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The libgphoto2 camera access and control library.
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Please support file deletion on Sony ILCE-5000 #375

Open wferi opened 5 years ago

wferi commented 5 years ago

$ gphoto2 --summary reports:

Camera summary:                                                                
Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
Model: ILCE-5000
  Version: 1.0
  Serial Number: 00000000000000003282653003868103
Vendor Extension ID: 0x11 (1.0)

Capture Formats: 
Display Formats: Association/Directory, MPEG, JPEG, Unknown(b982), Unknown(b301), Undefined Type, ARW, Unknown(b310)

Device Capabilities:
    File Download, No File Deletion, No File Upload
    No Image Capture, No Open Capture, No vendor specific capture

Storage Devices Summary:
store_00010001:
    StorageDescription: Storage Media
    VolumeLabel: None
    Storage Type: Removable RAM (memory card)
    Filesystemtype: Generic Hierarchical
    Access Capability: Read-Only
    Maximum Capability: 15811477504 (15079 MB)
    Free Space (Bytes): 7838924800 (7475 MB)
    Free Space (Images): -1

Device Property Summary:
Battery Level(0x5001):(read only) (type=0x2) Enumeration [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,100] value: 100% (100)
Property 0xd402:(read only) (type=0x0) Undefined
Property 0xd406:(readwrite) (type=0x0) Undefined
Property 0xd407:(read only) (type=0x6) 1
Property 0xd303:(read only) (type=0x2) 1

And trying to delete a file from the storage (SD card) indeed reports *** Error (-6: 'Unsupported operation') ***. This hinders the GVFS operations too, of course. Removing pictures using the camera buttons after copying them to the computer is not only inconvenient but also risky. Is adding read-write support for this model feasible? Is there anything I could help with?

msmeissn commented 5 years ago

It seems delete is not supported here. Neither the Delete command is avialable, nor does the "store" report deletability (it is set read-only)

Not sure if was set on camera, or if the SD Card was marked readonly perhaps.

wferi commented 5 years ago

Taking and deleting pictures via the camera controls is possible, so the SD card is writable. I'm also pretty sure MTP write access can't be disabled in the camera menus. I thought delete over MTP is such a fundamental function that it must be supported by the camera, but it may not be the case after all...