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Cross Device Service seems to leak memory when transferring a lot of files over the air
I recently got a new phone that allowed me to use the new Phone Link feature where I can access my phone's files from File Explorer. I decided to try copying my entire music library to my phone using this. Turns out it doesn't work very well, as it seems to stall randomly or even disconnect. Then when I woke up this morning my laptop never went to sleep and was behaving really slow, and I found this in Task Manager. Only a handful of files bothered to move over, lol.
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When you use Phone Link to access your phone's files through File Explorer, Windows is not performing a normal file copy. Instead, it's using a protocol called MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) over a network connection. MTP was designed for small batches of photos, not for transferring thousands of music files.
