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libmtp error when copying from ntfs to phone on Linux (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/techsupport

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Ok I was copying a bunch of games from one of my Windows drives over to my phone while booted into Linux. And I got this error that says "libmtp error: Could not open source file". Thankfully I was able to copy the files when I was booted into Windows but it would be nice if I could Transfer files from my Windows drives without having to reboot into Windows. Is there a way I can fix this problem.

I think it might have to do with the ntfs file system because I copied one of the files from the phone back to my Desktop which is ext4 and then back to the phone without any issues. I already tried installing ntfs-3g which was already installed on my distro.

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[–] kyoji 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've also had trouble with automatic MTP mounts in GNOME. Try a program called gMTP, I use it for mp3s but I think it can do regular files as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just installed the program but it says that it cannot find any devices.

[–] kyoji 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry to hear that, I don't have any other recommendations 🙁