On 2024-01-18, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo. > The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene. > I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.
MTP can be a bit tempermental if that's what's being used. It's been around for enough years that it should "jsut work", but that's still no my experience, even with recent phones. I usually fire up an sftp server on the phone and do file transfers via Wifi. I find it to be less hassle and faster.