That's unfortunate. Basically, without those google extensions, MTP can only do full-file copies. It can read a file off the device or send a file. It can't let you read a little bit of a file, or selectively update part of a file. This makes it mechancially impossible to do any incremental operations, as you'd need for rsync. It means you can't copy files with non-gvfs applications, and you can't open files in applications. You have to copy the files to your computer (using Nautilus, Thunar, etc), do whatever you want to them, and then copy them back (or delete them if you were just reading them). It's a miserable experience, but it's all that MTP has to offer.
The google extensions allow for normal random I/O on files, which makes life much easier - but Samsung insist on using their own MTP server instead of the standard Android one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389001 Title: Can not copy files by cp from Samsung S5 Mini in GVFS in MTP mode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1389001/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
