Per George Fields:
After plugging my phone USB into computer, and changing settings to
transfer files from phone to computer, instead of charging, there
doesn't seem to be a way to get my file managers on either one to see
the other, and initiate a transfer.

Can someone tell me how to do this?

If your phone is Android and your computer runs Windows 7, what I do
might work for you:

- Open up MyComputer, right-click the drive you want to transfer to and
choose Share With | Advanced sharing | Advanced Sharing and check the
"Share this folder" box.

- Still in the "Share this folder" tab, Click "Add, and specify a name
that makes sense to you.

- Click "Permissions", select "Everyone" and check Allow | Full Control
That will allow access to that drive across your LAN/WiFi.

- Greater Minds Than Mine will chime in on the niceties of different
permissions and subfolders, but that's the simple version.

- On your Android device, install the X-Plore file manager.

- Under the LAN heading, click "+ Add Server" and enter whatever
makes sense to you under "Label" and then enter either the pc's
name as it appears on the LAN or it's IP address under "Server:"...
then fill in your Windows login name/PW under Username:" and
"Password:"

- With all that in place, you should be able to bring up that drive
on your PC by clicking the LAN entry in X-Plore's list.

- Note that X-Plore has a split screen: so you can bring up
two file locations simultaneously.

- In the lefthand split, navigate to LAN | (your PC) | (the
drive you shared).

- In the righthand split, navigate to the files you want to transfer,
select them, and click either "Copy" or "Move" and.... Bingo!...

Of course, this is all happening over your WiFi connection: no
USB cable needed.

It may sound convoluted upon reading, but once you get it set up,
a given file transfer is dead simple, quick, and easy - especially
if you go the extra mile and add a LAN entry that points directly to the
folder you usually transfer to instead of just the PC.

The biggest hassle for me is Android apps in general being really weak
in telling the user where files are. Typically they say "Downloaded"
and leave it on the user to figure out where the file was downloaded to.

X-Plore's UI is not what I would call intuitive - but once you get the
hang of it, it's really quick and easy to use.
--
Pete Cresswell