{"id":300,"date":"2022-04-21T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/how-to-access-files-in-your-computer-from-bluestacks\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:10:38","slug":"how-to-access-files-in-your-computer-from-bluestacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/how-to-access-files-in-your-computer-from-bluestacks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Access files in your computer from BlueStacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Access files in your computer from BlueStacks               On <a class=\"timestamp-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/2014\/07\/how-to-access-files-in-computer-from-bluestacks.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"permanent link\">07:35<\/a>           By <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104384837900945233220\" rel=\"author\" title=\"author profile\">Nandit Saini<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/access\" rel=\"tag\">access<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/android\" rel=\"tag\">android<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/android%20emulator\" rel=\"tag\">android emulator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/bluestacks\" rel=\"tag\">bluestacks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/computer\" rel=\"tag\">computer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/ES%20file%20explorer\" rel=\"tag\">ES file explorer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/Tips\" rel=\"tag\">Tips<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/search\/label\/Tricks\" rel=\"tag\">Tricks<\/a>For Accessing the files like images ,audio files, pdfs etc in your computer from your BlueStacks &#8211; App Player you will need:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Good File Explorer like ES File Explorer,Astro File Manager etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this post I&#8217;ll be using ES File Explorer(Version 3).<br \/>You can check this post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuehow.com\/2014\/07\/how-to-install-bluestacks-android-emulator.html#install\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Install BlueStacks Android Emulator<\/a> for knowing how to install applications.Now I believe you have installed the ES File Explorer my personal favorite.<\/p>\n<h4>Steps to follow<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Open BlueStack &#8211; App Player and then launch <b>ES File Explorer.<a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fileexplorer.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Launch Es File Explorer\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fileexplorer.jpg\" title=\"Launch Es File Explorer\"\/><\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li>In the ES File Explorer you will find a <b>bstfolder<\/b> so click on it to open the folder.<a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bluestack.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Open bstfolder\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bluestack.png\" title=\"Open bstfolder\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here you will find a number of folders as shown in the image.The <b>&#8220;Documents&#8221;<\/b> Folder here is the <b>&#8221; My Documents &#8220;<\/b> of your PC if you are on Windows XP and for Windows 7\/8 Users it corresponds the <b>Documents<\/b> folder on your PC.  <\/li>\n<li>So you can paste any file in your <b>Documents<\/b> folder of your PC and then restart the BlueStacks so that the folders get refreshed.<a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/restart.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Restart BlueStacks\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/restart.jpg\" height=\"282\" title=\"Restart BlueStacks\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Similarly, the <b>Pictures<\/b> folder in bstfloder is the <b>&#8220;My Pictures&#8221;<\/b> folder of the  PC in Windows XP and for Windows 7\/8 it corresponds to the <b>Pictures<\/b> folder on PC.<\/li>\n<li>The <b>Public Documents<\/b> and the <b>Public Pictures<\/b> folders in the bstfolder consists of those files of the Documents and Pictures folder of the PC which are publicly shared.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Note:-<\/b>Sometimes you may not see all the files pasted in the <b>Documents folder<\/b> of your <b>PC<\/b> in The ES File Explorer of the <b>BlueStacks<\/b>. So here&#8217;s what you can do:-<\/p>\n<ol><a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/new-folder.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>My Current <b>Documents<\/b> folder in the <b>bstfolder<\/b> and the Documents folder on my PC are shown below.<a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/folder.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Contents of Documents folder in the bstfolder\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/folder.png\" title=\"Contents of Documents folder in the bstfolder\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PC27sdocumentsfolder.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Contents of Documents on my PC\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PC27sdocumentsfolder.png\" title=\"Contents of Documents on my PC\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>As you can compare the above two images and notice that the folders after <b>My Games <\/b>folder on PC is not visible in ES File Explorer.So what you do is create a New Folder in your PC as shown in the image and you <b>must<\/b> give a name to that folder which start with a letter from A &#8211; N (because the folders starting with name after M are not visible),Like in my case I Gave the name <b>Folders<\/b> because it starts with <b>F<\/b> and is in the range <b>A-N<\/b>.After creating the folder add some files in it like music,images etc.<a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/new-folder.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Folder named Folders is created\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/new-folder.jpg\" title=\"New Folder named Folders is created\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now go to ES File Explorer and click on the Refresh Button in the below as shown in the image.<a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/refresh.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Click on Refresh Button\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/refresh.jpg\" title=\"Click on Refresh Button\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now you will see the folder you created.So open it and you will see all the files which you copied in that folder on your PC<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bluestack-1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Folders is now visible in Es File Explorer\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bluestack-1.png\" title=\"Folders is now visible in Es File Explorer\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Access files in your computer from BlueStacks On 07:35 By Nandit Sainiaccess, android, android emulator, bluestacks, computer, ES file explorer, Tips, TricksFor Accessing the files like images ,audio files, pdfs etc in your computer from your BlueStacks &#8211; App Player you will need:- A Good File Explorer like ES File Explorer,Astro File Manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}