For Shure my 1pb school nextdrive…
No one mentioned wormhole yet, so I’m gonna.
Seafile. It’s already on my phone when I want it there.
I feel a bit like a bit of a fossil here, but why not drop the file into a network file share and grab it from there on your phone? No physical item required
Cx Expolorer on Android can access network shares and Samba shares like a desktop OS. It really isn’t a particularly outdated option, it’s so much less fiddly than direct drive access from a PC and it effectively works just like a USB stick, interface-wise, without having to do the whole “where did I put my thumbdrive” dance each time.
I pick one device-to-device option and it won’t load.
I pick another and it transfers at the speed of EDGE.
I end up just emailing the file to myself because my email is synced across all devices and it takes two minutes.
honestly though the cloud ones are so bad, their ui is so slow, bloated and clunky, and they take ages to transfer files with
Mtp is so unstable in my experience that I try to use anything else available
I’ve never once in 10 years had any difficulty using one drive or drive.
Congrats!
I use syncthing for regular syncing of files and warpinator for single files.
FX File Explorer + local servers = check and mate. If I need access to it immediately from a machine, put it on my /home/drive/desktop folder and it will sync to my computers in a few seconds, via synology drive. This also works over the internet, so I can move the files at home, leave, and power up my laptop to see them available, seamlessly.
I have a second server running Debian that does the first half, but not the syncing part. It’s more for docker stuff, not personal files.
I’m disabled too, so the less I have to physically move around, the better. Having a server to just dump stuff on and access from anywhere is amazing.
Ha, Debian? More like Plebian /j
Google Drive might be the single worst website I have ever used. Idk why, but Everytime I have to use it it takes forever to load, even though I almost exclusively have text documents saved, and the goddamn download button doesn’t even work half the time.
I just email myself
Yeah I email myself for work stuff since we aren’t supposed to plug in our phones to our work computers.
Is there a file size limit?
I usually just plug my phone directly into the pc and copy the file directly
The USB Type-C is useful for sharing files offline between smartphones while the USB Type-A is useful when you want to backup files to a PC at some point.
me too. the double sided thing looks awkward.
there’s also localsend if you prefer over wifi for any reason
Someone pointed out it’s actually a usb stick with two different ends, which sounds pretty neat. I also thought it was like a cable without the actual cable part so your phone would just be dangling there awkwardly
oh that makes more sense, yeah it looks like an adapter which feels terrible to use. but also if you need a quick transfer, doing it over a cable or wifi is still better since you only copy once that way.
Termux, rsync and SSH.
Add a VPN and I can connect everywhere to my personal PC.
Termux, rsync and SSH.
Worked okay until I got overzealous and killed my battery from leaving Termux on for convenience.
