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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09.05.2016 11:11, Filip Dorosz wrote:
> I too use SFTP because MTP is unreliable. It crash nautilus often while
> copying big amounts of data.
> 
>> perhaps bet on the wrong horse and should try to find an alternative >
> to MTP?
> 
> or fix existing implementation perhaps?

Indeed, that sounds like an option. But I think many of the MTP issues
are not the phone's fault, but MTP is in general known as a very fragile
thing. At least in my experience, MTP never worked reliable, regardless
of what device combination I used. Not to mention that there is no
support for MTP on MacOS X, in-car radios with USB ports etc at all.

> 
> Z poważaniem,
> Filip Dorosz
> 
> W dniu 09.05.2016 o 11:00, Michael Zanetti pisze:
>> Hmm... The fact that people seem to recommend ssh and even adb over MTP,
>> indicates that something seems wrong with our MTP support.
>>
>> Indeed, I myself use sftp too because MTP isn't reliable enough to copy
>> bigger chunks of data for me. For my wife, it mostly just fails to
>> connect to the phone at all. She actually telegrams all the data to
>> herself now and saves them from the Desktop Telegram client. Did we
>> perhaps bet on the wrong horse and should try to find an alternative
>> to MTP?
>>
>> Br,
>> Michael
>>
>> On 09.05.2016 07:14, Nathan Haines wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2016 09:40 PM, bruce wrote:
>>>> What a cool tip! I didn't know you could do that.
>>>>
>>>> On 05/09/2016 12:31 AM, Nathan Haines wrote:
>>>>> ssh://phablet@[ip address]/home/phablet/
>>>
>>> You can even open and save files in GNOME apps that way.  If I need to
>>> do a *very* minor update to my website, for instance, I sometimes use
>>> Nautilus to access it (my SSH key automatically authenticates),
>>> right-click > Open with > Gedit the HTML file, make the change, hit
>>> Save, and exit.
>>>
>>> It's a very handy feature.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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