<div dir="ltr">There's always "Plan B":d/l the images to the machine directly and then let digiKam handle them from there. Sure, it's an extra step or two. Given the current problem, though, it may be the easiest way to fix the problem. :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 5:49 AM, Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well, the PTP protocol is implement through Gphoto2 driver. If this kind of error appear, this can be a dysfunction located in Gphoto2 driver.<div><br></div><div>To have more details about, run the appimage from a console and look debug trace printed while you try to read the phone contents.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-02-11 4:30 GMT+01:00 Tony Bazeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyb@sa.apana.org.au" target="_blank">tonyb@sa.apana.org.au</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I'm a bit new to digikam, and having trouble with import
procedures.<br>
Am trying to import from a Huawei P9 phone, configured to PTP
mode.</p>
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import using the generic USB PTP Class camera or the digikam
suggested option "Huawei P9 Plus" both yield the same error:<br>
<i>"Failed to connect to the camera. Please make sure it is
connected properly and turned on."</i></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I'm using
digikam-5.8.0-01-x86-64 under Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Would very
much appreciate any thoughts on how to proceed.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">TIA</p><span class="m_9212413212190661069HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Tony<br>
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