In the mean time I used to copy files with USB cable. Back in the days the phone SD card was automatically mounted as a new disk so I could automate the process with "robocopy". But ever since phones switched to MTP protocol I had no way to use batch files to copy new pictures. I guess you know the painful process of using Windows Exprorer. Mouse-oriented, choose the source folder (MTP is slow), select all files, copy, go to the destination, paste. Manual work. Programmers don't like repetitive manual work.
But then I discovered that "adb" allows to "pull" and "push" files to the device over MTP. Unfortunately it doesn't support copying whole folders. It's been several years until I discovered an "adb" command to list files on the Android device. Whow! No I can script it to copy whole folders and automatically skip files which have been already copied.
Here's the result. The script is written in PHP. You run it like this:
> php acf.php /sdcard/DCIM/100ANDRO/ ./100ANDRO/
It will read all the files in the "100ANDRO" folder on the connected device and copy missing files to the specified folder on the PC.
Requirements:
1. PHP installed.
2. Android SDK installed.
3. "USB debugging" enabled on the phone.
4. Download the script below and try.
All links contain the same source code:
http://demo.php-pastebin.com/VsY8J7m6
http://codepad.org/bYC3JLZ8
http://ideone.com/3lljIB
4. Download the script below and try.
All links contain the same source code:
http://demo.php-pastebin.com/VsY8J7m6
http://codepad.org/bYC3JLZ8
http://ideone.com/3lljIB
