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If you take a lot of photos using your Galaxy S5, you may want to move those treasured moments off your phone and transfer them to a microSD card. Having them on a microSD card makes it easy to backup the files or use them with another device. Copying your images from your Samsung smartphone to an external card is easy once you know how.

To move your files off your Samsung Galaxy S5, you’ll need to open the My Files app and locate the photos by selecting Device Storage to view the files that are stored on your phone. Depending on the operating system, you may see folders such as DCIM, Pictures, Music, or Videos. The DCIM folder is the folder you want as it contains all the photos you have taken with the camera. The Pictures folder is where the phone saves screenshots, while the Videos folder contains videos, and the Music folder is the storage spot for music on your phone.

When you have located your photos, you are ready to start the moving process. If you only have a handful of pictures, then you can use the “Select All” option to select and move all the files at once. You also can long press on a folder and then select “Move” to move the photos one folder at a time to the external storage card.

Keep this in mind when you are moving files — if you have hundreds of pictures, you shouldn’t select all your photos and albums and wait an hour for the transfer to complete. Sometimes these large files transfers will fail, and you will have to start again. To speed up the transfer and minimize errors, you should move your data gradually, selecting small groups of images at a time.

Once you have selected your individual photos or albums, you can tap the menu icon in the upper right corner (three lines/dots icon) and then select the Move button. You then select should the SD card as the destination for your photos and confirm this location. Before moving, you also can create a new folder on the SD card by selecting “Create Folder” and then select “Move Here.”

The moving process should take just a few minutes if you have a small number of files that you are transferring. If your file count climbs into the hundreds or even thousands, you may have to wait a short time for the data to move to the microSD card.