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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 23:42:27
Message-Id: 20170615233733.4949.3393D711@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2017-06-15 07:26, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > > Android and iphones can be accessed as a USB drive. Doesn't this
4 > > work?
5 >
6 > No they can't, at least not the modern Android phones. allowing two
7 > systems to mount the same filesystem is a recipe for disaster. That's
8 > why we have MTP, which would be the perfect answer... if it worked
9 > reliably.
10 >
11 > I avoid all those issues by installing SSHhelper on Android and
12 > copying files with scp you can also open ssh views in Dolphin if the
13 > mouse is more your thing.
14
15 Another option (Android only, of course) is the adb program in
16 android-tools package. I prefer it over MTP (independent of
17 implementation issues) because it gives me file-level view of the
18 device, rather than dealing in "pictures" and "songs".
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>