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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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[–] mvirts 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How are you mounting your NTFS disk? If you're using the mount cli as root you may need to add the uid mount option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mvirts 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah definitely add some mount options to give yourself access, uid and gid would be a good place to start, I think there may be others.

Some info https://askubuntu.com/questions/113733/how-to-mount-a-ntfs-partition-in-etc-fstab

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for linking me to the to this page. I did some more diging and I managed to figure out the actual problem. I was using a program called CompactGUI2 which allows you to use the NTFS file comprssion to save space. The minute I uncompressed the files from the Windows side I saw the Lock icons go away when I booted back into Linux.

[–] mvirts 2 points 2 months ago

Cool! That's new to me, thanks for sharing your solution!