Downloading big files from camera

On Mint downloading files from a camera using the gphoto2 automount and caja can be very slow on big files. An efficient alternative is to use gphotofs.

First create a directory for further mounting of the camera


sudo mkdir /media/mtp 
sudo chmod 777 -R /media/mtp

Then  unmount the device automatically mounted by gphoto2 and then you can mount your camera as follows

sudo gphotofs /media/mtp -o allow_other

To unmount

sudo fusermount -u /media/mtp

Then you can use a terminal and copy files, e.g.

cd /media/mtp/*
cp */*.MOV~/Images

This process is much faster than with caja