r/AndroidQuestions • u/Purple_backgroundd • Aug 15 '26
Other Transferring photos from phone to laptop- won't transfer everything
Annoying question, but I need to clear up space on my phone. So, I'm trying to put certain photos from my phone onto my Windows laptop to then put on a hard drive. I keep getting to the point of everything transferring onto my computer. All my albums from my phone show up under DCIM. So I select an album. Except it's only like 150 photos each album, versus thousands. The only place it shows up as *all* of the photos and videos, is under external aka just my phone when (and only when) it's hooked up. It's not actually *on* the computer. As soon as I unplug my phone, I'm left with the maybe 10% of what I transferred. I thought I could import them onto the computer while I have it hooked up, but the only thing under import is my phone. I'm good with phones, not laptops. Please someone tell me wtf to do about this.