- May 3, 2016
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Hi,
Just upgraded from a Galaxy S7 to Pixel 4A 5G & am just getting familiar with the Pixel, where functions are located & googling to find answers. Something I'm having trouble with is viewing camera footage in the Pixel from my Win 10 PC.
In the Samsung, I would attach the phone to the PC, go to the DCIM > CAMERA folder in the phone and would see all the photos in the phone as thumbnails, same look as in any folder in the PC. If I wanted to select a particular photo to transfer to the computer it was simply select the desired photo, then copy & paste to a PC folder. However, in the Pixel I can see nothing except a generic icon looking like 2 mountains & a moon in shades of blue for each photograph. Zero indication of what any of the photographs are except for the unique name of each photo.
If I copy and paste an icon (photo) from the Pixel to the computer it now becomes a normal & viewable .jpg. However, if I move any .jpg in the computer into the Pixel's Camera folder, it becomes that same blue toned generic thumbnail. So apparently it's a characteristic of the Pixel's CAMERA folder that the PC can't view its contents as photographs.
This is incredibly unwieldy, I can not tell from the computer what anything is I'm looking at and if I want to leave any photographs permanently in the camera, I can only select & choose those from within the camera itself. As I often take dozens of photos and want to only keep a few in the phone, editing will become nearly impossible if I can't view the camera's folder from the PC.
I've tried viewing the INTERNAL STORAGE > DCIM > CAMERA folder with two computers and have the same problem in each. Is there something I've missed? As no manual came with this unlocked phone (running on Straight Talk), I'm in the dark.
Suggestions?
Just upgraded from a Galaxy S7 to Pixel 4A 5G & am just getting familiar with the Pixel, where functions are located & googling to find answers. Something I'm having trouble with is viewing camera footage in the Pixel from my Win 10 PC.
In the Samsung, I would attach the phone to the PC, go to the DCIM > CAMERA folder in the phone and would see all the photos in the phone as thumbnails, same look as in any folder in the PC. If I wanted to select a particular photo to transfer to the computer it was simply select the desired photo, then copy & paste to a PC folder. However, in the Pixel I can see nothing except a generic icon looking like 2 mountains & a moon in shades of blue for each photograph. Zero indication of what any of the photographs are except for the unique name of each photo.
If I copy and paste an icon (photo) from the Pixel to the computer it now becomes a normal & viewable .jpg. However, if I move any .jpg in the computer into the Pixel's Camera folder, it becomes that same blue toned generic thumbnail. So apparently it's a characteristic of the Pixel's CAMERA folder that the PC can't view its contents as photographs.
This is incredibly unwieldy, I can not tell from the computer what anything is I'm looking at and if I want to leave any photographs permanently in the camera, I can only select & choose those from within the camera itself. As I often take dozens of photos and want to only keep a few in the phone, editing will become nearly impossible if I can't view the camera's folder from the PC.
I've tried viewing the INTERNAL STORAGE > DCIM > CAMERA folder with two computers and have the same problem in each. Is there something I've missed? As no manual came with this unlocked phone (running on Straight Talk), I'm in the dark.
Suggestions?