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On Mon, 11 May 2026 11:14:42 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> On my Android devices (Sony phone and Samsung tablet, both Android
> 16) the I select "File transfer" rather than "PTP", and I can
> navigate anywhere. ISTRT the required setting on an earlier device
> was "MTP".
>
> PTP is a rather more specialized (i.e. limited) protocol and seems
> to be designed to enable the PC to use the phone as a digital camera
> -- you`d have to be running something on the PC that understood
> cameras rather than a general-purpose file manager.
I thought PTP was the earlier protocol, while MTP was the later
generalization:
PTP -- transfer only pictures
MTP -- ?M? for media -- transfer other stuff, not just pictures
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