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by tredre3 882 days ago
I've been using Material Files for a couple years now. I use SMB and SFTP access every day. I also use the FTP server to backup my devices once a month. It's a bit slow but still faster and more reliable than using USB! (I don't know why USB support is so bad on Android, transferring thousands of small files is unbearable. Maybe some devices have better support? Maybe it would work better if I used ADB?)

I used to get it from F-Droid but I'm very thankful that the author took the time to put it on the regular app store as well, it's very convenient!
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m-p-3 882 days ago 

    I don't know why USB support is so bad on Android, transferring thousands of small files is unbearable. Maybe some devices have better support? Maybe it would work better if I used ADB?
Android abstracts the phone's filesystem as an MTP device, which is terrible when moving a large amount of small files, at least on Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol

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HeatrayEnjoyer 881 days ago
Why isn't it possible to just mount it directly, like an external drive?
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