Randall Munroe shows us how it's done:

Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.

Kde connect all day erry day

Syncthing is amazing though.

No shout out for my boi, LocalSend?

The amount of times sending myself an email is still the quickest thing is insane. Sure I could try to use notion or keep to send myself some random string of text but am I logged in on my desktop? Idk. Just use email.

Also there are so many things like air drop, nfc, etc, but so many of them are so specific to certain devices. Maybe one day we'll figure this out lol

Or just use a USB cable.

I use KDE Connect

Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer's file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer? It's this not a thing anymore?

Why the extra step of writing it to thumb drive?

IR data connection.

Print out on paper & scan it into the computer.

Copy the data into the computer in binary with an electron gun directly to SSD.

Recreate the data from scratch.

Install desktop os onto your phone & use it as your main rig to eliminate the need to transfer data in the first place.

Use an USB cable to connect the phone to a floppy drive & copy the data to floppy discs. And enjoy the asmr sounds as you do so.

Bluetooth if all else fails, but using a2dp dial-up frequencies.

Accept that there is no convenient way to transfer data & just live without it.

or just a normal ass USB a to c cord

https://github.com/localsend/localsend

I used localsend on desktop, laptop and my phones to sync stuffs between OSes and phones. What I likes is that it support multiplatform out of the box and works flawlessly between Windows, Android and Linux distros (tried both on Ubuntu, and LM without problem). It's just SHAREit without any stupid weird stuffs on it.

Syncthing ftw. As soon as I plug my phone into a charger, it starts syncing everything to my NAS. Even if it's not charging, I can override the rule and force it to sync.

Can't you just plug your phone straight in and transfer the file? I still prefer KDE connect though.

KDE Connect or Nextcloud. My phone has USB 2, but I can easily top 1 Gbit/s over wifi.

I don't even need a double-sided boi because my dumb ass got lucky enough to pick a cheapo laptop with a USB-C port. The little sandisk drive is probably one my best investments into the phone besides the case.

I usually just plug my phone directly into the pc and copy the file directly

One thing that really got me while working on computers and networking right as LAN networks became a thing in the late 90s and early 2K years was.... I'm connected to this switch, and so are they. Why do I need to burn a CD/use an external hard drive (later a flash drive), to move data?

Took me a while to figure out SMB/cifs, and when I did .... Game changer. Since then I've also learned all I can about storage, networking and file sharing. Most of my USB drives sit on my desk and don't get touched. I couldn't tell you what's on most of them. I've picked up a few thinking that I'll use it, but the most useful thing I've done with flash drives is to move data between computers when upgrading other people's computers. For me, I just make sure everything is backed up/synced to my local NAS, wipe the system and reinstall without a care in the world.

or just plug the phone into the computer?
and use either adb pull or mtp (adb is more reliable from my experience)

I use KDE connect...

But my grandfather does the ol reliable method for image upload, which is:

1. emails it to himself
2. prints the email off
3. scans the printout into his computer again
4. uploads image to faceboom Facebook

I typo'd Facebook originally but thay was too good to get rid of so I just strikethrough'd it

KDE Connect and Syncthing do the trick for most stuff. For all else, all hail the USB C M.2 NVME enclosure.

In Android just selectively enable wireless ADB debugging and then use ADB Explorer. Easier than plugging the phone in, wireless, and allows access to all folders on the device (including /Android/data/* which is blocked from being accessed using on-device file explorers). Turn it off when you're done. Boom, wireless data transfer to and from an Android device at way faster than cabled SMB speeds.

Kde Connect

Nintendo DS wireless file transfer lol

SMB has entered the chat

Wireless file transfers over the LAN. I ain’t got time to find my damn thumb drives.

Sharedrop

Open source. Works about as good as AirDrop when that isn't available.

Localsend ;)

Localsend!

I just email myself

LocalSend does it best

Mtp is so unstable in my experience that I try to use anything else available

From my experience, a USB cable is the easiest to find/use.

Send via Bluetooth...

Always have a tiny USB drive on my key chain. The digital space is so huge nowadays and they cost almost nothing.

rsync

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

www.snapdrop.net

Run it locally yourself to make it even easier.

I usually just use Bluetooth cuz I'm only transferring an image or two over. But if it's something big, I just use USB transfer because when the phone is plugged into the computer, it appears as an external drive.

Using this double sided boy seems like it would be putting a lot of weight on the USB port... 🤔

I've been using floppy disks. You mean there are other options now?

I use the Signal "Note to self" contact for smaller files, or SMB if i have to transfer large amounts - no usb-sticks needed.

for other people i normally upload either to https://send.vis.ee if it's a one time thing, to https://catbox.moe if i suspect that i have to share it more often over time or https://litterbox.catbox.moe/ for 3 day availability.

There is a little "most advanced transfer solutions" in your Spyware

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.

Termux, rsync and SSH.

Add a VPN and I can connect everywhere to my personal PC.

Attach it to a draft email. Log in on the other thing, go to drafts, download your file, delete draft.

Is FX bad now? Been using it for nearly a decade and it works great for me.

Local send.

You're welcome

iPhone and Mac be like:

Device one: copy

Device two: paste

My charger cable that's all I want.

Solid explorer FTP plugin has always worked fine for me.

ADB via USB for speed, rsync via WiFi for everything else

Localsend

SMB/NFS

I just put it on an SD card and pop it in my phone.

I use syncthing for regular syncing of files and warpinator for single files.

honestly though the cloud ones are so bad, their ui is so slow, bloated and clunky, and they take ages to transfer files with

Man wetransfer used to be dope before they enshittified it

Bluetooth file transfer my beloved

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.

QuickDAV

Super easy. Move entire folders. Free and open source.

Also, what’s a figther?

I use a private room in my Matrix instance

I used to go to a trade school where we were learning very basic app development

This was such a good tool to test it on my phone

Warpinator

Pairdrop, send over wifi

Seafile. It's already on my phone when I want it there.

never underestimate the data transfer speed of a truckload of hard drives

Syncthing if I have to sync regularly, KDE connect from phone to PC and magic-wormhole if I want to send something to a friend.

Run a ssh server on the phone and rsync stuff over.

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.

No one mentioned wormhole yet, so I'm gonna.

Nah. Selfhosted Nextcloud is far more convenient for me.

old iphone: hey guise

For Shure my 1pb school nextdrive...

you joke, but I've got my most recent salvo of audio books sitting in a double sided flash drive on my desk, right now

Back in the day I had to use CD-ROM to move files around

I used some app that was basically a gui for ssh/scp. Works wonders.

I got Plainapp From F-Droid and 100% of the time it works everytime https://github.com/ismartcoding/plain-app

Pairdrop/snapdrop is the answer, it's foss as well

Bluetooth

...rsync or scp, depending on mood. If there's a non-*nix host involved, maybe SMB or NFS but that's on the device owner.

I've never once in 10 years had any difficulty using one drive or drive.

I just access one of my many network shares with Root Explorer.

if it's an image or something small i just send it to myself on discord

Where SD card?

I don't like figters, they smell funny

Self-Hosted Pairdrop is perfection for me

pairdrop.net

If it isn't big I just message it to my partner, download it, the delete the message

Didn't want to install something to move stuff of my laptop yesterday. Took a USB which has both a boot partition and a data partition, which worked on my W10 computer and moved it to the W11 laptop and it wouldn't recognize it...

Long story short, I had to manual set the partition id for the data part using diskpart for the data partition to be recognized. But that was a lot more effort than expected to move a few files over.

warpinator cos it came preinstalled in my distro

Depends on your workflow. I'm usually in google drive anyways. And the file is usually there anyways. So it's just a few clicks away.

I use a USB cable with file transfer. I also do phone file management like this because it's easier

I made a dump folder on sync thing. When I want to share a file or 12, move it the dump folder and presto - the files are moved.

But yes, a USB drive is still very good for transfer, especially lots of files to other people.