Public bug reported:
Nautilus mounts a device using MTP through gnome-vfs with I assume
libmtp. This includes newer Google Android devices like the Galaxy
Nexus.
It seems that when the Galaxy Nexus (my test device) has too many files,
it simply times out. The solution is to plug the device into Windows,
remove some files, then go back to Linux and it will (barely) work.
My guess is it's just building a complete hierarchical structure first,
then returning a pointer: gnome-vfs can't know what's happening, and
must guess the library is hanging. MTP isn't a file system but rather
an arbitrary object collection; objects can have parent objects, so the
whole thing has to be read first before doing anything useful (you can't
locate the "root" of the "filesystem" without reading every node; and
then you just display everything without a parent).
In any case it takes too long, and decides it can't find anything in
there.
** Affects: libmtp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
MTP + Nautilus fails with a lot of files on device
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