Products · Pattern or everyday thing
MTP file transfer
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2012–2019), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with MTP file transfer, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Files can't be copied to or from Samsung S8+ phones on Linux; transfer is hit-and-miss2019-05-21
- MTP transfers are slow and unreliable, so people use Dropbox instead2016-05-05
- Everyone hates how the phone's MTP file access works when connected to a PC2013-02-04
- MTP mounting is finicky on Linux and Windows, forcing slow Wi-Fi FTP workarounds2012-12-01