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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 21: How to download files from my Galaxy S5
From:       Matthew Miller <mattdm () fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2015-04-29 22:34:33
Message-ID: 20150429223433.GA32187 () mattdm ! org
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:49:21PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> This has been discussed several times on this list for several years,
> including quite recently. If you simply want to copy files you can use
> rsync or airdroid apps on the phone, among others. Otherwise the
> simple-mtpfs package on Fedora makes the phone "mountable" as a FUSE
> filesystem. Just remember that MTP imposes several restrictions on what
> you can actually do (e.g. no seeking. no overwriting files etc.) which
> simple-mtpfs does its best to hide from you.

For example, one thing I discovered is that 'rmdir' will remove
directories _with contents_, as opposed to the normal behavior. Oops.



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Matthew Miller
<mattdm@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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