Taking another kick at the cat.

[Camper6]

I haven't given up yet trying to post a picture from my desktop to my camera.

I get this far but when I'm trying to paste the "Paste" is greyed out.

[Dave]

I haven't given up yet trying to post a picture from my desktop to my camera.

I get this far but when I'm trying to paste the "Paste" is greyed out.

That doesn't look right with the directories Camper. You seem to have 2 DCIM folders one is expanded...that's the bottom one and the top one isn't but it's showing the folder inside 'Camera' and as it's highlighted I'm guessing that the pictures on the right side are what's in that folder.

It looks like you're using Windows XP; is that right? If so I wonder if the operating system is not new enough to allow you to do what you want to do, if you have a phone that's only a few years old then the two might not be compatible for transfers from each other.

I might try and replicate that in a virtual machine, I think I have a copy of XP somewhere

You also say 'I haven't given up yet trying to post a picture from my desktop to my camera.' is that correct that you're trying to get images from the PC onto the phone. If so then the right side needs to be showing the pictures you want to move. Go the the PC folder that has the pictures. Then single click on a picture and try to drag it to the camera folder you see on the left side.

[Camper6]

Kind of weird.  It might be the cell phone setup with the transfer of images and cable connection.

[Dave]

Kind of weird.  It might be the cell phone setup with the transfer of images and cable connection.

Well it's strange you should reply now as I have been messing about with XP on a VM and no matter what I do I can only install the phone as a camera. It will not show folders on the phone at all. I've tried every conceivable way to get it to work but it doesn't. I've installed Samsung (that's the make of my phone) USB drivers but still wont work

What I'm going to do next is install Windows 7 on a VM and see if it works on that.

At this moment Camper I think it's possible the XP system is too old to connect to the phone correctly, XP was released in 2001 so it's very old as far as an OS is concerned

[Camper6]

Thanks for the interest.  It's probably the Windows XP.  I couldn't upgrade my PC to Windows 7 from XP because my computer didn't have enough memory.  I just kept plugging along and now I'm finding people with interest on old computers with XP and writing software for it.  There's even an new browser designed for XP. It's named My Pal.  Someone also wrote an ad blocker for Mozilla Firefox and it works as well.
 
I also use a Samsung 10" tablet and an older Ipad given to me.  Apple is hopeless.  If you don't have the current operating system you can't download anything from the Apple store.

They force you to buy a new Ipad.
I bought my son a Commodore Pet when he was still in grade school.  He graduated from university with a degree in Computer Science. He works in the U.S. and makes a good buck.
He has no interest in old stuff and just tells me that it's too frustrating trying to fix stuff.

We have a lot of immigrants from India now and they are pretty clever with computers.

[Dave]

OK I've manged to install Windows 7 on a VM on my spare laptop and get a Nokia phone to connect and view all files on the main storage and the Micro SD card. The Samsung S20 would not stay connected so it must be the phone and associated drivers that are at fault as any drivers I installed wouldn't work even after forcing the install.

I'm going to try and install XP on the same machine and see if the Nokia connects with that. If it does then will definitely be the Samsung phone and drivers that are at fault here

[Camper6]

I believe you are right.  It's the phone.  The connection works but only one way, from the phone to the computer. I guess the thinking goes, why would you want to send a photo to your phone?

[Dave]

I believe you are right.  It's the phone.  The connection works but only one way, from the phone to the computer. I guess the thinking goes, why would you want to send a photo to your phone?

I've started an XP install on the VM..for somecreason it's taking hours. I'll test my theory about Samsung and Nokia later.