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I have an Android tablet running on Lineage OS and am trying to copy a large file (program settings) onto it using USB to my laptop.

Context: I have drawing program Clip Studio Paint on S7 Tablet running on original Samsung OS. I want to copy ClipStudio userdata file onto S6 Lineage OS. I have no issues doing this with the S7, I can go into any file. I try to do it on the S6 a minute later and the error occurs.

On the S6 I can copy simple things, such as pictures and text files into my download folder via usb no problem, but when I go deeper into files like the programs userdata, I hit the "Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Userdata":libmtp error: could not get object handles."

What I have tried:

  • Tablet in developer mode, USB debugging is on, & Default USB configuration is set to File transfer - no change
  • In the terminal I checked mtp-detect, got the following:
mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.1.21

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung Galaxy models (MTP).
   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: Galaxy models (MTP) (04e8:6860) @ bus 3, dev 13
Attempting to connect device(s)
libusb_claim_interface() reports device is busy, likely in use by GVFS or KDE MTP device handling alreadyLIBMTP PANIC: Unable to initialize device
Unable to open raw device 0
OK.

I tried finding something on the report message above, but I'm afraid it all got a little complicated. I do believe my libmtb version is out of date, I still have no idea how to install the update from tar.gz after looking into it)

Now I'm stumped.

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