Taildrop is very convenient for sharing files between servers/devices

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

Someone mentioned it in a comment and I genuinely didn't know what I was setting up, but its basically airdrop but to all your devices/servers so if you have an iphone like me you can goto any photo/file click share, taildrop, then pick the device, its a prettty fast transfer. It shows up in the downloads folder on my pc by default.

I no longer have to upload to icloud files to grab my files, it is very convenient and seems to be free forever for personal use up to 100 devices? I had no idea what I was even setting up til I saw the guide afterwards, I thought it was for monitoring server health, but it's made sharing files between devices/servers very convenient. (this was likely obvious, just wanted to share with others who didn't know)

[knossos@lemmy.world]

You can also use something called wormhole. Very handy tech.

[coacoamelky@lemm.ee]

I know it's not the same but I've been using syncthing on a Nas to sync files. Don't really have a tool for file transfers though.

[vext01@lemmy.sdf.org]

Also portal which is LAN aware.

[markstos@lemmy.world]

I use KDE Connect for laptop to desktop transfers.

[keelhaul@sh.itjust.works]

I use snapdrop/pairdrop for quick and easy file transfers, but I found transfers to be quite slow, so this may be an alternative for larger files.

[tangent5280@lemmy.world]

But what about when you want to move a few gigs out of your phone to free up space?

[coacoamelky@lemm.ee]

I've been syncing big files to Nas them deleting them from my phone

[tangent5280@lemmy.world]

Did you turn off two way sync? I thought deleting data from your phone would make the system to interpret the change as an update and delete the data from your Nas too.

[coacoamelky@lemm.ee]

Yeah I turned it off, the Nas only receives and keeps previous versions and the phone only sends. For my other shares it's different.