On 1/12/19 1:14 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
Tom Ashcraft writes:
Another annoyance is that between Kubuntu 18.04 laptop and Android 8,0 phone, file transfers seem to go only one way, i.e. from the phone to the laptop but not from the laptop to the phone. The only reliable way I've found to move files bidirectionally since they removed usb-storage in KitKat is adb push and pull. You still can't access everywhere on the phone (for instance, there's no reliable way to back up things like contacts or calendar entries), but it works for most files I need to sync, like music, maps and books. Since there's no way to run rsync over adb I wrote an elaborate python script to keep local and phone directories in sync via adb (not posting a link here since it isn't well tested, but if you want to live dangerously, ask).
If you have root on your phone, there are lots of other options: backup and sync apps, ssh daemons, rsync daemons, etc. My phone isn't rooted so none of those help, since a non-root Android app can't write outside its own directory.
...Akkana
All of the above is very interesting, Akkana. Music, maps and books is about all I envision as ever needing to move. Ripped CDs, podcasts and audio books, the occasional large .pdf and .mp3 file are mostly what I care about. I don't need or desire to do any full backups or major syncing. (Well, as an aside, I'll go ahead and throw out for general comment that since I've gone from having Windows 7-and-Linux dual boot machines to Linux machines with Windows 10 in virtual machines only, that access to my iTunes music collection was effectively nuked and now all my music mostly resides only on a deprecated iPod 3 touch. I have yet to figure out a way to move all that material around that actually works reasonably well; that is, how to move all the music off the iPod, into Linux laptop(s) and Android phone SD card. I haven't entirely ruled out physically moving an SD card in and out of the phone, but that option strikes me as being unwise given the exceedingly compact and fragile arrangement.) Your mention of adb and a glance at a quick-and-dirty Duck Duck Go search leads me to believe that it might be worth exploring, but I have no prior familiarity. I know just about enough about scripts and Python to be dangerous, though I might be able to follow explicit instructions or clear examples. My grasp of coding and configuration issues in general is pretty weak, but it does appear that my installed Ghost Commander app can give me all the access to root I might need. I just don't really know what to do with it. Apparently I can ftp with and get an ssh plugin for Ghost Commander too. But again, I don't know that I have the judgement or experience to determine what the most appropriate approaches might be. Further explication and suggestions are welcome from all who might care to offer. Thanks, Tom
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