can anyone advise me how to copy photos on a USB to Librem mini seams imposible to me to get any help on machine ??? HELP PLEASE
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I don’t have a Mini, but…
Insert USB drive, explore the contents of the USB drive from the Mini’s file browser, select desired photos, copy, go to desired destination folder on the Mini, paste… ?
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You haven’t provided enough information. What have you tried? What results are you getting? Are you getting an error message? If so, what is that error message?
Is this a USB flash drive? A USB portable drive?
What capacity?
Where are the photos coming from?
If this is not an already existing USB flash drive of photos then take into account what file system type you should use.
If the photos are coming from another Linux system then a file system type of ext4 (or another in the ext series) would be highly desirable.
If the photos are coming from Windows then a FAT file system would be a reasonable compromise.
Also, as there is some discussion about Librem Mini USB port tuning in this forum, can you confirm whether the USB port is working at all? And is this a Librem Mini v1 or v2?
To be honest, I would more often move files between computers using the network (no messing around with sneakernet) but I guess if you have GBs of photos, that might be unreasonably slow.
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thank you it worked… sure miss how easy windows worked to get around…
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just a few photos that i had from my iphone. i have to transfer them to my windows machine then to USB. from USB to Librem mini v2. i just got this mini v2. i did it the way Amarok advised me. and it worked. not easy to move the photos to a directory . so very little help on using this mini v2 it’s rather hard to learn when there is no help. it is my first lenix machine. my son advised me on buying it. helped me a bit yet he is no where to be found now he is in Oregon…
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FWIW, I just plug my iPhone in to my Linux computer via USB, the iPhone photo directory comes up in the file explorer GUI application, I copy and paste the photos to a local directory using that GUI application, job done. That is to say, it should not be necessary to involve Windows or a USB drive. (This Linux computer isn’t a Librem Mini but it should make no difference. This isn’t running PureOS, which could make some difference.)
Next time you find your son, I suggest you get him to arrange (secure) remote access for himself in to your computer so that he can help you (assuming that your and his internet access is half decent).
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