I know that there are many ways to do this but I want to know which is the best and easy way to do a file transfer.

  • DessalinesA
    17•2 years ago

    Syncthing. Set it up once then forget it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      9•2 years ago

      I use Nextcloud, but same idea. It annoys me to no end that transferring data over network is the easiest approach. I really wish you could just plug in the phone and have it act as a usb drive the way you used to be able to years ago.

    • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
      4•2 years ago

      I recently tried it and I am pretty sure that it was a significant drain on my battery. I wasn’t connected to any other devices though, since I only installed the app and then forgot about it. Do you experience the same behavior?

      • DessalinesA
        11•2 years ago

        Use Syncthing-Fork for android. You can set it to only run once per hour, or click a force start button to immediately sync.

      • 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Legend 🏳️‍🌈
        7•2 years ago

        Yes, I experience this on Android. My solution is to only enable syncthing when the phone is charging (it’s in the settings) but my PC being on and my phone being charged doesn’t usually happen at the same time, so I have another computer in my network act as another node in my syncthing network. This way every night when I charge my phone everything from my PC is synchronized to my second computer, which is always on and can synchronize to my phone.

  • @poVoq
    17•1 year ago

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    • 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Legend 🏳️‍🌈
      7•2 years ago

      Just beat me to the punch, I was about to recommend this. KDE Connect is a wonderful piece of software that works on Windows, Linux and Mac (maybe idk). This only works if you have an android phone though, if it’s between iOS and a pc you’re SOL. The only thing I could really figure out was just uploading all the files from my phone or my PC I wanted to transfer onto gofile. Better than dealing with apple clouds and weird third party apps.

    • TmpodM
      5•2 years ago

      Was about to comment this. Simple and straightforward, no real need to use more complex over-the-network stuff if you’re just sporadically sending some files from one device to the other.

      • Tryp
        5•2 years ago

        Transfer speeds are great too and if you’re on USB-C then you can transfer your entire media library in minutes, I do this every so often to clear space since HD photos and videos are ridiculously huge now.

        • TmpodM
          3•2 years ago

          I mean, MTP is kinda slow cus of the lack of multiplexing, but yeah, it can definitely be faster than network protocols

  • @plexer0
    5•1 year ago

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    • @OccasionallyFeralya
      3•2 years ago

      yep especially KDE connect which is just about perfect for syncing files between devices

  • جيا ميڠ
    5•2 years ago

    i use

    usb cable: adb push/pull

    python3 -m http.server 9000

    ‘Share to Computer’ F-Droid app

  • @loki
    4•2 years ago

    I generally try it with snapdrop first but if for some reason it isn’t working, I use one of the firefox send instance.

    there’s also file.pizza which I never got working.

  • @yxzi
    3•2 years ago

    adb over tcp/ip works like a charm

  • Sam
    1•2 years ago

    If you have some technical ability and are on Android I’d setup sshd on the phone (there are various apps to do this easily) and use rsync(1) or scp(1).

    If you want something less technical, I use the Conversations app on my phone and Dino on my desktop for chat and sometimes send files to myself. Not ideal, but it does work pretty well for one-off smaller files.