On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:49:21PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> This has been discussed several times on this list for several years,
> including quite recently. If you simply want to copy files you can use
> rsync or airdroid apps on the phone, among others. Otherwise the
> simple-mtpfs package on Fedora makes the phone "mountable" as a FUSE
> filesystem. Just remember that MTP imposes several restrictions on what
> you can actually do (e.g. no seeking. no overwriting files etc.) which
> simple-mtpfs does its best to hide from you.
For example, one thing I discovered is that 'rmdir' will remove
directories _with contents_, as opposed to the normal behavior. Oops.
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
Hi Matthew,
I did not have simple-mtpfs and so installed it. Unfortunately I cannot
figure out how to make it do anything. Keeps returning back to the
command line with error code 1, and strace shows permission BS. I will
do some more research and post my findings later.
I didn't think this would work but I was able to copy the files using
the GUI. This is somewhat cumbersome, and still doesn't make any sense,
but at least I can get movies off my phone now.
Thanks to everyone who responded!
Jim Lewis
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