[mdlug] My Jeep ate my audio files

R Kannan rk111810 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 09:50:49 EDT 2022


I was able to resolve the gMTP issue by making the device present itself 
as 'MTP device' instead of 'Auto Detect'. gMTP works fine with the 
device but I need to upload all my audio files again !!

On 6/11/22 3:57 PM, Raymond Ingles wrote:
> Seems likely that it formatted the thing...
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:54 PM R Kannan <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>
>> I had an old MTP player (believe with a vfat file system)  and I used
>> gMTP to upload audio files into it. I tried connecting it through USB in
>> my new Jeep but it could not handle the MTP protocol for some reason.
>> Then I made it present itself as a file system it could recognize it but
>> said there is no audio files in the player. Lo and behold, all the files
>> seemed to have been wiped out. I could not read the player from gMTP
>> anymore. I could browse the file system after switching to file system
>> interface.
>>
>> Any ideas on what had happened. Fortunately I have all the audio (mp3)
>> files on my Ubuntu desktop and I can upload all of them if I can get the
>> MTP protocol to work.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>>
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