Bonjour,
I would like to plug a tablet running android with a computer running fc23 and copy files from the tablet to the computer and conversely from the computer to the tablet.
I installed simple-mtpfs and gvfs-mtp
I can mount the tablet using the command: simple-mtpf android
I can see the content of the tablet, I can copy a file from the tablet to the computer *but* I can't copy a file from the computer to the tablet and I have a strange error message: I right click on the file (on the computer) and choose "copy", then I go to ~/android and choose "paste", the message is: "/home/me/android/file does not exist"
Of course it does not exist because I want to copy it in the directory /home/me/android/
What can I do to tranfert files from the computer to the tablette?
2nd question: is there a way to automatically mount the tablet when it is plugged to the computer? I use xfce and thunar as file manager.
Thank you.
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 12:42 +0200, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I would like to plug a tablet running android with a computer running fc23 and copy files from the tablet to the computer and conversely from the computer to the tablet.
I installed simple-mtpfs and gvfs-mtp
I can mount the tablet using the command: simple-mtpf android
I can see the content of the tablet, I can copy a file from the tablet to the computer *but* I can't copy a file from the computer to the tablet and I have a strange error message: I right click on the file (on the computer) and choose "copy", then I go to ~/android and choose "paste", the message is: "/home/me/android/file does not exist"
Of course it does not exist because I want to copy it in the directory /home/me/android/
What can I do to tranfert files from the computer to the tablette?
2nd question: is there a way to automatically mount the tablet when it is plugged to the computer? I use xfce and thunar as file manager.
Not a direct answer but an alternative: take a look at the Airdroid app for Android, which does all this with a minimum of fuss and without cables (it runs a web server on the tablet which you open from your desktop browser).
poc
Le 07/05/2016 14:20, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit :
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 12:42 +0200, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I would like to plug a tablet running android with a computer running fc23 and copy files from the tablet to the computer and conversely from the computer to the tablet.
I installed simple-mtpfs and gvfs-mtp
I can mount the tablet using the command: simple-mtpf android
I can see the content of the tablet, I can copy a file from the tablet to the computer *but* I can't copy a file from the computer to the tablet and I have a strange error message: I right click on the file (on the computer) and choose "copy", then I go to ~/android and choose "paste", the message is: "/home/me/android/file does not exist"
Of course it does not exist because I want to copy it in the directory /home/me/android/
What can I do to tranfert files from the computer to the tablette?
2nd question: is there a way to automatically mount the tablet when it is plugged to the computer? I use xfce and thunar as file manager.
Not a direct answer but an alternative: take a look at the Airdroid app for Android, which does all this with a minimum of fuss and without cables (it runs a web server on the tablet which you open from your desktop browser).
Thank you, but it seems that airdroid is only available on googleplay... I refuse to open a google account....
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 18:45 +0200, François Patte wrote:
Not a direct answer but an alternative: take a look at the Airdroid
app
for Android, which does all this with a minimum of fuss and without cables (it runs a web server on the tablet which you open from your desktop browser).
Thank you, but it seems that airdroid is only available on googleplay... I refuse to open a google account....
Then I can't help you ...
poc
On 16-05-07 12:51:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 18:45 +0200, François Patte wrote:
Not a direct answer but an alternative: take a look at the
Airdroid
app
for Android, which does all this with a minimum of fuss and
without
cables (it runs a web server on the tablet which you open from
your
desktop browser).
Thank you, but it seems that airdroid is only available on googleplay... I refuse to open a google account....
Then I can't help you ...
OK, François, can you command-line "touch" a file in that directory? If that doesn't work, then it's not Thunar's fault.
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 06:45:19PM +0200, François Patte wrote:
Le 07/05/2016 14:20, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit :
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 12:42 +0200, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I would like to plug a tablet running android with a computer running fc23 and copy files from the tablet to the computer and conversely from the computer to the tablet.
I installed simple-mtpfs and gvfs-mtp
I can mount the tablet using the command: simple-mtpf android
I can see the content of the tablet, I can copy a file from the tablet to the computer *but* I can't copy a file from the computer to the tablet and I have a strange error message: I right click on the file (on the computer) and choose "copy", then I go to ~/android and choose "paste", the message is: "/home/me/android/file does not exist"
Of course it does not exist because I want to copy it in the directory /home/me/android/
What can I do to tranfert files from the computer to the tablette?
2nd question: is there a way to automatically mount the tablet when it is plugged to the computer? I use xfce and thunar as file manager.
Not a direct answer but an alternative: take a look at the Airdroid app for Android, which does all this with a minimum of fuss and without cables (it runs a web server on the tablet which you open from your desktop browser).
Thank you, but it seems that airdroid is only available on googleplay... I refuse to open a google account....
an ftp server is available on f-droid.org. You can also install Termux from there and run a ssh server in Termux
Richard
Hi, I think you are trying to connect via the USB cable right? I don't have an android tablet but I've a phone and since I updated the OS to lollipop I lost the capacity to write on the device from my fedora.
Something has changed or a bug is arisen with the new version I don't know but simple-mtpfs doesn't work anymore. I didn't try with marshmallow yet.
I transfer my files through Bluetooth (I use bluez). You can also give a try to KDEconnect but it never worked for me as well (it can't see my phone).
I HTH
Walter
On Sat, 7 May 2016, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I would like to plug a tablet running android with a computer running fc23 and copy files from the tablet to the computer and conversely from the computer to the tablet.
I installed simple-mtpfs and gvfs-mtp
I can mount the tablet using the command: simple-mtpf android
I can see the content of the tablet, I can copy a file from the tablet to the computer *but* I can't copy a file from the computer to the tablet and I have a strange error message: I right click on the file (on the computer) and choose "copy", then I go to ~/android and choose "paste", the message is: "/home/me/android/file does not exist"
Of course it does not exist because I want to copy it in the directory /home/me/android/
What can I do to tranfert files from the computer to the tablette?
2nd question: is there a way to automatically mount the tablet when it is plugged to the computer? I use xfce and thunar as file manager.
Thank you.
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On 05/08/2016 01:21 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
Hi, I think you are trying to connect via the USB cable right? I don't have an android tablet but I've a phone and since I updated the OS to lollipop I lost the capacity to write on the device from my fedora.
Something has changed or a bug is arisen with the new version I don't know but simple-mtpfs doesn't work anymore. I didn't try with marshmallow yet.
I transfer my files through Bluetooth (I use bluez). You can also give a try to KDEconnect but it never worked for me as well (it can't see my phone).
This is a change in the security model of Android and has "broken" tons of applications. In kitkat, apps are limited to writing to their own directories and not to any other apps' directories. Incredibly stupid decision, IMHO. I never agreed with the change. It's my device, let me put data where I want. You can move stuff around using the file manager, but you absolutely should NOT have to do that.
Supposedly this is being relaxed in Android V5 and things should get better, but I'm really starting to hate Apple and Google.
On Sat, 7 May 2016, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I would like to plug a tablet running android with a computer running fc23 and copy files from the tablet to the computer and conversely from the computer to the tablet.
I installed simple-mtpfs and gvfs-mtp
I can mount the tablet using the command: simple-mtpf android
I can see the content of the tablet, I can copy a file from the tablet to the computer *but* I can't copy a file from the computer to the tablet and I have a strange error message: I right click on the file (on the computer) and choose "copy", then I go to ~/android and choose "paste", the message is: "/home/me/android/file does not exist"
Of course it does not exist because I want to copy it in the directory /home/me/android/
What can I do to tranfert files from the computer to the tablette?
2nd question: is there a way to automatically mount the tablet when it is plugged to the computer? I use xfce and thunar as file manager.
Thank you.
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