I cannot transfer photos and videos from the SD card in my phone (Gallaxy S5 Neo). I plug in the phone, tap "Allow" to transfer files and I can then see the phone mounted in Nautilus. I go to Card/DCIM/Camera in Nautilus and the spinning wheel shows up. Then it takes minutes to display the contents of the folder. When I click on one of the files Nautilus freezes and a "force quit" window shows up.
It seems to be related to a recent update as I was able to transfer files on Ubuntu 17.10 before. I've tried rebooting both my phone and my computer. Any suggestions to transfer the files via USB cable?
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I have a similar issue with a Galaxy S6. I discovered that some images get filenames with parentheses at the end, like ...(0).jpg. It seems like Nautilus hangs when trying to list those images and ultimately fails. I moved them to a new directory on the phone, and Nautilus was noticeably faster in loading DCIM/Camera directory. I then tried to load the new directory with < 20 images with parentheses and Nautilus failed again. Renaming the files to remove the parentheses fixed everything.