How to transfer files from Samsung mobile to Mint 20.3?

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How to transfer files from Samsung mobile to Mint 20.3?

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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra mobile and PC running Linux Mint 20.3.
On connecting with USB cable I get a message on the phone "Allow access to phone data? Deny/Allow"
selecting "Allow" I see a SAMSUNG Android icon on the PC Desktop screen together with a message:

"Could not display "mtp://SAMSUNG_SAMSUNG_Android_R3CN80MR7ZL/"
Error: no such interface "org.gtk.vfs.Mount" on object at path /org/gtk/vfs/-mount/1
Please select another viewer and try again"

By double clicking the Android icon I can nevertheless see the contents of the phone, for example, the photos in Internal Storage/DCIM/Camera
But if I try to copy anything I get the message:

"Error getting file list: Can't get data from remote machine (application/octet-stream not provided))"

What should I do to transfer files from the mobile to my PC?
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Re: How to transfer files from Samsung mobile to Mint 20.3?

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There are 2 more options:

Bluetooth
Warpinator (needs to be installed on the phone).
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Re: How to transfer files from Samsung mobile to Mint 20.3?

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Your other option is KDE connect, also install both ends, worked for me yesterday when warpinator wouldn't. There is also GSConnect, which is the gnome version, never tried it.
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SOLVED: Re: How to transfer files from Samsung mobile to Mint 20.3?

Post by DougB »

Many thanks.
Warpinator (flatpak) 1.2.12 on the PC and Warpinator (Android) on the phone works fine
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