I'm having a lot of problems with this, and not found any kind of resolution in the last 2 years.
I would simply like to get the contents of an entire folder on my Pixel 7 Pro and move them to my Windows PC. I find various sites like this mention it, but in a really awful and non-working way.
Other sites just do variations of the above.
The problem is that my Pixel is full, 253 GB used of 256 GB. All of my personal photos and videos are archived in Google Photos, so I now want to move 80 GB of videos and photos from my Pixel phone to my Windows PC. I don't really mind how.
My experiences with the File Transfer setting in Android are awful: I enable this setting, then open Windows Explorer and navigate into the phone and then open another window in the empty folder on my PC that I want to move to. In Windows Explorer looking the Pixel folder, I do CTRL+A and then CTRL+X to cut the files, then go to the Windows folder and do CTRL+V. It copies a lot of files, but it does not move the files, and the usage on the Pixel is unchanged. Then, it always crashes after a while, so I'm left with a completely broken situation.
Ideally, I'd like to mount the Pixel as an external drive (say X:) and just go into it and robocopy from there to the Windows PC (I get that it's some kind of Linux filesystem, but isn't there a way to just get the Pixel to completely synchronise a folder to my Windows PC?)