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From: Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: The perversity of Samsung
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:40:43 +0100
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On 19/09/2024 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!
> 
> 
Just go to the nearest photo booth and save the hassle.

-- 
Jim the Geordie