I'm pretty sure some of you smart people have done something like this so.

My wife's aunt (late 70's) has just bought a Lumina. Ages ago I wrote a small program to allow her to plug an SD card from her camera into the computer and copy the stuff off putting it where she know it was rather than where the camera's program felt like.

This doesn't work with a Windows Phone. Looking in Windows Explorer it doesn't have a drive letter or anything I can figure out using Team Viewer from 300+ miles away.

Anyone know how to?


Roy Lambert

Roy

I don't use Windows Phone at all, but do check whether there are settings on the phone itself to make it "findable" with Windows Explorer. They are probably set "off" by default, but if you get the user to switch this setting perhaps you will get a drive-letter to work with.

Adam

Adam

>I don't use Windows Phone at all, but do check whether there are settings on the phone itself to make it "findable" with Windows Explorer. They are probably set "off" by default, but if you get the user to switch this setting perhaps you will get a drive-letter to work with.

I've been looking on the dear old web and it looks as though this is a deliberate approach by Microsoft. There were explanations of how to jump through multiple non intuitive hoops (including registry hacks) that lost me so I'm not going to try and talk a non-computer literate 70 something through them

I'll just use TeamViewer to move her photos off the phone occasionally on the basis that that is easier for me in the long run than giving her instructions on using Windows Explorer.

Roy

Roy

>> it looks as though this is a deliberate approach by Microsoft.

They seem intent on breaking their own platform ... it could all be so easy, but they insist on wrapping things up in ever more complex and counter-intuitive nonsense. TeamViewer will do the job: There's a clean, easy to use piece of software. Compare it to the Windows alternative!