If you're a fan of sleek, powerful computers and highly-customizable smartphones, then you probably own a Mac and an Android device. But the downside to this glorious hardware pairing is that it can be hard to get the software on the two devices to play nice together. Previously, the best way to transfer files from an Android phone to a MacBook or an iMac was to use Google's app for OS X. But this app has a bare-bones interface, and it's extremely lacking in features. Well, the development team at has the perfect Android File Transfer alternative. Their Mac app sports a beautiful, native interface, while giving you the ability to drag and drop files from your phone to your computer, as well as perform batch import and export operations, so I'll show you how to set it up below. Once you've done that, go ahead and launch HandShaker, and you'll be asked if you'd like to open this app automatically in the future.
Transfer Files Between Your Phone and a Computer Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ User Guide You are here: Set Up Your Device > Assemble Your Device > Transfer Data from Your Old Device. The Samsung Smart Switch Mobile app allows users to easily transfer content (contacts, photos, music, notes, etc.) from an old phone to a new Samsung Galaxy device. Samsung Smart Switch for Mac. Basic content is transferred first and larger files are transferred later.
This will make HandShaker open immediately after you plug any Android device into your Mac, so go ahead and click 'Launch Automatically' here. We recommend uninstalling the old Android File Transfer app at this time to avoid any conflicts. Next, you'll see a screen prompting you to enable USB debugging on your Android device.
Leave HandShaker on this screen, then grab your Android phone or tablet to do a bit of setup. With everything set up now, give HandShaker a moment to finalize initial setup, and make sure to leave your phone connected to the computer. Step 3: Browse Your Phone's Storage on Your Mac At this point, you should be greeted by HandShaker's main menu. It's an intuitive interface, complete with thumbnails for all of the pictures that are stored on your phone.
If you'd rather see different types of media, you can use the navigation menu on the left to browse by Music or Video as well, and the interface in these menus looks just as nice. Overall, it's a great alternative to Android File Transfer, to the point where HandShaker is better in almost every way. This app lasted all of 5 minutes on my computer/phone, and I was gladly reinstalling AFT. It may be useful for moving files from an Android device to the Mac, but going the other way around? AFT is more powerful. I want you to think about that for a second: a v1.0 app that hasn't been updated since 2012 is still superior to an app that was in v2.0.2 in late December 2016. Take your time.
Let that sink in. In the 'Music' section of the app, you can't delete music folders, nor can you drag them from the Finder to the app. If you do, you get an error message: 'Cannot found (sic) audio files in transfer path.' You have to do that instead in the 'Files' section. And the FAIL doesn't stop there: anything you move over in the 'Files' section? It's going directly to your device. You can't even see your memory card there.
If you want your files on your card and not your device's internal storage? You're going to have to find your device's file manager and do it there.
Good ghod, even AFT can do that much. Smartisan had one job. One job: give us an interface for our Android devices that's much more robust and Finder-like. Enough so that we might be able to forgive Android for not letting us just mount the bloody device and memory card directly in the Finder, like we were once able to do. And Smartisan still couldn't manage that much, not even in v2.0.2.
A pretty interface is worthless if the functionality and UX is useless. There's also no mention here that your phone (or at least some, like the S8) will need a helper app in order to connect. Which may or may not be downloadable via their poorly connected, 3rd party source for sideloading (which is almost always a bad idea from a security point of view.) It is also worth mentioning that this 3rd party source is also, unsurprisingly, in our firewall appliance's blacklist for multiple malicious flags.
And last but not least, this macos app only has 28 reviews, 16 of which are 1 to 2 stars. And in my opinion, the 5 star ratings read very much like paid reviews. Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with what works.
Step 1: Delete this WRONG artcle & make up mind: either Gadgehtacks or Wonderhow? It seems not only the so highly praised 'Smartisan' app HandShaker is useless, with apparently not having one happy user ( I luckily read the comments and then decided NOT to try it). I am further of the opinion that the author Mr Dallas Thomas should realise that the app is crap (based on user experience) and either rewrite his article and point to something better, or then simply delete it. Leaving this 'BAD advice online is definitely a pain for many people (like me). But it seems the entire site (gadgethacks.com) is rather weird! When singing up to write this comment, you receive an email from a totally different domain (wonderhowto.com) w/o any remarks that Gadgethacks and the 'Wonder.' Belong together!!?!?!
I slowly begin to understand why Mr Dallas has difficulties judging!:-) Reply.
How to Transfer and Backup Samsung Galaxy S8 Music to Mac You probably want to transfer music files on your Samsung Galaxy S8 to Macbook or iMac for backup, just in case of loss of data. Or just want to sync Samsung Galaxy S8 Music to your Mac computer for enjoying. Here we share an useful and easy way to help you transfer or backup Samsung Galaxy S8 music to your Macbook or iMac. Is a professional media transfer between Android devices to Mac OS, with which all your songs, audios, albums will get transferred and backup from Samsung Galaxy S8 to Mac computer. What's more, other important data like contacts, messages, call logs, bookmarks, photos, videos, apps, notes, ebooks etc also can be transferred or backup effectively. How to Backup Music Files from Samsung Galaxy S8 on Mac?
Download and install on Mac computer (Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 or 10.12). Then launch it and connect Samsung Galaxy S8 to Mac with USB cable.
Note: If you have any problem on device detection, please click for help. After successfully connection, there are 4 modules popping up automatically, click Backup Your Phone and tick Music selection from the middle checkbox. Here you can choose the backup path on Mac you prefer. Then click Start Copy button and a progress bar will pop up automatically to show the transferring process. After few seconds, all of your music from Samsung will be saved on Mac.
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