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Java Jive wrote on Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:01:56 +0100 :

On 2024-09-19 00:05, Stan Brown wrote:

I needed to upload a picture from my Samsung A54 5G phone to my
windows 10 PC. (It's for a passport, so I couldn't just email it to
myself because the phone compressed it from 4 MB down to 200 KB; the
State Department wants full resolution.)

Connected phone to PC by USB cable, picked "Transferring files" in
the phone's popup. In Windows File Explorer, opened Galaxy A54 5G »
Internal Storage » DCIM » Camera. No sign of my picture. Switched to
View » Details so that I could sort newest to oldest, since this
picture is the one I took most recently. Nothing there more recent
than last fall, when I switched from a Moto e5+ phone. Hmm. Picture
must be somewhere on the Samsung, but where?

Opened Gallery on the phone and the picture was right there. Tapped
on the i-in-a-circle, and the phone showed the location as /Internal
Storage/DCIM/Camera. But that's the folder I have open in File
Explorer, and the pic isn't there! Maybe the picture is a hidden
file, and I need to enable viewing hidden files? Clicked View in File
Explorer, and Hidden Items was already checked.

Something whispered to me to turn off viewing of Hidden Items. As
soon as I did that, File Explorer showed the pictures I had taken
with the Samsung phone. I clicked the photo I wanted and dragged it
to my desktop/.

That's right, the picture files are invisible when View » Hidden
Items is checked, and visible when View Hidden Items is blank (not
checked). Oy vey!

This has never been my experience with any Samsung or Android phone.
I have never had problems with hidden photo files. The only 'problem' I
have ever had is whereas with my first Samsung phone, a Galaxy Note 2
now long since dead, you could just connect the phone to the PC and everything would be accessible, now I have to 'sign in' to a phone by whatever method you have set up, for example fingerprint recognition or
PIN, and possibly make suitable choices on it before the phone's
directory structure appears in Windows Explorer.

Once I've 'signed in' to my Samsung SM-T719, I can see the directory structure, including photos in:
Tablet\DCIM\Camera

Once I've 'signed in' to my Pixel 8a, I have to swipe down to bring up
the notifications and make further choices there before I can see the directory structure on the PC, including photos in:
DCIM\Camera

As always, I'd like to help the OP do what I can easily do with Win10.

Like Frank, I've been connecting Android phones to the PC by USB, WebDav,
FTP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ad-hoc Wi-Fi, and proprietary tools since always.

Like Java Jive, I've never experienced what the OP is experiencing, simply because it's so trivial to move files back & forth without any logging in.

I don't log into the phone. I don't log into the PC. It's all login free.

I can show hundreds of screenshots proving this, but Stan's experience,
while frustrating, must be due to something, as Frank said, in Stan's MTP.
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