How do I transfer files from Android cellphone

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:17 PM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have an Android cellphone that I connect to my UbuntuMATE 18.04
> computer via USB tethering, and, use that for accessing the WWW on
> that computer.
>
> On my cellphone, I have a number of image files (screenshots) that I
> want to transfer to the computer.
>
> Rather than attaching each file to a gmail email message composed on
> the cellphone, and, sending a copy of the file, for downloading to the
> computer, how do I direcly transfer the files?
>
> I have searched using google, and, the closest that I found to an
> answer, states that, upon connecting an Android cellphone to a
> computer, via USB, a window automatically pops up on the cellphone,
> with an option for MTP file transfer.  This does not happen with my
> cellphone.
>
> The cellphone does not show as a storage device in the caja file
> manager, for cut/copy and paste file transfers.
>
> So, how do I transfer files from my cellphone to my computer, when the
> cellphone is connected to the computer via USB?
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
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Try the pull down menu on your phone.  On mine, which is 5x android, this
shows a menu for transfer.


garyk
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