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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2022-07-12T16:15:59Z"
+ content="""
+How unfortunate that Android on your phone does not support `find -printf`.
+What version of Android is that? I've tested a few and they do support it.
+
+Reverting [[!commit a32ff6cef03ceb695af7bc6415ae7eaac06d3443]] would
+certainly avoid this problem. But that commit did solve a bug in supporting
+large numbers of files.
+
+Android's find is (probably) from toybox, and looking at its changelog, 
+`find -printf` was added in May 2019, version 0.8.1. So versions of Android
+before 2020 or so will probably have too old a version.
+
+Maybe git-annex should have an option for older versions of android that
+falls back to using `find -exec stat {} ;`. That would be a lot slower,
+since it would run stat once per file, but it would work. Or it could
+fall back to the old `find +` behavior that is limited to a certain number
+of files. Or, it could consume the `find` output, segment it into groups of
+files itself, and run `adb stat` on each group. Which would be somewhat
+slower than using xargs, and potentially hard to get right.
+"""]]