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Could I bump your thread while asking "to what purpose would you mount your phone (or anything else, for that matter) using gvfs?"?
EDIT:
Sorry, maybe a better question would be "are you running the gvfsd daemon"?
and does this site offer no help? https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs
Last edited by STDOUBT; 02-06-2015 at 08:11 PM.
Reason: to hopefully provide actual, helpful infos
It seems that connecting the phone to the computer works but not all the time. After repeated failures, and also trying to use, gmpt, switching to PTP mode I was able to connect to the phone. Then switching back to MTP suddenly it appeared and I was able to see the files. This may be a hardware issue not a software/linux issue.
It seems that gvfs is typically used by GUI apps to mount things. But, to mount phones, you really need libmtp. gvfs is just a frontend for it in some file managers when you type mtp:// (like thunar, but not kde). It might be worth grabbing the latest libmtp, because it is outdated on Slack 14.1.
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