Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. Then use rsync. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.kowalczuk.rsync4android Interface is a little clunky but works great for me. I've never rooted my phone or plugged it into anything but a wall socket. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
I get around the general problem by using Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive. For my music files, I've uploaded all my music (about 50GB of music I own) to Amazon MP3 and Google Music. Depending on how much music you're talking about you might need to spring for paying for the space, but I believe both have free tiers. On Mar 25, 2014 11:50 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
The Linux Action Show podcast used to feature an Android app pick segment every week, and apps that help with this were commonly featured (a listener maintained list of apps they've covered is here, http://www.appbrain.com/app/airdroid-best-device-manager/com.sand.airdroid#descriptionsection). Airdroid was featured and has been mentioned numerous times since, which lets you manage files over WiFi from a web browser. http://www.airdroid.com/ For syncing, possibly either BitTorrentSync (a new syncing protocol from the bit torrent folks, http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/get-started/mobile ) or SyncMe Wireless. AppBrain listing for SyncMe, http://www.appbrain.com/app/syncme-wireless/com.bv.wifisync -Shawn On Mar 25, 2014 11:51 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
Another app is called Air Droid. On 03/26/2014 12:04 AM, Henry Gessau wrote: Look for an app on the phone called Kies Air. (Yes I know, that has to be the least obvious app name in the universe.) It requires Wi-Fi, and on your computer you need a browser that can run java apps. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com mailto:dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
I have an S4 and I feel your frustration I ended up using Astro File Manager for Android and transfering with Linux via sftp. Brian On Mar 25, 2014 11:51 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday 25 March 2014, Ben Scott was heard to say: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, I recently made the mistake of getting a Galaxy S3. It has the same software bug of not being able to be a USB disk, only the Hellspawn media device which only talks to Windows and Mac. My solution so far is to rip the back off and put the card in a card reader. It's not a solution, it's a nasty broken phone and if I'd known I would not have bought it. I'll have to look at this gmtp you wrote about. Nothing else I tried worked at all. Curt- - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, Richard II -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlMyu04ACgkQtk9X6NaR4akzwwEAvGmdkiDA7ERtt0ba7sFEUZLV rnq+mseUoGsO/0U55VIA/iHC/ch0HDWhYL/aC52O5RlhnoQQr6HZ7sxVzBf7oItu =X6LG -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
I have had good luck with QuickSSHd and using it as a sftp/sshfs server. It also allows ssh login. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
I have an S4, also for work. I use ES File Explorer File Manager. It's a file browser to see all the files on my phone. It also supports the network so, when I'm home, I can also look at the LAN, and my local file shares, and move or copy files around. Not an automatic procedure but very effective. Not dissimilar to Astro File Manager, also suggested, but I've had better luck with ES File Explorer. Greg On 3/25/2014 11:50 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
There are some file server apps for android. Mount the andoid share on Linux and run Unison between the share and your music. 2 way syncing. You might be able to do something with sshfs and an sftp server on the phone as well. If you can always be on a network, mpd server on linux with your music and a player on the android. I do this with my tablet. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Greg Kettmann g...@kettmann.com wrote: I have an S4, also for work. I use ES File Explorer File Manager. It's a file browser to see all the files on my phone. It also supports the network so, when I'm home, I can also look at the LAN, and my local file shares, and move or copy files around. Not an automatic procedure but very effective. Not dissimilar to Astro File Manager, also suggested, but I've had better luck with ES File Explorer. Greg On 3/25/2014 11:50 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
I just plugged my S4 (ATT) into Fedora 20 and I can see both memory and the SD Card. On 03/26/2014 07:16 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: I have an S4 and I feel your frustration I ended up using Astro File Manager for Android and transfering with Linux via sftp. Brian On Mar 25, 2014 11:51 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com mailto:dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it. There's a microSD flash memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to and from it, from my Linux home desktop. This is proving unreasonably hard. Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. My previous handhelds let me plug in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) device. In other words, like a disk drive. Block device appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done. Apparently that's not an option for this device. Difficulty: I can't root the device. Corporate policy. Whatever I do has to play by the rules. Apps are generally OK, but not apps that attempt to circumvent security mechanisms. It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds whenever it opens the device. That's maddeningly irritating at best. If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's basically a showstopper. I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5). It lacks a command to create directories. It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see showstopper, above). The commands lack any documentation or help. I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities. :-p I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source). I found it couldn't create directories. That's a problem if I want to replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above). I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1). It suffers from the libmtp hang issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive. It can create directories. But it can only transfer files in one directory at a time. (Ibid.) I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Btrfs -- awesome, or... well, awesome?
I had BTRFS installed on Fedora 19, but I deleted it because I misconfigured it. For the past few years I have been using a RAID1 EXT4 configuration, but I also do several rsnapshot backups a day onto another drive. I was thinking of reconfiguring the 2 drives that are currently mirrored under RAID1 to a single BTRFS volume in August when Fedora 21 is released. I'm just looking for a good reason NOT to use BTRFS. On 02/21/2014 05:01 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Okay, so my bias is showing a little. And, yeah, I've even lost data to it -- but that's kinda what happens when you play with alpha releases of filesystems. That being said, while nobody would be dumb enough to call it stable yet (stable filesystem is a journey, not a destination), it's a fair ways along that road. So Linux Weekly News (the *best* hard-Linux news site in existence, IMNSHO) did a series: http://lwn.net/Articles/576276/ -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
I've used this ftp server in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lutey.FTPServer I've also used AirDroid as others have suggested and it works pretty well. Now, I just upload all of my music to Google Play Music and I stream most of it. The albums that I tend to listen to really often (basically music I play for my 2 year old), I pin in Play Music and it syncs the pinned albums/songs to my local storage on my phone so I don't have to stream it. I have a Nexus 5, so I don't even have the option of pulling out the micro SD card. - Chris ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Btrfs -- awesome, or... well, awesome?
On 2014-03-26 09:46, Jerry Feldman wrote: currently mirrored under RAID1 to a single BTRFS volume in August when Fedora 21 is released. I'm just looking for a good reason NOT to use BTRFS. Honestly? If you're not anxious to roll with it, you might want to hold off a bit. SuSE has announced that they're going with it as their default FS for the next release, in November, and I have to imagine that there will be some shakeout after that occurs. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTYzNjA I *do* think it probably is more-or-less ready, but we all know what happens when something goes from a relatively small userbase to a suddenly much larger one. $.02, -Ken ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux. My desktop is running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2. [...] I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way. Problem there is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld. Opening it repeatedly is bad for it. And annoying. And exposes the handheld to damage. I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox or Google Music, etc. It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and connected via USB cable. It's nice to hear someone other than myself say that; I've felt like I must have been losing my mind Anyone got a better idea? Bluetooth? Wifi? Floppy disk? Bluetooth. If that doesn't work for some reason (don't have Bluetooth?), or if you want to take this opportunity to explore new things (or if you just want something more elaborate for some reason)..., here's a selection of relevant-looking ideas available on F-Droid (not that I actually use them myself, but since nobody's suggested any of them yet...): You could install ownCloud on your computer and run the android client: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.owncloud.android You could use sparkleshare/git: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sparkleshare.android You could drive the transfers from the Android device, and download from the computer via scp/sftp: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=sk.vx.connectbot https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.ghostsq.commander.sftp ... or maybe upload to the Android device via FTP: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=be.ppareit.swiftp_free -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
