PahtRequester and WP8 problem

[utopiomania]

Hi, I have used a Pure Basic home made program to d/l videos and images from my Phones
and cameras for years, but it doesn't work With my New Lumia 1020 running WP8.1.

The phone shows up in Windows Explorer, but has no drive letter. The program can not
detect it automatically as a mass Storage Device, and if I use the PathRequester in the
program and navigate down to the Pictures folder, it Returns a backslash for the path..

whats up With this file system?

[deesko]

I don't know that specific model, but I'm sure it uses the MTP protocol to connect do computers.

You should read more about it here: Media Transfer Protocol, specially the DRAWBACKS section.

I don't think you'll be able to connect to it using PureBasic programs, but I may be wrong.

[utopiomania]

I have a sinking feeling you are right. Thanks for the link. In the meantime I use Windows Explorer to
copy the files to a folder on my desktop and point my program to it to copy and rename them.
Microsoft = idiots.
Edit. WP8.1 is the best phone UI I've seen so far, my last was Android 4.4.2, so they might not
be idiots exactly, but in some areas, they are.