2 wk. ago • 96%

libmtp error when copying from ntfs to phone on Linux

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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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.

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- I just installed the program but it says that it cannot find any devices.
  
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  Sorry to hear that, I don't have any other recommendations 🙁
  
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Can you read the file with another program from Linux?

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- Do you mean like a different file manager? I just tried using Thunar instead of Nautilis and got the same error.
  
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  No I mean read data out of the file with another program like a video player or emulator, or just open it in a text editor.
  
  I was thinking this would test whether the problem is with reading from that NTFS partition, which the error message points to.
  
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