I'm kind of new at CMD so please go easy on me. I am trying to copy files from my mobile phone via robocopy in CMD as the regular copy/paste doesn't support some of the features of robocopy I'd like to use. Anyway, the problem is that upon inspecting the path to the phone in file explorer I get THIS PC/[Name of phone]. Robocopy does not recognize anything under THIS PC as a valid path. How do I get the real path of the phone through CMD?
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THIS PC is not the actual path, it's just a Windows thing. If Windows has mounted your PC as a drive, you can use the path (i.e. F:\your\path).
However, if your phone is connecting via MTP, it will be much more difficult. The short answer is that you can't.
How do I access MTP devices on the command line in Windows?
2In cmd, just remove "this pc". Also, if your phone drive has spaces between words, remove them. Example: "phone phone", if it is like this, then rename it to "phonephone" and it will work. The cmd doesn't recognize spaces. You can rename it in file explorer. Right click the phone drive and rename it.
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