I no on my PC sometime the drivers on my system can cause issues such as your having, its strange that it does it one way but not the other. Unfortunately im not running a mac, but I will ask around and see what I can found out for you.....

 

Download the app Kies Air from the play store. with that you can access your phone via the web browser on your mac. You just need them connected by the WiFi (connected to the same wireless router is fine). You will need no software for the mac other than the web browser. Going over a the phone's WiFi connection is also a lot faster and will not suffer choke points and timeouts for a large file transfer.

 

Code you be the man sir kudos..............

 

No, this sends it over the network connection locally. Both the computer and the phone have to either be on the same router or can be linked directly together via the wireless network card if you know how to set it up.

Just to clear things up, WiFi does not mean internet. It just means a wireless network connection which can be just a local thing. Many people connect to the internet through their WiFi because their wireless access point (wireless router) is connected to a modem or other router that is connected to the internet. I regularly access my 1.5 terabyte drive on my network locally via my WiFi, but it is not accessible from the internet. Wi-Fi is simply a trademarked term meaning IEEE 802.11x.

 

Are you both connected to the same wireless router? It is not the 3g 4g connection on your phone that is used. This is for connecting to the device that is on the same network router connection (example: both your mac and phone are connected to the same wireless router).

 

Unless you have some firewall issue on your mac, it should work. Well you can try ES file explorer/manager. It has remote ability that will work on a router connection too.