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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:55:30
Message-Id: ohtlht$29j$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure by Daniel Frey
1 On 06/14/2017 06:05 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
2 > So the MTP process crapped out again.
3 >
4 > I repeated this three times and cursed at KDE (it used to work, I
5 > haven't had to copy files off my phone in more than six months) and
6 > emailed them to myself.
7
8 Same happens to me. And always has.
9
10 I also tried every MTP tool in portage, and only found one (1) that
11 actually works: sys-fs/simple-mtpfs
12
13 And I suspect that might even differ from device to device. What works
14 for one device will probably not work for another. In general, MTP
15 support seems like a huge mess.