Syncing burst photo files from mtp to Windows? File size error?

Posts: 8 · pkiff 8 Sep 2019, 16:10

I'm trying to sync photos from an SD card on my Android cellphone over to a standard Windows NTFS drive.
The phone is connected via USB cable and I've selected "Transfer files" in the drop-down Android menu on my phone for "Use USB to".

Syncing works great, except for photos that are part of a "BURST" collection of photos. These are files that are a group of photos taken in a burst on my phone and saved together. Android does something weird to make them appear as a single file with a selected "COVER_TOP" photo, even though there are a series of photos stored in the burst. I don't know how this all works in the file system, but regardless, when I use FFS to "Update" the Windows drive with my latest additions, I get an error for each BURST file that says unexpected end of stream.

I can manually copy the files over to the drive. Then when I use FFS, it reports a conflict: "Files have the same date but a different size".

Is there a way around these errors with FFS? Maybe I can store files differently on my phone? Or connect differently? Or just avoid syncing BURST photo files?

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 8 Sep 2019, 16:16

Sounds like the same issue, which I consider an Android bug (WPD_OBJECT_SIZE != actual stream size):
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Posts: 8 · pkiff 8 Sep 2019, 16:32

OK, thanks. Yes, that appears to be the same issue.