Asking again: is anyone from Ubuntu looking at this issue at all? Unfortunately there's rather a complex interplay of subsystems here: It seems the top end is Nautilus, and the bottom end might be libmtp. In the middle GVFS, GIO, FUSE and all sorts of stuff might lurk.
If only some expert that knew how bits and pieces of a Linux distribution were monitoring this thread! Anyway, on the libmtp site, there's this nice email exchange: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAKnu2Mrp4s6hTXr%3DNp1VYN9sFmWbb6NV2GeTawSm2rsSu002GA%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=libmtp-discuss It seems that the original MTP spec transferred everything in one go. The uncached extension apparently allows devices to transfer portions of the tree, if I'm reading the exchange correctly. There's also a link in there to a different project called go-mtpfs (https://github.com/hanwen /go-mtpfs). I haven't tried it yet, but it might hold promise. Reading the last portion of the README is really enlightening. http://libmtp.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libmtp/libmtp;a=blob;f=README;hb=HEAD MTP was really not designed to work like a file system. I presume the confusion sets in because the UI conflates the object handling metaphor with the file handling metaphor under Windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972311 Title: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I connect my Galaxy Nexus to my system (up to date precise) and try to access the data on my phone, I get the following error... The folder contents could not be displayed. Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Galaxy": DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. In Oneiric accessing Android 4.0 devices via Nautilus worked. Not very good, but transfering a couple of files didn't fail. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.4.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 3 12:31:01 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/972311/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
