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Old 08-30-2023, 05:35 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
, and you need to tap the Disconnect button to disconnect. It no longer appears as a drive in Finder.

Android File Transfer is now required on Mac (sigh) to transfer content.

Calibre still detects it, but Eject this device no longer works (closes the calibre connection but leaves it connected to Mac), and Show books seems to show things it didn't used to (including things in Internal Storage/), and what it shows as In Library matches some of these Internal Storage items. Send to device seems to work. No doubt we are going to need a calibre update to fix some of this.

I don't know what has changed for Windows or Linux, but perhaps someone else will report about those.
MTP is horrible. The only advantage is to hide the real file system. A second reason was maybe to do with DRM on the Zune. Also only one process can connect. As MS invented the horror for the Zune (possibly) Windows now has some cunning method of sharing MTP to the processes. I think in Vista if the Media Player was open nothing else could connect to MTP device.

On Linux you have to disable "automount" of MTP or else your filemanager is the ONLY way to do I/O. Some Linux desktops don't disable MTP automount, so you have go to System Monitor > Processes, browse for gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor and right click "stop" (not Kill or it auto-re-spawns). Then connect the device and Calibre can detect it & use it. I think Android uses it since version 4 or 5, but it's actually MS USB-MTP. Naturally I find my Android phones and tablets annoying.

One wonders is it a plan to ditch having a FAT32 partition and use the superior Ext4 (which Windows doesn't understand) for all of the Scribe.

This makes the Scribe less attractive. However the worse ereader for connection is still the reMarkable. It uses USB networking (or WiFi to reMarkable's server) and the only alternative to reMarkable client SW is to use a browser, drag & drop one file at a time to the browser.

Not in Finder? Well, MTP is Media Transfer Protocol, not a file system!

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MS Zune release November 14, 2006
MS Vista release November 8, 2006

Of course Vista had the new MTP built in, and oddly Zune didn't support Plays For Sure

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