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libmtp error when copying from ntfs to phone on Linux
(midwest.social)
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.
How are you mounting your NTFS disk? If you're using the mount cli as root you may need to add the uid mount option
I mounted it using fstab
Ah definitely add some mount options to give yourself access, uid and gid would be a good place to start, I think there may be others.
Some info https://askubuntu.com/questions/113733/how-to-mount-a-ntfs-partition-in-etc-fstab
Thanks for linking me to the to this page. I did some more diging and I managed to figure out the actual problem. I was using a program called CompactGUI2 which allows you to use the NTFS file comprssion to save space. The minute I uncompressed the files from the Windows side I saw the Lock icons go away when I booted back into Linux.
Cool! That's new to me, thanks for sharing your solution!