[resending from the correct, subscribed, email address] Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> writes:
> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo. > The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ... > Manjaro suggests soomething called 'MTP' is involved, > perhaps 'Media Transfer Protocol' (?). > > Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work on Gentoo ? This works for me # qfile /usr/bin/simple-mtpfs sys-fs/simple-mtpfs: /usr/bin/simple-mtpfs Though sometimes I've had problems, fixed in the latest sources available from <https://github.com/Cyp/simple-mtpfs.git> but the Gentoo version is currently the same as that on github last time I pulled. [as root] simple-mtpfs --device 1 -o allow_other,ro /mnt/phone [as normal user, copy] rsync ... [again, as root] fusermount -u /mnt/phone -- Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. Security is inversely proportional to convenience
