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From: Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Error copying from Linux to Android
Date: 21 Dec 2024 12:59:57 +0000 (GMT)
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Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-12-20 19:03, pinnerite wrote:
> > When I try to copy files from Linux Mint 21.3 (Ubuntu 22.04)
> > to my Xioumi M9 cellphone it returns this error message:
> > 
> > "libmtp error:  Could not send object info."
> > 
> > The mtp files installed on Linux are:
> > 
> > libmtp-common
> > libmtp-runtime
> > libmtpg
> > libnet-smtp-ssl-perl
> > 
> > It worked a month ago (?)
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> On occasion I could not fetch files from the phone using Thunar. 
> Typically I then try with Nautilus or Dolphin, and it works.
> 
> Once none worked. Turned out that the usb connection had been captured 
> by shotwell, who thought it had to handle the camera.

I had the opposite problem - I was trying to import photos into digiKam and
some file manager (Dolphin?) had already grabbed the USB session.

Turned out that I needed to kill 'kiod5' which was the process that grabbed
the port, and then digiKam worked.

https://techpatterns.com/forums/about3009.html

Theo