View hidden Android folders in Windows?

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How do you view hidden .folders which are on the phone when its plugged into the PC?

My Samsung phone is full and I've located the offending folder, it comes with the Camera360 app and is called .sandbox in the TempData folder on the device. There are 2Gb of images in there that I want to take off the phone.

Trouble is I cant see this folder when plugged into the PC. Tried USB debug mode, tried Windows explorer "view hidden files", and unchecked "hide protected operating system files", tried showing hidden files in the Android file manager, tried copying the folder to the SD card but still cant see it in Windows.

Any ideas?
 
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You can't view or access hidden Android folders without having Root Access... That's why some people like to root their phones... so they can gain access to "system" folders.

If you have images... just use your gallery app and delete from there... since it will display all images found on your device.
 
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The phone is rooted and I can see the folder on the phone but not on the PC in Windows.

It is a TempData hidden folder called .sandbox so it will not open in Gallery either.

I just want to move it to the desktop to decide which images to keep.
 
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If you copy the folder to the SDCard and remove the dot it doesn't show in Windows?

ADB commands can be issued through the command line. This is something you should learn a little about if you have a rooted phone. With debugging turnned on you can pull or push anything to the phone. So for example hooked to the PC (assuming you have ADB installed, Android SDK for Windows)

adb pull /sdcard/FolderYouRenamed/ C:\Users\You\Deskop\FolderWhereyouWant\

I've found in many cases, ADB is the quickest most reliable way to transfer things. Sometimes Windows is a PITA though with ADB. It's almost quicker to boot into say Linux Mint, open up Synaptic and install ADB real quick, then do what you need. You can write to your Windows drive in Linux so you can move things over while running from the USB.
 
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Nope, copying and renaming does nothing, still cant see it.

Done a little research into the app and it seems that it creates 3 copies of every image in this sandbox folder and there is no way to make it save to SD card.

Since there is no way to view the folder off the phone I deleted it and uninstalled the app, will use the native camera instead!
 
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