Solved Using new Samsung A54 as USB drive

I get a new phone only every 4 or 5 years, so I forget all the particulars of connecting them to my PC as a USB device.

I have a new Samsung A54 and need to use it as a USB drive. Don't want to have it automatically sync with Windows Phone Link when connected or any of that kind of stuff, just let me either use Explorer or FreeFileSync with it acting as a USB drive.

A week or so ago, I set up a FFS batch job for it and then backed it up. Just now, I plugged it in. To be completely honest, there was a notification from Windows which I clicked and suspect that I changed some setting on the PC, because now FFS can't find the phone. Of course, when I unplug and replug it now, the Windows notification doesn't pop up.

FWIW, I never get a notification when my old phone is plugged in, just the "USB device connecting" sound. And it works fine with both Explorer and FreeFileSync.

Now, even though I ran the FFS job previously, it can't find the target folders on the new phone. Puzzling thing is that Explorer finds those same folders just fine and can use it correctly as a USB drive, copying files and that sort of thing.

FreeFileSync still works just fine with my other phone, not to mention all my other USB drives and memory sticks.

Ideas, anyone?

Buddy said:

Ideas, anyone?

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If you swipe the notification panel down, is there any pertaining notifications?

@Edwin Thanks for responding. Yeah, I get that notification on the phone when I plug it into the USB cable. And that's part of why I kept suspecting the PC instead of the phone.

I kept stewing over the fact that Explorer could see the phone, copy files from it to the computer, and so on. But not FreeFileSync. Finally, I just created a new backup definition in FreeFileSync. Et voila, it works. Disconnect phone, reconnect, it still works. Beats me how, but FFS appears to have gotten itself wadded up. Glad it was that easy.