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Re: MTP device mount gnome 3

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Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> writes:

> My experience has been that this whole "MTP" thing, instead of just
> mounting phones like they used to, as a storage device, has been a
> real horror show, I've given up on getting it to work consistently and
> have installed dropbox on my phone and desktop to move stuff back and
> forth, which also has its headaches and limitations, but is
> consistent, and works.. for a while I was just using an ftp client,
> ANDFTP, to move stuff back and forth to a directory on my rented VPS
> in Germany that I had sshfs mounted here at home, which also worked,
> but was a little more klunky, as they say (bit of a kludge?)
>
> Tony
>
The best option I found is to install FX Explorer and upgrade it to the
plus version, which gives me an SMB/FTP/SSH client to directly read my
PCs' filesystems (and direct access to my home fileserver).

Mart

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    --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.

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MTP device mount gnome 3 Vadim Kolchev <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 06:50 +0100
  Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 20:00 +0100
    Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Vadim Kolchev <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 20:10 +0100
      Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-01-21 20:50 +0100
        Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 09:40 +0100
        Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 10:20 +0100
      Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 18:20 +0100
        Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Vadim Kolchev <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 19:00 +0100
          Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 23:50 +0100
            Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Vadim Kolchev <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 00:00 +0100
              Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 00:10 +0100
                Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Vadim Kolchev <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 00:20 +0100
                Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 08:20 +0100
  Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2017-01-22 15:10 +0100
    Re: MTP device mount gnome 3 Vadim Kolchev <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 15:20 +0100

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