only works in debug mode on OS X Mavericks

[risacher]

simple-mtpfs only works for me in debug mode. If I don't use debug mode, it will appear to succeed, but the mounted directory is empty. When using "simple-mtpfs -d ~/mtp" the mount succeeds and actually accesses files.

FWIW, tested with an Kindle Fire HDX and HTC One, both of which are unrecognized devices by libmtp at this time.

[phatina]

It bould be fine, if those devices are recognized by libmtp. See libmtp devel page to add your devices.

[risacher]

As it turns out, both devices are recognized by libmtp in git, but were not in version 1.1.6, which was what I had installed via Homebrew (http://brew.sh/). I haven't gotten around to testing yet with the updated libmtp because I'm not familiar enough with Homebrew. Like most things, it's probably easy if you know how to do it.

[jameskermode]

I just had the same experience with a Google/LG Nexus 5 on Mac OS X Mavericks. I also tried with libmtp build from the latest git sources and got the same result: the mount only works when the -d/--debug argument to simple-mtpfs is given. I'm happy to provide more information, e.g. the debug output from simple-mtpfs if it would be useful.

[phatina]

I can mount my Nexus 5 to Fedora box (f20) without any problem.

[varkey]

Same experience with a Google Nexus 7 on OS X Mavericks. Worked fine in debug mode.

Used the libmtp available on home-brew.

[JeremyLaurenson]

All, I am trying to get this project going on OSX and am having little luck. I admit, I am an XCode user looking to get access to an MTP device and so my knowledge of standard Linux/Unix tools is limited. I would appreciate any help in getting this project up and running on OSX.

[pranav-prakash]

+1 here. Only works in debug mode.

[pranav-prakash]

Ok it seems that it is not debug mode which is the thing, it is foreground mode.

So running:

simple-mtpfs -f /Users/cs/Desktop/nexus will work

Ok, found the problem:

Running in the background disabled because of an imcompatiblity between fork and libmtp under Max OS X

[terinjokes]

I installed with homebrew with osxfuse and running in the foreground doesn't work either. Even with -o debug I get no output.

[pranav-prakash]

@terinjokes Here try my fork;

https://github.com/pranav-prakash/jmtpfs

[JonnieCache]

I'm similarly only seeing it work with foreground operation. I'm on OSX 10.9.5, using mtpfs "stable 0.2" and libmtps 1.1.10, both installed from homebrew. I'm using a Moto G.

Thanks for making an alternative to android file transfer and extracating the SD card from my phone every time!

[troex]

Confirm. Only working with -f or -d. So it's probably foreground issue. Without -f it starts but burns 100% CPU, volume shows as mounted but device is empty.

[phatina]

I will try to reproduce this asap. Thanks.

[erikdoe]

I came here because, like @terinjokes above, mounting wouldn't work at all. It turns out that the problem was that I tried a mount point under /Volumes. Once I created a mount point on my desktop (and I used the foreground mode) things started to work.

[ghost]

To mount on /Volumes, try:

sudo mkdir /Volumes/VOLUME_NAME # create directory sudo chmod -N /Volumes/VOLUME_NAME # remove access control restrictions sudo chown USER_NAME /Volumes/VOLUME_NAME # allow user access simple-mtpfs -f /Volumes/VOLUME_NAME # mount

Question: is this incompatibility between fork and libmtp under Max OS X possible to be fixed?