I have a Motorola Moto G Play. Needs replacing, got a problem…
But I want to save the 900 photos to my computer before shit-canning it. I messed around with it and saved them all in a folder, hook it up with the cord to my laptop and it recognizes as “moto g”, but when I click on it with the file manager (Windows laptop), it says “Folder Empty”.
What do I have to do to get the computer and phone talk to each other??
I’m assuming something in the settings of the phone?? I don’t know…
HELP!
If it’s an android phone, isn’t it connected to a Google account? Just download them from Google Photos.
I don’t have a google account.
I suppose I could make one, but don’t wanna, really.
With my phone (YMMV), I connect with a USB cable. A little notification comes on the phone regarding the connection. I have to click to see the message, then click again to see “more options”. An option menu arises and I select “File Transfer”.
At that point the computer actually recognizes the file system of the phone. I click on it in My Computer and see its file system. My photos, etc., are in the folder DCIM/camera. (That DCIM upper folder name is one of my long term peeves.)
For some reason I often have to disconnect the cable and try again and then it works. If somehow the notification never appears, I go into settings, search for “USB” to get to the option menu.
It used to be you had download a driver from the phone maker’s website to enable file transfers. Not sure if that is still needed.
This is how it was with my older, non-smart Trac phone. Worked like a charm!
In the time it took me to find a cable and hook up my Moto G to verify this, I see that ftg beat me to it.
It’ll save you from losing your photos if your next phone dies or gets lost.
Remember those days when you had a photo album or a box of photos?
Yes, get a Google account. Life will be much easier.
Where does this menu show up?
Settings/Connected Devices/USB.
Edit: Usually this option will automatically pop up when you connect your phone to a computer, but if it doesn’t, you can find it in settings as described above.
Certainly Prettier. I’ve got some real beautiful pictures!
Gotta love them dachshunds!
Yahoo! Found it, fixed it and saved my pictures!
Thanks, Dopers! You the best!
I remember those days when you had vastly fewer photos because of the price of buying and developing film, plus the unlikelyhood of always carrying a camera with you. I think of so many things from my youth that I have no photos of that with modern technology I would have had hundreds.
To that end, I know someone who, in all the decades I have known him, always goes around with a camera on a strap around his neck. Got to be ready.