Can't upload media from my FP6 to my Macbook

Help Fairphone 6
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Hello. So I can’t seem to make my FP6 connect with my MacBook via USB. I’ve tried various different cables, some USBC some A. Some of them work in the sense that I can open the option to select “file transfer” by swiping down on the phone (other USBs don’t even offer that option they only charge). However none of them work with Android File Transfer. It always says that the connection was unsuccessful…is there a different app I can use? Is anyone else experiencing this? It’s pretty annoying as I really urgently need to upload some camera footage for work related things. By the way I have the latest system update installed. Grateful for any help from you lovely Fairphone users!!

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It’s a long shot, but perhaps there’s something in the thread cannot connect Fairphone 6 e/os to mac that can help you.

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An alternative for Android File Transfer is OpenMTP.

Other options are also mentioned here:

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Thanks so much both of you. That really helped. I got it to work with OpenMTP. Turned out I also had to change my settings in the image capture app to stop the Photos app from opening automatically as that was blocking OpenMTP. All working fine now. Big thank you for the leads, they took me in the right direction

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Solution found, thanks so much for your help!!

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Thanks so much!!! Solved!

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Hi all, sorry to bother you all with a (hopefully) small issue I cannot solve. I have a Fairphone 6 Murena and want to transfer files with my MacBook. I used to have an Android Fairphone 4+ and used Android File Transfer. But my new F6 doesn’t allow that (no device found). I also installed MacDroid on my MacBook and could not connect: “this device is used by pid 693, Android Flie tra”, while Android File Transfer was not active. Is there some security issue? What am I doing wrong?

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If you are on the same network, I very often use https://localsend.org/ (open source and available via F-Droid). Beware that it may not work on corporate networks due to more stricter firewall policies.

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Hi,

To transfer wirelessly rather then via USB you could use Cx Files Explorer as recommended by Jelger_van_Dijk in the Forum thread: fp6-file-manager-and-gallery.

I use it on an FP3 to transfer between Android, Linux and Windows devices.

Regards,

John

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I have recommended this already in another thread. You could give “KDE Connect” a try. I use it for a while and it does file transfers (and more) very reliably.

Regards Stephan