Ubuntu 22.04 LTS only sees folders of Android smartphone, not their content

[Bret Busby]

On 17/7/24 22:05, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 06:38:58 AM -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>> Marco, top right side do you see three dots?
>> Click on it and scroll to the bottom to see the Path.
>> Mine is SD Card/ Recordings / Voice Recorder.
> 
> Hi Wade,
> my problem is not the path, it's folder contents.
> 
> In the phone, I see a "Voice Recorder" folder, and inside it I see all
> my audio recordings. When I attach the phone to my Ubuntu PC and go
> into the phone with Ubuntu's file manager, I ALSO see the "Voice
> Recorder" folder, but when I double click on it to see its content,
> Ubuntu shows it's empty. Same for all other phone folders, in the same
> session of the same file manager, except DCIM/Camera, where I can find
> all the pictures I took with the phone and copy them.
> 
> This happens when I tell the phone to work in "Image transfer"
> mode. If I put it in file transfer mode, Ubuntu cannot open the phone
> at all. It says
> 
> Unable to open a folder for SAMSUNG Android
> The name :1.120 was not provided by any .service files
> 
> In other words, the phone image transfer mode only makes accessible the
> folder where the phone stores photographs, but the phone file transfer
> mode is not recognized/usable by Ubuntu.
> 
> What next?
> 
> Marco
> 
Which file manager are you using, and, which desktop environment are you 
using?

In using the Mate desktop environment, I found the mate file manager, 
caja, to be somewhat lacking, most of the time, so, I installed pcmanfm, 
which I use as my default file manager, but, for some things (I cannot 
remember what, offhand - it will come to me, when I need it again, I 
hope), I still need to use caja, so, I have both installed, and, as I 
said, use pcmanfm as my default file manager.

Maybe, that would work for you?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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