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Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5

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On 2026-05-11, Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> wrote:
> On 2026-05-10 at 18:40 ADT, Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:
>> Hi.
>
>> I recently had cause to try getting some photos off my phone on to my Pi5. 
>> I was able to see the root folder on the phone when allowing PTP transport 
>> on the phone, but was unable to navigate to any of the sub-folders.
>
>> Presumably this is a permissions issue, but as the subject is somewhat 
>> arcane to me, can anyone advise how I can get in to the DCIM folder on the 
>> phone?
>
>> This was the same whether the phone was plugged in via USB cable, or 
>> connected by Bluetooth.
>
>> Any advice gratefully received.
>
> I have termux on my phone, which lets you use ssh to log in to the phone
> from your laptop, and also lets you use scp to transfer files back and
> forth.
>
> termux' sshd is not run by default, but you can either run it from the
> termux window or you could put a call to it in the shell's init file.
>
> I find it much nicer to ssh in and cd around than to hunt using a gui file
> manager, but YMMV.

Indeed. Even nicer is using sshfs to mount the phones files into your 
own work space on a the pi or, e.g. on my linux desktop.

   https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/how-to-use-sshfs-on-linux/

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Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> - 2026-05-10 22:40 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2026-05-11 11:37 +0200
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-05-11 11:14 +0100
    Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-11 23:09 +0000
      Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-05-12 09:43 +0100
        Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-12 14:06 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-11 12:32 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-11 14:00 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-05-11 11:56 -0300
    Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 08:59 +0000
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-05-11 16:51 +0000
    Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-11 23:07 +0000

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