Windows 10: Can't drag and drop videos from my android phone to a video folder on my windows 11...

Tried to be as descriptive as possible for people who may have the same/similar issues, and can't find a direct answer. Google failed me, got similar answers but the fixes never worked for me, and most searches assume I am using OneDrive due to the error code, which I am not as far as I know.Here is the problem, in detail, with everything I have tried.I have a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6, with several large videos I want to transfer to my Windows 11 PC. They are local to my phone, and I want to transfer them to my Videos folder, which is not connected to One Drive as far as I knowI plug in my pho

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Your Phone - Unable to drag and drop files from phone to windows

Thanks for your reply.

Actually, the My files app is meant to be used that way, and it used to work in the past. See the instructions in the first post of the following thread :
Drag and Drop Files between Phone and Windows 10 PC in Your Phone app
My video shows step 6 of those instructions, and it doesn't work.

What you suggested does work, but unfortunately only allows transfer of image files, whereas the "My files" app is supposed to allow transfer of any type of files, including PDFs, etc.

What I'm really looking for is a way to transfer large video files, and that never worked unfortunately. There is an arbitrary file size limit apparently, not sure why. It doesn't make much sense. My phone is connected to the network via wifi AC at 866 Mbps. My desktop PC is connected via 10 Gbps ethernet. There is plenty of bandwidth to transfer large video files over WLAN/LAN.

I guess those files must be taking a detour through the cloud instead somehow, hence the limitation. There really should be an easy way to transfer files directly between devices, without going through cloud, when they are on the same network. Unfortunately, one can't run a Samba server on the phone unless it's rooted due to the low port number it uses, and Windows cannot configure an alternate >1024 port for Samba.

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And for me it no longer works in either direction. Seems the only way is to use the USB-C cable. But that puts wear on the connector, and I would rather avoid it and use it only for charging when required, not for data transfer.

 

Drag and Drop

Hi Charles,

the steps you suggested didn't work for me but, when pressing the escape key it somehow expanded the drive and by using drag and drop to the single file in the list worked.

In the past I could drag and drop multiple folders onto the drive on the network computer(s). Doing it on individual folders will take far too long and time consuming and is not an option.

Microsoft should be able to identify what is blocking it and issue a fix.

My machine is multi boot so tomorrow I will try with Windows 7.

Many thanks for your help,

Deric

 

Windows 11 Drag & Drop (on task bar)

Ok... windows 11 has been released, but the drag and drop feature doesn´t work... where i can feedback this suggestion?