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by m-p-3 883 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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Why isn't it possible to just mount it directly, like an external drive?