We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. From time to time, you may need to transfer files between Windows PCs — whether it's to move documents between work computers, share photos ...

Are you trying to transfer files from your Android device to a Windows computer? This is not something most of us do very commonly, but when it’s needed, trying to figure out how to transfer files ...

Drag the files into a folder on your hard drive or Option drag (e.g. copy) them to your desktop. Does that work? I suspect you are dragging them to your desktop, and the machine thinks you are trying ...