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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.
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!