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Add MTP Support

Registered by Cassidy James Blaede

Many devices, such as all Android 3+ devices and most mp3 players, utilize MTP to transfer data without manually mounting and unmounting volumes. In order to use such a device with Files, MTP support needs to be added.

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libmtp is in Ubuntu's repos.
gmpt (http://gmtp.sourceforge.net/), also in Ubuntu's repos, is a dedicated MTP browser.
mtpfs (http://www.adebenham.com/mtpfs/) is a FUSE fs that attempts to bring MTP support to Linux.

Not the job of a file manager. It could be implemented as a gvfs backend. -- xapantu

xapantu, I think that the idea is use mtp protocol like gmtp does. -- jlnavarro111

You can close it, new versions of gvfs now support mtp (http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/upgrade-to-gvfs-with-mtp-support-in.html) -- jlnavarro111

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