On 16 Oct 2018 12:26:01 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

For your purpose, you're not looking for file *transfer*, but for file
*access* (open, read, write, close, etc.) or/and file-*system* access.

You, Frank Slootweg, and Paul, were the only ones who even _understood_ the
problem set.

That's interesting, in two ways:
1. Your posts were purposefully helpful (you and Paul),
2. While this thread is _filled_ with purposefully unhelpful posts.

The question is what quirk of personality makes those many trolls feel the
need to incessantly post to a thread that they clearly don't even
comprehend?

All they ever prove is that they don't comprehend even the simplest things.
o *Common Trolls*: Rudy Wieser, Wolf K, Char Jackson,
o *One-Shot Trolls*: Ken Blake, Danny DeVito, Sam Hill, Good Guy, joe

My theory is that these trolls hate that they're stupid.
So they attempt to respond to common keywords, such as "usb" & "mtp".

But all they ever prove, is that they're just stupid.

Those indeed do not look promising. They seem totally unrelated (to
MTPdrive).

Agreed.

The need for a more universal solution so that everyone can benefit has
been a "holy grail" of sorts, ever since around 4,3 when Android lost its
basic USB Mass Storage capability.

Those, with intelligence, see the power in the ability to run _any_ Windows
command on the device file system, just as Linux has always been able to
do.

Knowing that only you and Paul even understood the problem set, but that
neither you nor Paul has a solution (yet), the tribal knowledge, at the
moment is going to have to be moved forward by me, where the only solution
that works over USB appears to be this MTPdrive payware.

Good luck on your quest.

Even though only two people proved they even understood the problem posed
here, I suspect there are ten times that (i.e., about a score of people) on
these newsgroups who are intelligent enough to solve this problem.

Given that there are only about a score of people on these combined
newsgroups with the intelligence required to move the ball forward, it's
likely just too difficult of a task to solve at the moment, perhaps, using
Usenet mechanisms.

I asked a similar question of the freeware experts, who are of like mind:
https://alt.comp.freeware.narkive.com/FEgxbfvy/does-freeware-exist-on-windows-that-will-mount-as-a-drive-letter-android-connected-via-usb-as-mtp