I want to download the content of /storage/emulated/0/android/data/com.xxxx.myapp as zip file to my Mac download folder.

1. I connect my Android phone with USB to my Mac
2. I open terminal
3. I run adb shell
4. I run cd /storage/emulated/0/android/data

Now, how to zip and download com.xxxx.myapp folder to my Mac download folder?

Or, how to copy com.xxxx.myapp folder to my Mac download folder?

When I run adb shell, the prompt becomes a50:/ $ in Terminal.

If I do cp com.xxxx.myapp /Users/my_user/Downloads I get

cp: Skipped dir '/Users/my_user/Downloads': No such file or directory'.

CodePudding user response：

You can use adb pull.

(Running cp on the phone can't work because your Mac's folders won't exist on the phone. Plus, you forgot -R.)

How to zip: You can create a tarball and save it in /data/local/tmp or some other location you have write access to, by using a regular tar command on the phone:

tar -czf /data/local/tmp/archive.tgz com.xxxx.myapp

Then, exit the ADB shell and run an adb pull command on the host instead:

adb pull /data/local/tmp/archive.tgz ~/Downloads/

You can also just pull the whole folder without compressing it first:

adb pull /storage/emulated/0/android/data/com.xxxx.myapp ~/Downloads/