Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> writes: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016, Greg Troxel wrote: > >>> pkgsrc/devel/libmtp should work for Android. There may or may not also >>> be a nearly-hidden menu item somewhere on the phone to switch it back to >>> USB-MSC for umass(4). >> >> MTP is the right answer, I think. I have not figured out if libmtp has >> a command-line client, or if you need a transfer program that uses the >> client. > > The DESCR file seems to indicate that it's only a library, but the > PLIST contains a large number of bin/mtp-* program entries. > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any man-pages so it's > definitely going to take some work to figure out... :( (The README > on their home page refers to these programs as "examples" and clearly > doesn't intend that they actually be used for "real life" stuff.) That sounds promising. Apparently gvfs can use libmtp, too. >> The point of MTP vs mounting is that the phone can continue to access >> the fs at the same time. So you probably should go down that path. >> >> Another alternative is to use syncthing, and mirror the entire phone >> filesystem to your desktop. > > This looks much more "heavy-handed" than just transferring a few > files, and it looks like it also requires another app on the phone. > (I don't think I need, or want, to mirror the entire phone filesystem, > just a few small files, and it's a one-time thing.) It is, but it works really nicely, and over the net - so you don't need to plug in USB You run net/syncthing on Unix, and the syncthing android app on the phone (available from f-droid). You can set it up to mirror whatever directories you want, and it syncs either always, or when it has wifi and power, as you configure it. But yes, it's a lot for one-time use. Still, it could be easier.
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