-mechanism for damage to the possibly still existing data fragments so called
My root experience with Android unfortunately dates back to the "KitKat" age and at that time, as far as I remember, the data had to be wiped after the root process.
In general, we are have no Problem, if there is no other possibility to root the device to try out local data recovery tools?
Do you have any ideas how we can somehow recover the really emotionally important data?
Thank you very much for your help!

AgentFrost said:
Hello, everyone,
Unfortunately, something "bad" happened to us two days ago.
My wife still has an "old" Samsung Galaxy S7 without root and with the actual standard rom.
Instead of copying the pictures and videos (the first 6 months of our child's life), we moved the data.
Now we have JPEG and movie files on the PC, but they show as 9 GB each (but they only occupy a 4kb block on the disk) - With the HEX editor I could see that except a block of 4KB it contains only 0-byte "info".
Unfortunately a recovery with tools like "Recuva" does not work, because the device is not recognized as a mass storage device (even in USB debug mode).
Other free tools which supposedly recover files on the device without root have not found any data.
Do you have an idea how we can recover the photos and videos?
We switched off the mobile phone for safety reasons, so that nothing is "overwritten" by mistake. Or a TRIM-mechanism for damage to the possibly still existing data fragments so called
My root experience with Android unfortunately dates back to the "KitKat" age and at that time, as far as I remember, the data had to be wiped after the root process.
In general, we are have no Problem, if there is no other possibility to root the device to try out local data recovery tools?
Do you have any ideas how we can somehow recover the really emotionally important data?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Can you still access the photos on the phone?

cooltt said:
Can you still access the photos on the phone?
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I'm afraid not.
We have transferred the photos with "move" instead of "copy".
From the perspective of the phone, the files were successfully transferred, even if they arrived corrupted on the Windows system.

AgentFrost said:
I'm afraid not.
We have transferred the photos with "move" instead of "copy".
From the perspective of the phone, the files were successfully transferred, even if they arrived corrupted on the Windows system.
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Well all that would have been moved is a folder with all the files in. Windows should be able to open jpegs and videos easily. You possibly didn't move the correct folder.
Download Samsung USB drivers for your pc and install them.
Connect phone, wait for Windows to show in folder panel then choose allow data transfer on the phone itself.
You can then explore the various folders on the phone.
Vidoes and pictures are stored in the DCIM folder on the phone or SD card. Sometimes in folder called "Pictures".
It's highly unlikely you've lost those files if all you did was move the folder.
Even move the folder on the pc back to the phone where it came from?

cooltt said:
Well all that would have been moved is a folder with all the files in. Windows should be able to open jpegs and videos easily. You possibly didn't move the correct folder.
Download Samsung USB drivers for your pc and install them.
Connect phone, wait for Windows to show in folder panel then choose allow data transfer on the phone itself.
You can then explore the various folders on the phone.
Vidoes and pictures are stored in the DCIM folder on the phone or SD card. Sometimes in folder called "Pictures".
It's highly unlikely you've lost those files if all you did was move the folder.
Even move the folder on the pc back to the phone where it came from?
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The photos have been transferred from the DCIM folder to a Windows PC.
However, there seem to have been problems during the transfer, as the files in Windows are each over 9GB in size (over 5TB of photos and videos in total) - this can't be right, of course. In the file properties of Windows it is shown that the 9GB file only takes up 4KB of space on the hard disk. Even when i inspect one of those files with an HEX-Viewer i can see, that there is only a 4KB -Data Block at the End of the .jpeg file with no content.
As I said, it looks like the files were somehow badly damaged during transfer. And the phone thinks that the files have been moved successfully and accordingly the files are no longer findable in the Android file system or, as usual when moving, deleted from the source.
Since Windows believes that a file alone is 9GB, we are not able to transfer the file back to the device.
Is there any way to restore the files on the Android device?

AgentFrost said:
The photos have been transferred from the DCIM folder to a Windows PC.
Is there any way to restore the files on the Android device?
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Only if you set it to back up with the Google account which stores a copy of all photos video and files.

cooltt said:
Only if you set it to back up with the Google account which stores a copy of all photos video and files.
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Sadly no Cloud Backup of the files.
That's why we already tried to recover the files with Recuva (which doesn't work because of the missing USB mass storage mode) and other tools.
In the meantime I have also read that a recovery of data on the mobile phone only works with root access.

Question Transfer music over USB closes file explorer

I am trying to copy a large amout of music to the internal storage of my S22 Ultra with a USB-C to C 3.1 Gen 2 cable on Windows 11 (also tried another PC with 10). When I paste the files into the Music folder, the transfer starts like normal but then file explorer just closes and the computer makes a sound like the phone has been disconnected. I've managed to get it to work in the past by transfering much smaller amounts of files but I don't see why large volumes do this. Am I missing something? I takes so long to manually select these files I just want to do it all at once.

evertroy said:
I am trying to copy a large amout of music to the internal storage of my S22 Ultra with a USB-C to C 3.1 Gen 2 cable on Windows 11 (also tried another PC with 10). When I paste the files into the Music folder, the transfer starts like normal but then file explorer just closes and the computer makes a sound like the phone has been disconnected. I've managed to get it to work in the past by transfering much smaller amounts of files but I don't see why large volumes do this. Am I missing something? I takes so long to manually select these files I just want to do it all at once.
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The problem is most likely with the USB port on your laptop. Otherwise, try using another cable.
If you have power saving enabled for your USB ports on your laptop, try disabling it and see if that helps.

Try in safe mode using Samsung's My files.
If that works try in normal mode.
Try toggling Developer options temporarily off.
Bad cable or port.
Incorrect Windows driver.
Check Windows Event Viewer for error messages.
On my N10+'s I transfer 240+gb a shot with no issues... however if the PC 'hiccups' it will drop the transfer. Occasionally I see that happen.
Don't run other programs or use during transfers and mind the power settings/states of both devices, adjust as needed for transfers.
My OTG flashsticks generally do better.
Always verify data size and file number after transfer and... readability.

This isn't a device or laptop problem.
I had this many times on all my devices.
Check the file names.
For example my file transfer on any android phone crashes/stops with errors if the file name is something like
LitOldschoolHipHopMixtape .mp3 - Has space between name and file extension
or
LitMixtape '90s Style.mp3 - has ' in the name
or
⛥Dxrk ダーク - RAVE⛥.flac - emoji/text symbol
or
Ночной дрифт 藤原 car music collection.aiff - multi language name
Checking the file names would be the first step to do if you experience such issues.
If you are connected with PC/Laptop and Phone to same network, try with this app here
On Windows you go to file explorer (if on Windows 7 or earlier, use FileZilla), right click on This PC, add a network location, on the address bar type ftp:// and your ip address. For example ftp://127.0.0.1:8080

MichalPlays said:
This isn't a device or laptop problem.
I had this many times on all my devices.
Check the file names.
For example my file transfer on any android phone crashes/stops with errors if the file name is something like
LitOldschoolHipHopMixtape .mp3 - Has space between name and file extension
or
LitMixtape '90s Style.mp3 - has ' in the name
or
⛥Dxrk ダーク - RAVE⛥.flac - emoji/text symbol
or
Ночной дрифт 藤原 car music collection.aiff - multi language name
Checking the file names would be the first step to do if you experience such issues.
If you are connected with PC/Laptop and Phone to same network, try with this app here
On Windows you go to file explorer (if on Windows 7 or earlier, use FileZilla), right click on This PC, add a network location, on the address bar type ftp:// and your ip address. For example ftp://127.0.0.1:8080
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Yeah... I never allow anything other than plain text in file or folder names.
If needed I edit them when they're downloaded.
The KISS principle applies here.
All media files especially downloads are always kept in their own separate folder if added to the database. That can provide an extra security layer that will stop some malicious scripts if they get into the main folder. One scripted jpeg will make a believer out of you

evertroy said:
I am trying to copy a large amout of music to the internal storage of my S22 Ultra with a USB-C to C 3.1 Gen 2 cable on Windows 11 (also tried another PC with 10). When I paste the files into the Music folder, the transfer starts like normal but then file explorer just closes and the computer makes a sound like the phone has been disconnected. I've managed to get it to work in the past by transfering much smaller amounts of files but I don't see why large volumes do this. Am I missing something? I takes so long to manually select these files I just want to do it all at once.
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I've run into this issue too when copying my music collection (about 180GB). I think it is because of the amount of data you are copying. I ended up copying smaller chunks at a time. Usually around 10 to 15 GB of data at a time.

I narrowed it down to specific files and changed the file names. Thanks @MichalPlays