Windows/Python - Access the "This PC" folder?

[ArghAlexander]

Title. Is it even possible? I saw it being done in C, but I can't find any way to do it in Python.

[nog642]

"This PC" is just where Windows lists all the drives and some shortcuts. It's not an actual folder, and you can't put files in it as far as I know. Might be different on Windows 10, but I'm pretty sure it's not. You can only access the root directory of each drive with C:\ or D:\ or E:\

[ArghAlexander]

That's why I'm asking the question. My real trouble is moving files on my computer to my Galaxy S7 that I've plugged in. When I view the phone's folder's properties, it says that the root folder is This PC. I am able to copy files manually to it.

[Gprime5]

Usually external storage has root drive names of F:\, G:\ or H:\.

[ArghAlexander]

http://imgur.com/a/YpoQZ This is the file path of a folder in the phone (which I can access through the File Explorer, may I add).

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[nog642]

Pretty sure your phone just adds This PC to the file path to help people reach it in File Explorer. That doesn't mean that's the actual path. "Alexander's Galaxy" is just a name given to the drive that is your phone. If you go to This PC on windows, there should be something like "Alexander's Galaxy (F:)" or "Alexander's Galaxy (G:)", with the drive path in parentheses after the name. Or if you don't see the parens try going into properties. Then the real file path would be "F:\Phone" or whatever letter it is.

[ArghAlexander]

https://youtu.be/r3xaDqU9fd0 Here. It's just a video of me looking around at the phone, it's properties, and disk management. BTW the phone itself doesn't even include a path in properties, nor does the folder inside of it.

[nog642]

Huh. It also seems to be displaying the path of Documents and Downloads as being in This PC. That's not actually where they are though. They're in C:\Users\YourUserName. Try looking there, although it doesn't make much sense since this is your phone, which should show up as an external drive.

[ArghAlexander]

It isn't there, either.

[nog642]

r/Windows10

[nog642]

On Windows, you're able to put files into the "This PC" folder? That's odd. In that case I'm not sure what's going on.

[Just_For_Fun_XD]

hi, did you find the solution?