On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:01:21 -0400 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 00:09 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe I need some utility on my phone to get it to read/write to >> ext4. Does anyone have any clues? >This has been discussed here before. Still maybe worth of a reminder. > >I use TotalCommander + its sftp plugin to connect to my computer over >WiFi+LAN and transfer whatever I need without stinking troublesome USB >which I find crippled on Android. You mentioned Total Commander before, and I immediately installed it. Later I uninstalled it when I discovered that it could not copy/move files to the internal directories of Android. At the time I had some MP3 files on a USB drive that were visible on the phone. I selected them and clicked on 'Copy' at the bottom of the window. Then I navigated to the Music folder inside Android, where there was a Paste button, but it was grayed out. Later I discovered a couple other file managers that had the same problem. So I asked on an Android forum and was told to use Samsung File Manager. It worked, and I never looked back. However, now that you have mentioned its sftp plugin perhaps I should give it a second look. This morning I read Galen's suggestion of AirDroid, and I started to install it, but aborted the installation when it insisted that I give it a valid, verified e-mail address and agree to let it send me 'important notifications.' I know what that means. And after that experience I found other similar utilities that weren't as annoying, and I installed one. On my laptop I have a couple FTP tools that I have used in the past to transfer files to PSU, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to use them with the phone tool. At the moment my motivation has dropped because I found a different solution. I took one of my EXFAT drives and reformatted it to FAT32. The I copied 60GB of files to it from my laptop, and when I put it in the phone all the files were immediately visible and no problem moving them around. I'm not wild about FAT32, but it got the job done. I still think there is something screwy with EXFAT or the way I'm using it. Maybe I'll give it another go a year from now.
