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Dirk T. Verbeek wrote, on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:48:55 +0200:

An interesting difference.

There are others, but some are harder to reproduce.

For example, Dolphin often weirds out on me, especially with Android. It
will copy, but it won't paste. I try again. It still won't do it. I try
again, and then it does it. I can't figure out why. Nautilus never has
that problem unless the phone goes to sleep or if I accidentally pull the phone off the USB cable. Otherwise, Nautilus is fine but Dolphin weirds
out.

Also, the Dolphin right-click resize and the right click open terminal
here are harder to find on Dolphin than on Nautilus. It's almost like the difference between Microsoft Word and Notepad menus, for simple stuff.

One PITA oddity of Dolphin is that sometimes I just want to copy a single picture from Android to Linux /tmp/. and Dolphin often says it can't copy
it. It gives a permission problem. Doesn't happen all the time, but
happens enough that it's just odd. There are no permission problems in /
tmp, and it won't even copy to a directory that I create using Dolphin
in /tmp. Just weird. Flaky. Not tested well, I presume.

I can understand why you have to be careful renaming *system
directories* but hey, it works for you!

It has been working for years for me.
My use model is simple, and I always use USB cable because of speed.
(I never use Bluetooth or WiFi to transfer pictures.)
I also use the sdcard since this is phone has an sdcard.

a. I copy over pictures from sdcard DCIM/Camera as needed, to the PC
b. When done copying, I rename Android DCIM/Camera to DCIM/Camera_##
c. After about 3.5GB, I move them all to an Android DCIM/burn folder
d. I burn them to DVD, and then delete the Android DCIM/burn folder
e. Every once in a while, I format the sd card.

I have been doing this for years, especially on the Google-based phones,
which don't have microSD cards.

I'm checking this on my Nexus7 and notice the same.
Dolphin does not allow a rename on any files and directories yet I don't
see anything in the ownership preventing this.

Thank you for confirming this important point.

There's *something* in Dolphin that doesn't like to change Android directories, which is not in Nautilus.

But as root (Action menu) I *can* change names, it just doesn't show up
until refreshing Dolphin (F5).
So that'll be a way you can continue your old work flow using Dolphin.

That's interesting. Thanks for figuring that out. Actually, Dolphin is so
slow and problematic that I'm perfectly happy using Nautilus instead.

I can also make a new directory Camera2 but I can't directly copy photos
from the original Camera to Camera2, does that work in Nautilus?

Interestingly. Let me try this with my Samsung Galaxy S3 and Nautilus.
Oh oh. That fails in Nautilus for me too.
http://oi59.tinypic.com/jb4akx.jpg

Here's what I did:
a. Connect phone by USB and ensure it is logged in
b. Navigate with Nautilus to sdcard DCIM
c. Right click to create a new directory "DCIM/camera2".
d. Navigate to and select a file to copy from DCIM/Camera/*.jpg
e. Navigate to and paste that copy to "DCIM/camera2/."

http://oi59.tinypic.com/jb4akx.jpg

Error while copying filename.jpg
There was an error copying the file into mtp://[usb:003,004]/Card/DCIM/camera2.
Operation unsupported.

I wonder why?

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