The photos of family and friends that circulate on WhatsApp have found a good place to stay safe in apps like Google Photos, which store them automatically on the Internet to free up space on the terminal later. However, videos tend to take up more space, so they are more cumbersome to manage and slower. Perhaps for this reason, instead of saving them directly to Google Photos, it is best to make a dump from time to time of all these contents to a folder on your computerYou know how to do it? Then follow these steps if you have a terminal Android
The first thing to take into account is to have all the elements to make this backup or dump. On one side is the computer, which can be Windows or Mac, with any version of these operating systems. On the other side is the device Android, fully operational. Finally, you need a USB cable to connect your computer and mobile. There are other methods to take files from the mobile to the computer without the need for cables, such as using Internet storage services such as Dropbox However, when it comes to videos, which take up a lot of space, the most agile option and the one that requires the least Internet data (none actually) is the cable one
It is enough to have the computer and the mobile turned on and connect them using the USB cable At this moment, the mobile reacts, showing on the screen connection options Thus, it is possible to select use the mobile as a multimedia device to transfer files as if it were a hard disk connected to the computer (option to be selected), use it in mode to share only photos , or load only mode When selecting the first option we will see that now it is the computer that reacts.
At that moment the computer screen should announce the connection of an external storage device or the connection of a mobileIn either case, it is possible to open it as if it were any folder. As if it were a flash drive. In this way you can navigate the folders and files stored within the mobile
Thus, it is necessary to scrutinize the folders until you come across the one for WhatsApp, which is found as soon as you access the terminal folder. In turn, WhatsApp has different sections to collect photos, backup copies, audios, and other content. What we are looking for, the videos, are in the folder Media It is in this place where we find WhatsApp Video , which collects both received and sent videos (the latter are inside the Sent folder).
In this way, the only thing left is to either access the folder and pick up the specific videos that you want to store outside from the mobile, or or copy the entire WhatsApp folder Video using the right mouse button and the Copy option Then, just go to one of the folders on your computer, either the Desktop or Documents , or where the user prefers, press the right mouse button and select the option Paste
After a while, depending on the number of videos to be saved, the process ends, duplicating the received videos by WhatsApp on the mobile directly in the selected computer folderSomething that will allow us to later delete them from the terminal to recover the space they occupied, knowing that there is a copy on our computer. Or simply have a copy safely outside the terminal and without taking these videos to the cloud.
