On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card > > What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card > > [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/output error > > This happens with both "jmtps" and "simple-mtpfs", so I think it's > probably a systemic issue that affects all implementions. For now I'm > using the "screenshots" directory for transferring miscellaneous files, > but I'd really like to solve the core problem. Any ideas?
Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root, create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and have rwx permissions, and then exit root. After that I can do what I want. HTH, Mark