• Emerald@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer?

    That’s right, you cannot. Well, sometimes you can. MTP is quite an unreliable technology, at least for Linux users. Sometimes you’ll plug in a device and it’ll work fine, other times it won’t even show up.

    P.S. and yes I have enabled MTP on the android device

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Idk
      I just plugged my pixel into my Ubuntu laptop, and tapped on the USB charging notification on my phone, selected “more options” and changed the selection from “no data transfer” to “move files”.

      Then my Ubuntu file viewer could see all my files. Or at least a lot of them.