i got a sony DSC H1, recognized as sony DSC-f707V by libgphoto2 (in gtkam and gthumb), so i can download but cant delete files from the camera. ps: and i can't mount it as an usbstorage.
this is going to be difficult for us to solve w/o having that exact hardware. (deleting works fine here) have you tried using gphoto2 on the command line? beware, this command will delete all images on your camera: gphoto2 --delete-all-files you can also delete specific ones, just do gphoto2 --help for more options. report back results.
Created attachment 77173 [details] gphoto2 --delete-all-files --debug in time I realized, there is an option in the Sony's setup, which was set to PTP mode, and i switched it to Normal, and I can mount it as an usb-storage since. in Normal mode i can't use it with gphoto2, it does not recognize it. so i switch back to PTP now for the test. and ran: gphoto2 --delete-all-files --debug 2>/tmp/gphoto2-sony-debug and attached it, hope you can use it. the files still aren't deleted from it.
It seems to be that according to upstream, your camera model wasn't supported until 2.2.1. So please try that version and reopen the bug if there is still that problem.