MTP doesn't work all that well on Linux even when it works. The real easy and best solution is 'Wifi File Explorer' which runs a web server on your phone which you can access from the desktop computer and transfer files & folders between them. I use Fedora for desktop system and I definitely still use Wifi File Explorer. I think most people are using cloud storage with the smart phones these days and that makes for tepid enthusiasm for attempting to maintain any type of synchronization between a single desktop system and the smart phone. The cloud or running Wifi File Explorer on your smart phone becomes a solution that allows you to add other computers and devices into the equation at any time. Craig On May 24, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Rock wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:17 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> On more current distributions, that is, just about everything but RHEL6 and >> clones, one can install a version of mtpfs, simple-mtpfs on Fedora, for >> example, jmtpfs on Arch, and get it to work. > > Just my luck that Centos is one of those linuxes that are problematic. > > Anyway, here's the summary: > a) Connecting the Samsung Galaxy S3 by USB (fails) > b) Connecting that phone by Kies Air (fails for multiple files, no error message!) > c) Connecting that phone by AirDroid (works! Even for multiple files!) > > Slow. Cumbersome. But all that matters is that files can be transferred > from the Samsung Galaxy SIII to the Centos 6 PC. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos