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Re: "as long as it works".
I bought her a Kindle to spare her.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I have a Kindle Fire 1.0. It’s hardware is sufficient for browsing and streaming but Amazon stopped updates 2 years after release including CA certificates.
Useless today except for reading books/PDFs that I side load via PC.
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the evil part - MS hides stuff under layers and layers of dialogs.
It seems that they have redirected My Documents
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Charlie, old friend, you know better. In the Beginning, there was RS232...
I hear ya... This useless Windows 11 won't even let me look at my local drive anymore; it only displays the OneDrive trash I can't seem to kill. Maybe it's finally time to learn Linux. I think we need to start thinking of MS as HAL, and treating them and their overbearing ways accordingly.
Will Rogers never met me.
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you mother trucker. Old farts venting here. This one drive sh*t needs to be a class action suit. I'm still looking for where this POS OS put my damn folder.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't get it... what happens to your windows 11?? I'm on it but don't have that issue... (maybe it is because I refused the PIN/Login on cloud BS, dunno)
care to elaborate please?
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not quite sure yet. I too refuse to use a network / global / virus login to keep everything synced. What may have spoofed me is the relocation of 1 drive in windows explorer. it all went down hill from there.
MS allegedly prides itself on UI stuff. Changing UI behavior is just evil.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My iPhone - not that I'm an apple fan - that was a family decision and I'm going to leave that turd there. See the PS at the end.
Seems over the years I've filled up my phone. Well, either I have or apple has or the cell company. See PSS. All I want to do is move the DCIM folder to my hard drive and free up my phone.
I'm on round 3.
Ps, I really could not give a $$$t about phones, no one calls me but spammers. Apparently, the only reason I need a cellphone is for two factor authentication. I am now cashing all my checks and putting it under my bed.
Pps Seems the cell company acquired our provider, finally completed integration and my daughter received 8 text indicating payment was overdue (they lost the autopay...). Which is way, way too much but I digress. Seriously, I'm turning the sucker off, and that's not what I want to elephanting say.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My first store-bought home computer was an Apple IIc. I couldn't wait to get rid of that trash, so I understand your frustration. I've never owned anything Apple since, and I never will.
Will Rogers never met me.
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All I every saw anyone use an Apple for (in an office environment) was desktop publishing. The "work" was done on PC's and mainframes.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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In the beginning, I'll give them credit; their graphics were superb. Artsie-craftsie types loved them. But they've got nothing else to offer...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: But they've got nothing else to offer...
Except they will offer - nay, demand! - to take a good chunk of cash off you!
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I remember seeing bespoke financial packages (mainly bond, bill and other commercial paper valuation) being done on apple][ back in the day. It gave the desks some autonomy from the company mainframe and it's need for terminals (and dedicated teams of programmers on the end of the 'phone) and the PC was some way off yet.
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Ahhh... "bespoke". I haven't came across that term since my Project Management studies a few months back. I may be coming across it a lot more since I landed a federal (government) job as an IT Project Manager. Took me a couple of lookups to discern exactly how it applied to the business world. Pretty simple actually but still caught my eye because the word is very uncommon in South Georgia.
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for the record, it's not the iPhone. It's Micro$hit and Windows 11. I want to be blunt about this. Windows 11 hijacks things and moves it damn I don't know where.. I plugged my phone into my Windows 10 laptop, it mounted the iPhone like a device and I am now copying pictures from the past I had no idea I had.
I type this on my Windows 11 laptop - Windows 11 Professional I might add - and I still don't know where my phone copy went. <delete things="" not="" appropriate="" for="" younger="" ears="">
Irritated yes. Appalled? Exceedingly so. I feel a blog coming on.
Oh it gets better <edit>
Seems I can't scrub my iPhone like a folder, no, all of the folders under DCIM have some sort of protection (not compatible with Windows 10).
What a steaming pile of refuse.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 13-Nov-23 23:18pm.
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charlieg wrote: Today, it gets automatically uploaded to the cloud on my Windows Pro 11 laptop. directly from the phone, without getting a laptop involved.
FTFY.
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maybe so, maybe so. looking real hard at a $20 flip phone.
Meanwhile I have 8 emails from Microsoft telling me I am over "my" storage space. The saga continues... I'll keep this post going as troll bait  Maybe an article.
editorial note - all I wanted is to move my images from my phone (usb device) to my laptop. Why is that so hard?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 14-Nov-23 15:38pm.
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charlieg wrote: all I wanted is to move my images from my phone (usb device) to my laptop. Why is that so hard?
I don't find it hard. When I plug the phone for charging in the USB socket of my screen, the files on the phone pops up as another USB disk in Explorer. The memory card and 'Phone' appears as subdirectories, and I can (shift)drag&drop to (move/)copy files either way.
I can't see how it could be much simpler. It is just like any other 'Passport style' external USB disk, except that my phone charges at the same time.
I never installed any specific software for this functionality, neither on the phone nor on the PC side. Maybe, first time I plugged it in, the PC asked if I wanted to download drivers, and I answered Yes. It is so long ago that I don't remember.
My phone is a 2016 vintage Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. My PC is also 2016 vintage; it ran Windows 7 for a few years. Now it runs Windows 10 (and cannot run 11; TPM 2.0 is not available). I am 99.9% sure that file copying this way worked even with Win7 (how else did I get photos transferred to the PC? I never had any alternate solution!)
Of course: 'But it works on my PC!' doesn't solve your problem. It just demonstrates that the software do to it exists.
And then, ready to post this, as a last check I wind back to your initial post in this thread, to read that it used to work that way with your phone, too. You say that there is no way to stop the automatic copying. Does that really include Settings | Devices | AutoPlay and selecting from the dropdown list for 'Samsung Galaxy S7 edge' (replace phone model with whatever phone you have got)? On my PC, I see a menu that includes 'Import Photos and Videos', 'Take no action', 'Ask me every time', and a couple more. If I select the first entry, I would sort of expect it to behave the way you describe. Which alternative have you chosen on your PC? Are the alternatives very different in Win11?
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Yes, I agree, it should be as simple as a cut and paste. I did not fall off the truck recently. But, wait, there is more.
This all started with trying this on Windows 11. It's not the damn phone. It's Windows 11. Stay on topic. What I see on my laptop is that Microsoft has re-arranged the folders on Windows 11. On Windows 10, One drive personal is there, but it's not the default. Windows 11 makes it much more vague. Going through it now before too much adult drink is consumed.
Oh this gets sweet. Now my iPhone is sending me emails that my cloud storage is full.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My Huawei Android phones offer me to be recognized either as a thumb drive like device or a digital camera (or battery charging only, reverse charging, ...) when connected, beyond HiSuite, their phone manager software.
more details on MTP, PTP, mass storage on Android
Which cloud? Both OneDrive and Huawei Cloud can be configured to what save to the cloud.
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I running Win 11 (in a VM) and I don't have that problem with my phone. I manually copy photos from/to my phone all the time, no automatically uploading to the cloud. I do, however, have 'Phone Link' disabled in the Startup apps section in Task Manager. I've also got One Drive disable there too. I don't use the cloud.
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That might be the issue. The laptop(s) in question are sort of bastardized due to integration with a customer. I have to use certain s/w packages.
I'll keep digging and testing.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Okay, after prepping for Thanksgiving and feeding everyone, I sat back down to take a look at "my problem."
I have a Windows 10 Pro and a Windows 11 laptop. I first attempted the copy of my pictures to my Windows 11 pictures file. I thought that was reasonable. 1/2 way through the copy, everything went tits up. Both laptops started reporting disk full areas, you are out of storage, etc. The confusing part was my iPhone started doing it as well (but had nothing to do with the Windows issue).
After taking a few days off, and looking carefully, the helpful induhviduals at Microsoft moved the Personal one drive folder to the tp of the Windows Explorer. So, if you are accustomed to using your desktop on Windows 10, you might not even notice the change. Digging a little deeper, what I read is Microsoft is making a major push for people to use their network storage solution and are more than willing to elephant with your desktop to misdirect you.
Task 1: copy the photos from my phone to MY pictures folder on Windows 10.
Done.
Task 2: research how to remove this one drive crap from my Windows 11 machine.
In progress.
These are the sorts of changes that Ms*** like to push out and call it mandatory updates. What a joke.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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From CP newsletter.
Following article is odd. I didn't bother reading most of it because the initial part seems just silly.
Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org[^]
Following is from the top....
"Microsoft gets full access to mails, calendars and contacts!"
Anyone that knows how email works knows that the email server must have full access to the email itself. Actually it is very likely that two or more email servers will have access to it.
Even even one has not worked with a email server it would seem obvious that the server cannot deliver the email to someone else unless it actually has the email.
Absolute best one can hope for is that the company states they will not access it.
Only possible option otherwise would be if the originating user encrypted the email and the receiver (the person) decrypted it using a key that is only shared by both.
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The article is about the desktop client Outlook, not Outlook.com. The part that people are upset about is:
Quote: It says that non-Microsoft accounts are synchronised with the Microsoft cloud and that copies of "emails, calendars and contacts are therefore synchronised between your email provider and Microsoft data centres".
Which is not something that most other client-side email software does (to my knowledge). Granted, they do promise not to look at it, but Microsoft doesn't get a lot of "benefit of the doubt" from people these days.
TTFN - Kent
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