Thread: MTP Android. Scanning entire SD card
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Old 06-05-2024, 01:04 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
MTP is *extremely* flaky I wouldnt even try to make it work with more than a few hundred books. I suggest you temporarily move the extra folder off and then create and empy one and exclude it and then move it back, then it wont be scanned.
That's exactly what I did.

1. So I wondered could the default be that no new folder/directory is scanned unless manually added?

2. Why does the SD Card now appear as main on "Device" Column and Send to Device? Selecting Card A fails.

3. Is it a bug you can only change scanned folders on the SD Card OR Internal Storage, but not both at the same time? Was it always like that?

Spoiler:
My experience of MTP is on Win98, Win2k, XP, Win7, Win 10, Redhat/CentOS, Rasparian, Debian, DSL, Suse, Mint and Ubuntu. Gadgets including Android 4.x to 13 plus others. Maybe before Zune and Android existed.

MTP is horrible

Actually, about 80G was files on all my computers and server and just a copy, so I deleted the contents. SD card in USB reader is 5 Mbps and SD card via Tablet MTP on Caja is 8 to 11 Mbps. Too slow for 80 Gbyte! I'll set it up copying back when I go to bed.

I'm glad my actual ereaders use USB Mass Storage.
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