Hi,

Oh my god! I want to do a dimple task - copy file from my old Android phone to /Home folder in my Linux computer, so I do following:

1) Open the terminal and write:
3) Then I see that "Pictures" folder has ID number 6! Fine!
4) Now I want to copy this folder into my computer, so I do:
And Its not f*king working and I tried everything. Exactly how hard is to copy one f*king Pictures file on to my laptop/PC using PopOS?

Why Its not working? Why cant you send the whole folder and whats the correct and easiest way to do this in terminal? I NEED TO BACKUP ONE "PICTURES" FOLDER, nothing more, nothing less. Please help!

Thank you

If you can't find a command line way to do it, you might take a look at Airdroid. You do not need an Airdroid account to use it locally on you own network. It's in the Play store.

gets and sends issue??

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ibmtp-over-usb

I set up an ftp server on the android device and ftp the image files across.

Hi groovepunk,

copying from android is actually not a simple task...
How and where it stores stuff is mysterious at least, sometimes it magically merges internal and externel sd storage, sometimes it doesn't.

Airdroid works well for onetime actions.

If you want to do this more often, either find a good filemanager app, put the stuff to the sd card and stick that card into the computer or use a cloud service. The latter is what I do.

Two alternatives you might consider:

1. If your photos are on a microSD card in your phone, extract it and use a converter to allow you to mount it on your laptop either through a built-in SD card reader or one you can plug into a USB port. I have an inexpensive Dynex reader (DX-CR121) that I originally got ages ago to read CF form-factor cards but that can also read SD and microSD cards (and others) without an adapter. Obviously, if you haven't installed a secondary microSD storage device in your phone, this option may not be for you. However, adding a microSD is done so commonly nowadays that you ought to be able to find a small capacity miniSD card for almost nothing nowadays and almost everywhere. Most of them seem to include the microSD-to-SD adapters as well. (I've even seen them for sale in the pharmacy sections of grocery stores of all places). Budget-constrained? Get a small capacity one and move the photos in batches.
   
   Downside 1: Yeah... if this feels like the days of SneakerNet, it pretty much is. But it works.
   
   Downside 2: Making sure you have a small paper clip available to pop out the SD/SIM card holder on your phone. (Pro-tip: Don't do that outside on a windy day.)
   
2. If you're at home and using your local WiFi router, grab an FTP client off the Play Store. I use "AndFTP" to push/pull files to/from my Android phone.
   
   Downside: you'll need to have your phone set up to use the WiFi connection your laptop is connecting to and you'll need to configure the FTP client to log into your account on your Linux system.
   
   Bonus: I move large amounts of music onto my phone fairly frequently and the FTP client works really well for that task.

While, YMMV, I've found that either of those are less of a headache than trying to get the MTP connections to work. In my experience, the MTP connections only seem to work worth a darn when a.) dealing with photos and b.) trying to transfer them to Windows (and, maybe, MacOS). Any MTP setup I might have gotten to work that would move photos from phone to Linux was brittle; switching carriers was enough to make a previously working process useless.

HTH...

First of all it should "Just Work" on PopOS, an icon shoul pop up in the filemanager and/or on the desktop.
If it doesn't I suspect either a more low-level problem (phone too old to be recognized?) or a problem on the phone (need to allow MTP connections?).

Also, has helped me when MTP wasn't available.

for me on opensuse all i did was plug in the andriod device and use dolphin to navigate to the folder
then just copy and paste

i got a nice usb pop up notification saying it was connected

Hi,

thank you all for your advice. I will take it under consideration and let you know what method I have used.

Thank you