I am using Windows 10, build 19043.1415 and my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21 with Android 12.
I have a music collection of 20k+ songs stored on my desktop system’s local drive, and have also copied the whole collection to my phone’s internal storage using a simple drag-and-drop operation in File Explorer.
I occasionally make changes in the desktop copy of the library, which may include changing, adding, or deleting files. I want to be able to plug my phone into my desktop system and sync all of those changes from the desktop to the phone without having to delete and recopy the entire collection. I’ve tried to use Robocopy and WinMerge to do this, but they don’t recognize the directory structure of the phone since I can’t mount it as a drive. It’s my understanding that this is caused by Android no longer supporting the USB Mass Storage Class protocol, and only supporting MTP or PTP.
I don’t want to root my phone and risk voiding warranty.
How can I make the directory structure on my phone visible to any desktop tool or scriptable interface?
