On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi <[email protected]> wrote:
> After my recent switch from Gnome to XFCE (both ~amd64) transferring 
> files from the smartphone to the desktop via USB/MTP has become 
> unbearably slow. From my understanding both Gnome (Nautilus?) and Thunar 
> use gnome-base/gvfs which with mtp USE flag pulls in media-libs/libmtp 
> so I don't understand why this big change in behavior. Any hints?

I've tried a number of MTP implementations on Linux, and none of them
have proven stable and reliable.  IMO, you're better off installing an
ssh/scp server and using sftp or sshfs.

IIRC, there's a farily extensive recent thread on this.

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