> and I still use GMail on the phone to email photos to myself to download onto my desktop computer
Nothing wrong with that, it integrates well with the phone's UI (which isn't setup well for the whole "remote access from somewhere else" situation) and is often the easiest for sending a small number of photos right now.
It will let you do ftp or sftp and so you can log into the phone and download batches of photos all at once (or, upload batches of photos to the phone all at once).
Nothing wrong with that, it integrates well with the phone's UI (which isn't setup well for the whole "remote access from somewhere else" situation) and is often the easiest for sending a small number of photos right now.
But here is another alternative:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.primftpd/
It will let you do ftp or sftp and so you can log into the phone and download batches of photos all at once (or, upload batches of photos to the phone all at once).