I just got a new phone, and I needed to copy some files over from my old phone SD card onto my new phone’s self storage. There did not seem an easy way so I decided to do it old the fashioned way
Copy files to my Mac
Copy files to my new phone - a Samsung S23
I had not done this for a couple of time, and Android File Transfer tool was not working for me. So I searched around for options to do this.
The approach that I used
Enable USB debugging on your phone
Install Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) that is part of the Android platform tools package using homebrew
brew install android-platform-tools
Search for devices using adb devices
which returns something below
daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037 daemon started successfully List of devices attached R5CW8168GDX unauthorized
As you can see this is the first time the device has been seen by adb so needs to have its fingerprint stored, all you have to do is open your phone and accept the prompts.
When the prompts have been accepted, you can see the device is now available
List of devices attached R5CW8168GDX device
Connect to the phone
adb shell
Navigate to the path where you want to put the files mine was /storage/self/primary
Thus I have the
Push files from the computer
adb push <absolute_local_computer_path> <absolute_remote_phone_path>
adb pull `<absolute_remote_phone_path>`
<absolute_local_computer_path>
Voila and there you are …
Are there any GUI tools that you have used in 2023?