I recently bought the new Nexus 5x and Google's official USB Type-C to USB A cable. Weirdly, upon plugging my N5X into my computer for the first time, the file system did not come up as expected. What show as folders locally on my device, show up as binary files on Ubuntu 15.10. I've never seen this behaviour before in any Android device via MTP. (Everything worked fine on my old Moto G on Android 5.1.x...)
Screenshot of the issue in Nautilus:
This is not just an issue with Nautilus though, as listing the files in the terminal also does not properly recognise certain folders.
$ pwd
/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A001%2C014%5D/Internal storage
$ ls -la --group-directories-first
total 29
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Dec 31 1969 .
dr-x------ 1 sec sec 0 Dec 31 1969 ..
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Jan 29 1970 Alarms
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 16:38 Android
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 21:21 com.facebook.orca
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 20:54 DCIM
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 20:41 Download
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 23 13:12 edmodo
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Jan 29 1970 Movies
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Jan 29 1970 Music
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Jan 29 1970 Notifications
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 20:30 owncloud
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 20:45 Pictures
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Jan 29 1970 Podcasts
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Jan 29 1970 Ringtones
drwx------ 1 sec sec 0 Nov 21 21:41 yahoo
-rw------- 1 sec sec 4096 Nov 21 20:40 APG
-rw------- 1 sec sec 4096 Nov 21 20:40 data
-rw------- 1 sec sec 4096 Nov 21 20:40 Kik
-rw------- 1 sec sec 11 Nov 21 20:38 .nds
-rw------- 1 sec sec 63 Nov 21 20:46 pia vpn.txt
-rw------- 1 sec sec 4096 Nov 21 20:40 .secure
-rw------- 1 sec sec 4096 Nov 21 20:40 Snapseed
-rw------- 1 sec sec 8192 Nov 21 20:40 Tumblr
Notice that APG
, data
, Kik
, .secure
, Snapseed
, and Tumblr
all show as -rw-------
files when they should be shown as regular directories. Has anyone had a similar problem / solution?