Xperia 5ii how to backup photos and videos to PC?

[Profusionuk]

Does anyone know the easiest way to backup photos and videos from 5ii to PC? I literally have no internal space left on the phone and memory card.

I do have Google Drive and Google Photos apps backed up with my photos and videos but I always like to backup on to my PC too with original video and image resolution. The Sony Companion software doesn't allow me to backup from my phone and my PC also can't find my phone when I plug into a USB wire. 

Thanks any help appreciated.

[Marino.Manolo]

An idea:

If you have an SD Card Slot into PC, you can use an SD Card Adapter (from microSD) for fisically insert the microSD in your PC and transfer your photos.

[Profusionuk]

Thank you for the solution for the SD card I have an SD card slot on my PC.

Sorry I should have said I know how to transfer photos and videos on my SD card to PC. I just don't know how to transfer photos and videos from the Internal Storage on the phone as I can't transfer to my SD card as it's already at full capacity.

[Marino.Manolo]

You can't transfer to SD Card after backup from SD to PC and the SD's contents erase?

[Strampke]

Connect your device with usb cable to pc.

Watch smartphone screen to allow access.

Then Windows explorer shows you the content of the internal memory as well as SD.

Find DCIM, then 100ANDRO where your pictures are located.

[Profusionuk1]

My SD card stopped showing up on my PC when I tried again so couldn't transfer to SD card

[Profusionuk1]

Thank you I will give it a try if I can bring my phone back from being dead all of a sudden! 

[Preytheon]

If you get the phone working again, then I've always preferred Dropbox.... so you can see the photo's appear online and then you have a few choices:

1) I used to have that Dropbox sync'd to a DropBox folder on a large local drive on the local PC too - which is great for for faster searching and browsing...

2) a Diskstation running the Synology CloudSync app, which logs into a Dropbox and keeps another copy on the local NAS and auto-reindexes this.

I only really went for option #2 as the DropBox selective folder sync feature wasn't available when I set this up a few years ago.... and I have my home CCTV on immediate cloud-sync up to DropBox, so it was churning away on the PC a LOT, especially if they PC had been off for a few days, suddenly it would try to sync hundreds of Gb!

EDIT:

Option #1 can be used with DropboxFree - and it takes a little more effort (or a script), but you could manually move the files out of DropBox on the PC to local storage every few weeks/months.... pretty easy to setup a scheduled task on the local PC, if you know what you're doing.

Option #2 would need a Dropbox/Onedrive subscription (~£7-£8 pcm)...

I used to use Option #1 and copy it to to a local NAS box, but remember even mirrored NAS is still local storage - NOT a proper backup: I had one of those go "pop" a few years ago (whole box + two mirrored drives all died with a power spike)... I got VERY lucky, was able to find the same hardrive somewhere else and move the control boards over and the drive was able to work... then managed to find a Linux distro that had had a compatible file system (with the QNAP NAS).... after that it took quite literally a few weeks of an old laptop churning away at sub-USB1 speeds, copying ~200Gb of photos over onto a drive caddy. I'm semi-technical and fairly brave, but let's say I learned a lot over a couple of months!

Either way, the solution works well for low maintenance transfers (to local PC and cloud).

If you can't get the phone working - try a few different card readers on different PC's - it could just be a USB driver update that's messed it up and I do find some of those card readers just stop working after time.

One other thought: have you tried firing up the phone WITHOUT the SD card? Probably not something you want to think about, but the reason why the phone isn't powering on might be due to a faulty SD card?

[Profusionuk]

Thank you so much for those tips i think I will have to use dropbox to backup.

I'm on my old HTC phone right now as my Xperia just won't turn on and also my desktop PC monitor screen is deciding not to work so can't get onto my computer to try and repair my phone with Sony Companion! Not a brilliant time with everything not deciding to work all of a sudden. I don't have any other computers unfortunately to try different card readers.

I have tried without my SD card and restart my Xperia phone but my phone is still not turning on. I'll have to try to see if my PC monitor works and try on PC if not i guess I will have to send my phone to Sony.

Thank you so much for all the suggestions.