One solution for FFS freezing when syncing through MTP to Android storage

[ToneM]

I've been wrestling with syncing through MTP to several phones over the years.

Whenever I ran a sync to my Android mobile phone storage through MTP, FFS just froze for ages. I tried leaving it for a long while, as others suggested. That didn't work - it'd throw a few files across then freeze and lose the MTP connection.

Finally, I've sussed it. FFS gets stuck on .nomedia files.

I had accumulated 11 .nomedia files scattered throughout my music library. I've now deleted them all from the local library and the phone, except for one in the library parent directory.

I now sync a subdirectory of the parent directory where the .nomedia file is. FFS now works fine and fast.

I thought I'd never get there, as I've hammered away at this problem a load of times then given up for the time being.

Hopefully, this'll work for other users hitting the same brick wall as I was.

[xCSxXenon]

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