OK, I was trying to get syncthing to copy a file over. It seems to have copied over the entire directory that the file contains, instead. Which isn't what I expected.
But perhaps that's how it works. IMO it's not the most transparent system. I'm still having difficulty understanding what exactly it's doing.
@FaheemMitha So, I take it you still refuse to simply take the cable you use every day to charge your phone with and just connect it to your PC and insist on using some odd workaround.
@FaheemMitha An icon should appear on your desktop. What icon depends on your system. Alternatively, open the file browser and you should see a new mount point. Or just run mount.
Can you please just try what I said: 1) connect the phone 2) select "file transfer" on the phone 3) either look for a new icon on your desktop or just open any file browser (nautilus, nemo whatever) and look for the new device.
I have an Android phone that connects with my computer via MTP. This works fine; I can see and transfer files with Nautilus. However, I often want to use the terminal to move large numbers of files, and I cannot seem to find the device anywhere in the filesystem tree. Nautilus reports the locatio...
If you open in the file browser, you can also get the path. But since you only want to copy a few files, this really seems like one of those rare cases where the GUI is easier.
Just a heads-up if you're managing a Github repository that have Github Actions enabled. You may want to have a look at your running actions, just to make sure that you're not running crypto miners that you don't expect to be running.
