Access files from pc's sd card reader?
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Transferring large amounts of data over wifi for me is painful compared to through my card reader. Is anyone aware of any free third party options that will allow this for retropie files? It looks like Paragon has a pay option that works.
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If you have a spare USB stick, put a bootable Linux system like Ubuntu on it, boot your PC from the stick, and transfer the files using its so-called "live system".
See https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows for instructions how to create the bootable stick in Windows, and https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install how to boot your PC into its live system.
Background: The live Linux should be able to write to your Windows partitions out of the box, whereas Windows can't read the Linux file system on your RetroPie card without third party software.
As always, be sure to backup any important data on your PC drive(s) before doing something with your PC that you never did before! Although Ubuntu's live image is known to be safe for many years, accidents or user mistakes can always happen.
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