[gentoo-user] Re: slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com> wrote:
> After my recent switch from Gnome to XFCE (both ~amd64) transferring
> files from the smartphone to the desktop via USB/MTP has become
> unbearably slow. From my understanding both Gnome (Nautilus?) and Thunar
> use gnome-base/gvfs which with mtp USE flag pulls in media-libs/libmtp
> so I don't understand why this big change in behavior. Any hints?

I've tried a number of MTP implementations on Linux, and none of them
have proven stable and reliable.  IMO, you're better off installing an
ssh/scp server and using sftp or sshfs.

IIRC, there's a farily extensive recent thread on this.

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