https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409870

--- Comment #2 from Jon <jfbcommerc...@gmail.com> ---
I've verified that this is a "feature" rather than a bug.  Sometime between the
release of the Android KDE Connect app version 1.8.4, circa May 2018 and the
1.10 version circa November 2018, the software was updated to use the Android
"Storage Access Framework", and "using /storage/emulated/0 directly is no
longer allowed", according to reddit user /u/albertvaka.  So, the bottom line
is that if one is using Ubuntu 16.04 or earlier, they must use the 1.8.4
Android app.  If using Ubuntu 18.04 or later, they may use any version after
10.1, including the current version at the Google Play Store (1.12.93).  If
using a 17.x release, you're on your own to figure out which works---I wasn't
able to find reliable releases to download and test.

I would suggest to the Android KDE Connect app folks that it would have been
nice to detect being connected to an incompatible version of the desktop
software and give a warning---that would have saved me some considerable time
trying to figure out what was going on here.  The message "/primary does not
exist." in the file browser isn't very helpful in suggesting incompatible
desktop vs. app software.

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