Question about file transfer to Android device

[Bret Busby]

On 23/9/25 06:17, Charles M wrote:
> Hi Bret, what do you need to transfer - is it images and video, or documents?
> 
> If it's just images and video you need, I wonder if
> rapid-photo-downloader (sudo apt install rapid-photo-downloader) would
> see and download from the tablet without extra nonsense? I find it
> handy with phones.
> 
> On Android Phones I find I typically have to change the mode on the
> phone from Charging to File Transfer (pulling down from the top,
> selecting the charging, and switching it to a transfer mode)... also
> some cables are charge only.
> 
> I haven't tried it yet, but I also see there's apparently an Android
> version of Warpinator. It might be simpler to go that route with
> warpinator on both devices? https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator
> 

Hello.

I want to copy only about half a dozen or so image files.

I have downloaded some Ubuntu Mate iso's - 24.04 and 25.04, and a Linux 
Mint Mate 22.2 (based on Ubuntu Mate 24.04) iso, and am copying them to 
a Ventoy drive, to find, as suggested, whether I can access the tablet 
PC file hierarchy from those versions.

I figure that, if the available file managers for an operating system, 
cannot see the file hierarchy on an external device, then, a higher 
level application will not be able to access the file hierarchy on the 
external device.

What I will probably end up doing, with all of the messing around 
involved, whilst I have set up a new Ventoy drive (I have lost the one 
that I have previously used, and, the new one is bigger and slower), 
and, am putting these later version Linux iso's on it, is copy the image 
files to a thumb drive, and get my wife to boot up her MS Win 11 
computer, and, get her to copy the files to the tablet PC.

It appears simply too difficult, and, too complicated, to do it, using 
Linux.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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