[Novalug] copying photographs from Samsung S4 Galaxy with Ubuntu 14.04

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Wed Apr 22 22:07:54 EDT 2015


On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, pereira via Novalug wrote:

> It didn't seem to, which is why I asked. But, it turns out, there was a
> Samsung icon on my desktop, hidden under the text terminals that I'm
> working on. The whole desktop, which I still refer to as the screen if
> you want to know, is usually covered by text terminals....
>
> Stupid question, sorry....
>
> Still, I can click on things that seem to be in the phone:
> I see lifevibes, com.samsung,.android.app.episodes, flipboard.app,
> all kinds of garbage I have no idea about.
>
> Anyway, I can now go forward. Thank you for your input.

look for a folder called DCIM that is a common name for the camera picture 
folder

>
> Nino
>
>
> On 04/22/2015 09:31 PM, greg pryzby wrote:
>> 
>> Plug it in. My system opened a browser and I could drag/drop.
>> 
>> greg pryzby
>> mobile response
>> 
>> On Apr 22, 2015 8:46 PM, "pereira via Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net 
>> <mailto:novalug@firemountain.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi All,
>>
>>     I'm trying to copy pictures from my phone to my computer, running
>>     (of  course) linux, Ubuntu 14.04. I've asked my friend Google, but she
>>     doesn't give an answer I can understand: it appears there's a lot of
>>     problems in this area. Reportedly, one option is a program called
>>     gMPT, but I can't find this, nor can I find go-mptfs or simple-mptfs:
>>     I went for the last one, but to no avail.
>>
>>     Any suggestions?
>>
>>     Thank you,
>>
>>     Nino
>>
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