“Please reconnect your device and try again. A notification has been sent requesting you to allow Microsoft Photos to access and import your photos”
Anyone have this result trying to transfer photos from phone to pc?
I never let my windows computer talk with my phone…even before with my old phones. I always stored my pics/documents etc.. on the sd card in my phone and then put the sd card in the computer and did a simple move/copy to a folder I created on the computer. I would be weary of doing that now if you are windows 11. copilot ai will copy it all and send it to the cloud. I switched to linux about a year ago and am very comfortable connecting phone to computer if need be.
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Absolutely!! 
Yep - you don’t really want anything Microsoft touching your privacy phone, nor it’s contents (unless you don’t care where the latter ends up).
Indeed - Linux is really the only viable long term solution for now if you don’t want to undo any privacy efforts on your phone by connecting it to a compromised computer or apps like Windows/Microsoft or macOS/iCloud/etc…
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I’m still on windows 10. Thanks for your response.
Ah, well thats something…
A couple of things:
- You did remember to set USB to data transfer mode on the phone after you connected it to the PC?
- I think that Microsoft Photos app will still be possibly problematic - I’d suggest if you can access the phone storage just in Windows Explorer you just manually copy the images to a temporary folder (e.g. \downloads\photos ) then you can just have your MS Photos App hoover them up from that location locally…
P.S. The photos may be in a different location depending on what camera app you are using too (e.g. \DCIM\OpenCamera or \DCIM\ Fossify etc - or possibly even in a subfolder of \Pictures - not simply \DCIM).
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Heres a video on how to avoid ‘windows default folders’ .
Also, there are all kinds of you tube videos for windose tips for disabling co-pilot.
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