Everything and "files in the phone"

[ChrisGreaves]

I read Everything doesn't look up files in phone and am now a Newbie at locating files on smart phones with a set of questions.
I have read and followed the instructions from Void with success.
I read the section Virtual Folder Indexing and here I am:-
The search returns me a File List (I used "Ext:MP3" to reduce the number of results; less scrolling)

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Question 1: Is my thinking correct? In the Folders pane it seems to me that "This" sorts after a folder on drive L: and before a folder on drive V:. because "T" sorts between "L" and "V". My smart phone folders will appear according to the Name of the Smart phone itself.

Question 2: Is my thinking correct? My theory is that any operation I choose to build based on a file list should now work as I have come to expect; for example I can export a File List in CSV format and analyze that File List in a spreadsheet processor.

Question 3: Is my thinking correct? My theory is that once I have identified files in the Results List, I still cannot write a BATch/Script file to (say) copy files FROM the phone TO the laptop, because in no way have I mapped a phone folder to a drive letter (e.g."I:" for the Internal phone drive and "S:" for the SD card in the phone)

In all of this I have no intention of editing files that are stored on the phone, or copying files to the phone; although I DO want to batch process to accumulate Podcast files, music files, downloaded files, and camera files from the phone to the laptop on a regular basis.

Thank you
Chris

[void]

Question 1: Is my thinking correct? In the Folders pane it seems to me that "This" sorts after a folder on drive L: and before a folder on drive V:. because "T" sorts between "L" and "V". My smart phone folders will appear according to the Name of the Smart phone itself.

"This PC" will appear between "L:\" and "V:\" because folder paths are alphabetically sorted.
Everything will not use the name of the smart phone, it will use the full path: "This PC\moto g play - 2024"
Once indexed, Everything will still sort "This PC" will appear between "L:\" and "V:\"

"This PC\moto g play - 2024" is a valid path on Windows.
Windows Explorer can access the files/folders with "This PC\moto g play - 2024" so Everything will stick to that naming.

Question 2: Is my thinking correct? My theory is that any operation I choose to build based on a file list should now work as I have come to expect; for example I can export a File List in CSV format and analyze that File List in a spreadsheet processor.

Yes, the "This PC\moto g play - 2024" paths will work like any other C:\ path in Everything.

Question 3: Is my thinking correct? My theory is that once I have identified files in the Results List, I still cannot write a BATch/Script file to (say) copy files FROM the phone TO the laptop, because in no way have I mapped a phone folder to a drive letter (e.g."I:" for the Internal phone drive and "S:" for the SD card in the phone)

Correct.
The command prompt cannot access "This PC\moto g play - 2024".
Neither can most low level Windows APIs.
Access is handled by the Windows Shell. A high level abstraction.

So you are limited to basic Windows Shell commands, like cut/copy/paste with Windows Explorer.