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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Montag, den 02.11.2015, 22:00 +0800 schrieb Matthew Exon:
> There must be a simple solution but I can't figure it out...
> 
> I have a folder of a few hundred photos I'd like to keep on my phone and
> view with the Gallery.  I copied them over via ssh into
> ~/Pictures/Favourites.  But Gallery doesn't pick them up.  I tried
> moving the Favourites directory into com.ubuntu.camera, no difference. 
> And I noticed some weirdness with permissions which I cleaned up by just
> making everything in Pictures globally readable and writable.  Still not
> visible in Gallery.
> 
> How am I supposed to copy photos onto the phone?  Am I supposed to do
> some kind of mediascanner magic?
> 
are you sure the permissions and ownerships of the files are right ? 
mtp makes sure they are but indeed it isnt a wireless way of
transferring them. if you use adb or ssh you should always check the
permissions and ownership afterwards.

ciao
	oli