How to transfer files onto it via Mac?

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With my HTC Inspire 4G I plug in the USB cable and it pops up as a drive to transfer files onto (ie movies), however with the galaxy tab 10.1 it doesn't. I rooted it on a windows machine, so wondering how to make it a USB drive when I plug in, so I can transfer movies and files from my Mac.

Anyone?

It doesn't mount as a USB drive on a Mac - you have to use this utility to put files on the device.

Apparently I'm too new auser to post a link so I'll write it out:

android dot com forward-slash filetransfer

Originally Posted by yay pie

It doesn't mount as a USB drive on a Mac - you have to use this utility to put files on the device.

Apparently I'm too new auser to post a link so I'll write it out:

android dot com forward-slash filetransfer

good find with the app, but it doesn't work. when I plug in it just says "No Android device found" and on the tablet it says Connected - Press home button to quit keys... but it doesn't mount a drive or open up file transfer box. Am I missing something?

Same here - AFT doesn't work on Snow Leopard, much less Lion. Please tell me that you, or someone else has discovered a solution since this post three months ago?

I believe there is a thread on this in the development section. But to answer your question anyways, you simply need to go to Samsung's support website and after entering your product model, go to the downloads section and install the Kies software for Mac. Unfortunately you must use this version of Kies since the GT 10.1 can't be mounted as mass storage on Macs.

Guys, use Websharing. Look for it in the market. Basically turns Tab into a web server on the network accessible via any web browser.

That's what I use. Android File Transfer (AFT) does not work, and Apple broke/changed something in their AFP. I used to use the LAN feature in Estrongs until Lion came out and borked that.

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AFT will not work because it is built using a library of libmtp that is too old for the Galaxy Tab. Hopefully Google will update it soon to support the Galaxy Tab.

I tried to compile libmtp to support it, but couldn't get it to work. I'll try again when I'm not busy and see what happens.

In the meantime, you can use Samsung Kies software, or DDMS if you have the android SDK

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Not a mac guy but had the same problem on my pc. Ended up installing Remote Web Desktop (Smartdog studio) from android marketplace on the tab. It's free. Then used filezilla (or any other ftp program) from my pc. Worked great, so no more worries about USB connectivity.

I recently bought a tab 8.9 and I was very disappointed by this problem. I'm going through FTP right now.

Is it possible to enable normal file transfer if I root my tablet?

theres a way..but u need to have ADB ..also need to be home to let u know..
there is this ADB tool app that u run and it will detect ur tab..i got mine detected mine is 10.1