Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread David Rysdam
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Shawn O'Shea
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).

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Brian Chabot
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Curt Howland
-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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Tyson Sawyer
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

2014-03-26 Thread Greg Kettmann
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Buskey
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
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,

Re: Btrfs -- awesome, or... well, awesome?

2014-03-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Chris Linstid
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

Re: Btrfs -- awesome, or... well, awesome?

2014-03-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
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

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
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