Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 11:06 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > Approaches like this sound good, but they're hampered by a recent > router firmware upgrade which renders the devices on my home network > completely unable to see each other. > > I guess there's always Bluetooth :-/ You could try https://gi

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-24 Thread Dave Cross
an) have removed support for USB mass storage and >> the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. >> >> This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux >> in general) appears to be appalling. I have libmtp installed and up to >>

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/22/2012 09:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> If I want to copy, say a few thousand files, I have to spend hours >> manually selecting batches of no more than a few hundred files at a >> time. I have NEVER got this to work well. > > Rsync to the rescue, as long as you can either mount th

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 20:43 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Incidentally, I understand that Android hasn’t removed support for USB > mass storage: it’s just that many recent devices come without support > for SD cards, so there’s nothing to export as USB mass storage. This > means the Android devic

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread James Wilkinson
ng MTP. > > This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux > in general) appears to be appalling. This is a Known Problem. There was a post recently on the devel list (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-September/171639.html) where the Fedora mai

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 01:45 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp > > server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and > > either use a basic FTP client from Linux or

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/22/2012 12:15 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/22/2012 09:15 AM, Tim wrote: It's meant that I've given up on doing backups on/with large storage devices, because it*always* cocks up, and it's a big pain in the neck to try and sort out which files got skipped, aborted, partially transferred, or corrupted. So does this mean that you've

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp > server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and > either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server from > Nautilus and use drag-an

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. > > This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux > in general) appears to be appalling. I have libmtp installed and up to > date. When I plug in the Nexus, both RhythmBox sees it and claim to > display the music found on it

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:45:57 +0100 Dave Cross wrote: > Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging > mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora? I don't bother with the USB cable at all. I just use File Expert on the Nexus to share files over the network with the web interface it provides.

MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Dave Cross
I can't be the only person with this problem. I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. This seems to be a problem as MTP support in F