Move all photos from phone to PC: easy method The more I'm using an Android phone since years, the more I see a general problem arriving, for which I haven't found any easy solution after many attempts, involving MTP, SSH, FTP, adb, AirDroid, Shared folders, Sambadroid, etc. Note: I've read nearly all questions about this here on Android.SE.

General question: How can a non-power user retrieve all his photos present on phone to his PC, in one or two easy steps? i.e.:

Phone/DCIM/Retrica
Phone/WhatsApp/WhatsApp Images/
Phone/WhatsApp/WhatsApp Images/Sent
Phone/WhatsApp/WhatsApp Videos/
Phone/WhatsApp/WhatsApp Videos/Sent
ExtSdCard/DCIM/Retrica
...


For myself, I've done a Terminal Emulator script, that moves everything in a single folder, and then I'm syncing this folder to a PC folder with Resilio Sync.

But this is super complicated, my mother wouldn't be able to do it for example, and nor my brother (who is just an everyday-life phone user but non-power user).



Let's compare these two methods:


Before Android 4: Connect phone to PC, use USB Mass Storage. Then it's like a good old standard USB flash drive. Search *.jpg, Cut, Paste. Done! Important: a non-power-user can do it.
After Android 4: Connect phone to PC, use MTP (UMS no more enabled). Impossible to search *.jpg. Impossible to run a script. Impossible to run any standard backup software because MTP doesn't give a drive letter. Any solution that involves hacking to actually have a letter would be a power-user solution, which I don't want, according to question before.


Remark: The fact that super easy method #1 is no more available might be done on purpose to force users to use cloud services, etc. but that's a whole debate that would be out of topic here.
The simplest method would be to connect the phone to the computer then enable PTP (pictures transfer protocol) on the phone instead of MTP. 

On Windows, a dialog usually pops up just choose Import images and videos. Alternatively  you can  right-click on the phone icon in Computer and select Import images and videos. 

The computer then retrieve ALL photos and videos inside the phone and copy them to a folder in the computer. 

This article provide further informations about android USB connections.