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On 2026-05-11, Jim Diamond <
zsd@jdvb.ca> wrote:
> On 2026-05-10 at 18:40 ADT, Brian Howlett
<
news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:
>> Hi.
>
>> I recently had cause to try getting some photos off my phone on to my Pi5.
>> I was able to see the root folder on the phone when allowing PTP transport
>> on the phone, but was unable to navigate to any of the sub-folders.
>
>> Presumably this is a permissions issue, but as the subject is somewhat
>> arcane to me, can anyone advise how I can get in to the DCIM folder on the
>> phone?
>
>> This was the same whether the phone was plugged in via USB cable, or
>> connected by Bluetooth.
>
>> Any advice gratefully received.
>
> I have termux on my phone, which lets you use ssh to log in to the phone
> from your laptop, and also lets you use scp to transfer files back and
> forth.
>
> termux` sshd is not run by default, but you can either run it from the
> termux window or you could put a call to it in the shell`s init file.
>
> I find it much nicer to ssh in and cd around than to hunt using a gui file
> manager, but YMMV.
Indeed. Even nicer is using sshfs to mount the phones files into your
own work space on a the pi or, e.g. on my linux desktop.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/how-to-use-sshfs-on-linux/
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