Quickly transferring files between PC and phone

[electric_nan@lemmy.ml]

I use KDEConnect. I don't know about iPhone but it works with Android, Linux and Windows.

[hawk@lemmynsfw.com]

From memory MTP is pretty flaky and quite slow.

ADB push is pretty good but at that stage rsync is just as easy.

Put SSH in the phone and you can do it all from the computer too.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

For a single file, I just use Bluetooth. For a lot of files, or a really big file, I plug my phone into the PC and set it to storage device.

[hawk@lemmynsfw.com]

Maybe snapdrop?

When I was obsd I did FTP and rsync for everything. Syncthing had dinner performance issues for me.

Maybe Seafile but I had a bad time with that.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

I have tried to use KDEconnect over and over, It doesn't work on my work network, it doesn't work on most of my home network, If my laptop my cell phone come up as different IPs it gets confused. It's discoverability is just absolutely horrible except for a select number of plain vanilla networks.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

MTP's not bad anymore. It works perfectly well in Windows Linux and Mac these days and is as fast as anything else.

[electric_nan@lemmy.ml]

Damn that sucks :(. Seems to me I have to disable my VPN in order to discover devices, but I can re-enable it afterwards. I use it mostly for clipboard sharing between devices.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

My home network is split between wired and wireless, they're on different IP ranges. I have every proper forwarding protocol and UDP sniffing everything set up so that devices can talk to each other across subnets.

It refuses.

So at home I can set it up on Linux to use a static IP to find my phone. And the phone kind of deals with it and works most of the time. But then I go to work and my IPs are the two devices change. Then I'm SOL.

Also if I'm home and I'm roaming onto one of my other networks to talk to security cameras or something it's incapable of talking to my PC.

Honestly it's discovery is just bad for me. I really wish that it's supported a list of IPs, or gave me some kind of client I could run in concert with tail scale or I could move s*** around it's just absolutely inflexible and for no good reason.

[facebutt9000@lemmy.world]

For single files, I use qrcp

[sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Seconding sending an email. SMB for big stuff.

[hawk@lemmynsfw.com]

Oh good to know.

It used to be awful but I'm glad to hear it's improving.

[coper@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I use ADBFileManager https://github.com/T0biasCZe/AdbFileManager/ which is much faster than MTP

In my testing, the program copies files at speed of approximately 41.6MiB/s (332Mib/s) over USB 2.0, compared to MTP that copies at around 10Mb/s

[kspvhmtolwvmd7y7e@lemmy.world]

I ll just hijack this thread : when plugging my android into laptop, the laptop doesn't recognise it as anything. And the phone doesn't give me the option to "share files" instead of just charge. Does anyone knows what's wrong?

[qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de]

Check if your cable has data lanes, some cables don't have them and can only be used for charging. Tap the charging notification and check if you can change it to file transfer.

[art@lemmy.world]

Open source file manager Material Files lets you set an SSH server as a bookmark and mount it instantly. Moving files around just like like it's native. Works seamlessly through Tailscale.

[uranibaba@lemmy.world]

Had the same issue before, cable was the cause.

[thatradomguy@lemmy.world]

https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator?tab=readme-ov-file#warpinator---send-and-receive-files-across-a-local-network

[one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world]

Do you have any hosting in your home lab? Preferably something for running a docker container, but a hypervisor could do the job too.

Nextcloud is an option if you do. Technically speaking you could properly protect it and make it public. You don't have to do that though. Any file you upload on your computer could be copied to your phone or vice versa. If it's public, then this could be done from anywhere.

[vext01@lemmy.sdf.org]

Yes, I have a Linux vm for docker. I've chucked up a pairdrop container. So easy.

[one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world]

Can't say I've used that... Yet. I like nextcloud because besides being compatible with Linux/Windows and having an Android app, it also has a simple web UI to access the files. It's probably closer to self hosted OneDrive than anything else I can think of.