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On 12/05/2026 00:09, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
>> 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:
Yes, indeed.
I don`t think that contradicts what I wrote. PTP was the earlier
protocol, specifically for cameras, which was later generalized to
support full file transfer as a replacement for USB mass-storage.
Sorry for any confusion.
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Daniel.
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