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Best method to transfer large file from android phone to computer?
If your Android phone supports an external SD card, you can use it as an intermediary storage device for large file transfers. First, move the large files from your phone’s internal storage to the SD card. Then, remove the SD card from your phone, insert it into a card reader connected to your PC, and copy the files.
To transfer large file from android phone to PC, please first transfer files to your SD card using a file manager app on your phone. Insert the SD card into a card reader on your computer and move the files.
I have used this method. If the phone is really full, or if the folder has a large number of files (like my whatsapp images folder with 55.000) the file manager will crash before you have a chance to do the copy. AirDroid is good too, but in this particular case I ended up with a broken 20 GB .zip file. For smaller things, it is great.
I managed to copy such amount of data using an FTP Server app on the phone + a client like FileZilla on the PC. It was the only combination that did not crash here.