Access flles on a Android device from Windows PC << YES! Thanks

[Fred Fishbin]

Yup, that seems to be the deal, and there doesn't seem tpo be a really simple 
way to deal with this.  ...but at least I know what I need to look for.

thanks!  Freddie

eryk sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Fred Fishbin <FredFishbin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I want to write little program that my friend can run - he'll plug a USB 
>>drive
>> into his Windows 7 PC, plug his phone in a USB port on same PC, then run my
>> program and it'll xfer some audiobook files over for him.
>>
>> I plugged the USB drive in and it became "G:\", but the phone plugged in and
>> became just "SAMSUNG-SM-G930V", no drive designation, just a Portable Media
>> Device.  Windows Explore can go there so the files are accessible, the phone
>> isn't looking him out, but what do I use for a path?  I tried several 
>>different
>> listdir()'s nothing worked.
>
>The shell is probably mounting the device via the Windows Portable
>Devices (WPD) API. It isn't mounted as a USB disk with a file system,
>so it won't be assigned a drive letter that you can simply use via
>file-system APIs such as open (CreateFile), listdir (FindFirstFile),
>etc. You can look into using WPD Automation via win32com [1]. I
>haven't used WPD, so I can't offer specific help.
>
>https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd389295