#1 2018-07-21 10:07:51

nau

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[SOLVED] transfer files

Hello, I have problems to transfer files from my samsung S7 to my PC with thunar or nautilus by usb cable on Bunsenlabs.
I tried several usb cables and different usb input.
I have no problems to do it with my old Moto G.

Can you help me?

Last edited by nau (2018-07-21 23:06:11)

ansem_of_nexus

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Re: [SOLVED] transfer files

I don't have much experience with phone to pc transfers, I have done it, and found it to be painfully unreliable. So my first question is do you need it to be a wired connection? If so the only thing I found to help ease the pain of transfer, was using rsync with "-P" which gives you "--partial --progress" so that when the mtp stuff hangs and drops your transfer, you can just restart the command and continue where you left off or move files in small amounts with a trial/error method (I do not suggest this unless you can't get rsync). If you don't have to use a wire, I would suggest going through the network, like using Termux to sftp your files onto your pc. I currently do this, and while I haven't done it on my current nas, I have previously made it so that my phone (and other devices) had a special ssh config section that did not allow anything other than sftp access to a share section of the filesystem, for security reasons.

nobody

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Re: [SOLVED] transfer files

Hello, I have problems to transfer files from my samsung S7 to my PC with thunar or nautilus by usb cable on Bunsenlabs.
I tried several usb cables and different usb input.
I have no problems to do it with my old Moto G.

Can you help me?

Is your new phone configured to advertise itself as MTP or USB mass storage? If you're looking for the old behaviour, you'll probably want MTP.

What does the lsusb output look like? Does it show up in Nautilus or not at all?

Then, use the a google search with site:forums.bunsenlabs.org and the keywords "site:forums.bunsenlabs.org android mtp kde connect gvfs", we had a lot of threads for different approaches.

nau

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Registered: 2018-07-19

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Re: [SOLVED] transfer files

Thanks for your advices. I installed mtp-tools and libmtp-runtime and now it works with nautilus but it doesn't works with thunar (thunar freeze when i try to transfer files)