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[bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx]

Only reason I use ssh/sftp is being too lazy to grab my phone and plug it into my laptop. That's way too much work! I use OwnCloud as primary now. Then FileZilla (but will skip that and just use Nautilus instead). Plugging it in and drag/drop is a last resort.

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> On May 9, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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