Quickly transferring files between PC and phone

[vividspecter@lemm.ee]

I'll add in Bitwarden Send (including self-hosted vaultwarden), although probably doesn't make sense if you're not already using it for password management.

[toribor@corndog.social]

I use a Gnome implementation of this and it works great too.

[terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I mean, the fastest method is likely to just plug the phone into PC and pretend it's a flash drive?

[chapulincolorado@lemmy.world]

I don’t know if it is always the fastest. I know they said android, but for example on not too old Apple phones (pre-usb c), I had the impression you could get better throughout on wifi compared to a cable connection. Maybe that’s just apple trying to squeeze money on proprietary connectors, but other manufacturers seem to copy their worst takes sometimes though.

[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.