How To Transfer Files Between Your Android Tablet and Mac
May 14, 2011 in Android Basics, Android How To's, Featured, How To's, Video
Have a Motorola Xoom, Asus Transformer, or any other Android Honeycomb tablet, but also have a Mac? Having an issue with getting them to play nice with each other? Well, one thing you may have noticed is that when you plug it in and try to mount the storage/sd card, so you can transfer files to it, it doesn’t let you.This is because, that unlike with a PC, the storage isn’t automatically detected on a Honeycomb tablet when using a Mac. Don’t worry though, there is a way to fix it. Here’s how.
1. Head here to download the Android File Transfer program and save it to your computer.Android File Transfer Program
2. Double click the .dmg file
3. Drag the Android File Transfer application into the Applications folder.
4. Now, plug in the Android Tablet via USB cable to your Mac.
5. The first time you connect your device via USB you will have to manually open the Android File Transfer application (after that, it will automatically open whenever you plug it in).
6. You will then be greeted by your Android Tablet’s file system and can now drag and drop files back and forth between them up to 4GB at a time. Enjoy!
Gary Lister said on May 14, 2011
I’ve just purchased a Motorola XOOM and am trying to connect it to my Mac. I’ve gone to the link above to download the androidfiletransfer.dmg but nothing downloads. The link to the file after you click Android’s green ‘Download Now’ button is apparently fubar. Is there another place to get this much needed file? Can I get it from you? The XOOM might be headed back for an iPad2 exchange — more than likely what I should’ve purchased in the first place.
ash said on May 16, 2011
same for me, i have been sucked with this link for 2 hrs, no hope!!!! any alternatives?
Tonyalewis2006 said on December 24, 2011
i followed instructions my deviced is connected however I get the message that no android device found .. I have a sylvania 7 in min tablet.
Mabovitch said on May 31, 2011
Same same with Acer Iconia Tab A500 : no work !!!!!!!!!
Mahmoud Alqabandi said on July 29, 2011
now with Mac OS Lion , its not working
Flyffof said on August 5, 2011
Android device not found
junelian said on August 27, 2011
I have Mac OS Lion and it actually worked for me! I followed the instructions just as directed so I don’t know why it wouldn’t work for anybody else. Btw, I have the Asus Transformer TF101 32GB and I used Mozilla Firefox to download the app.
Thanks for the advice!
anon in Sydney said on February 2, 2012
a500 and iMac. worked perfectly immediately. thanks,
no work! said on May 7, 2012
device not found
doesn't work! said on May 8, 2012
no android device found