How to copy a file between devices? (2022) • Hacker News Board

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by hateful » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

JeremyNT wrote: post #248

greatgib wrote: post #81

The best solution I have found to easily exchange files between devices so far is to use Telegram. It works perfectly for your own devices. You can have it on multiple devices at the same time (computers, phones,...), there is a special "saved messages" channel for files, it can easily accommodate small to reasonably big files (like GB files), and there is also a webclient that you can use in a few seconds if you are…

OP would rule this out because of the third party cloud service thing, but I use signal in the same way. It feels quite ridiculous but it works. The best option I can think of is syncthing, but the ux for non technical users isn't great.

This is what I do now. I have a group chat with just me in it.

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by pxeger1 » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 2:44 PM UTC

midasuni wrote: post #185

bestham wrote: post #91

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With the aforementioned Taildrop you do not have to trust Tailscale with your data.

Don’t you need to have tailscale on the machine (and thus give full access to all your machines to the company) for taildrop to work?

The Tailscale client is open source, FWIW

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by prakis » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 2:45 PM UTC

We built simple tool for devs https://HelloEle.com, you can use it along with S3 or BackBlaze.

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by easygenes » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

I am surprised to not see Jami ( http://jami.net ) mentioned here yet. It is a GNU project and is fully cross platform. I use it to send files and messages between my devices, as easy as Telegram or Whatsapp.

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by baxtr » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 2:56 PM UTC

aspyct wrote: post #211

baxtr wrote: post #207

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Have you tried Dropbox links? The best solution I have found. But I agree it’s a mess.

Yes, but then you have to send the link, and it's also a huge mess.

What’s the reason sending a link is a mess for you?

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by psanford » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 3:03 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #223

rkangel wrote: post #219

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I don't have a good asynchronous solution, but if you can do it while on the phone/Teams with them, then Web Wormhole ( https://webwormhole.io/ ) is absolutely fantastic. You both open a web page, you drag a file onto yours and it starts appearing in their download folder. It's WebRTC based so peer-to-peer, E2E encrypted, with servers only used for serving the client, and for NAT punching.

What you really want is the native iOS or Android version of this (or of any Magic Wormhole derivative), which the wormhole-william people are working on (I think the Android version already works).

Yeah the Android version has been out for a few years[1][2]. There's an iOS target that works as well, I've just never published it to the app store. Every time I start that process I get annoyed at how hostile Apple is to open source developers and give up. Hopefully I can at least distribute a side loadable binary when that becomes a thing for EU users.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

[2]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by ChoGGi » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 3:03 PM UTC

aspyct wrote: post #136

I regularly have to send files to customers, from a few megabytes to a few gigs. It's incredibly hard. Mail? Goes to spam. WeTransfer? Mail clients break URL. Download from my website? Some stupid browser will display the zip data onscreen. Send the link through messenger? Messenger breaks the link. SaaS gallery? Some file managers can't open the zip file. I've been doing that for two years now. Still don't have a 10…

I do the directory listing file(s) with a header telling them to right click and download.

It usually works...

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by dmd » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 3:04 PM UTC

easygenes wrote: post #274

I am surprised to not see Jami ( http://jami.net ) mentioned here yet. It is a GNU project and is fully cross platform. I use it to send files and messages between my devices, as easy as Telegram or Whatsapp.

Love how that site asks me for money before I even have a chance to see what it is.

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by czard » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 3:08 PM UTC

XMPP is great for that, since I adopted it a while back, it's just been a breeze to send files around. With a usual setup and Gajim or Conversations for instance you can decide if you're sending that one file to all or a specific device(s) (i.e. resource), it's really neat. Hosting my own ejabberd server was also the easiest setup experience of my self-hosting life, can't recommend it enough.

Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

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Post by renonce » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 3:10 PM UTC

easygenes wrote: post #274

I am surprised to not see Jami ( http://jami.net ) mentioned here yet. It is a GNU project and is fully cross platform. I use it to send files and messages between my devices, as easy as Telegram or Whatsapp.

I just installed it on Windows and then downloaded it on my iPhone. Can't even link my iPhone to my Jami account created on Windows. iOS side doesn't ask me to scan QR code and when I enter my pin and password it just says my account was not found.

EDIT: I removed my password and instead of relying on the app for scanning the pin, I used the iOS built-in camera app to scan the pin and copied it to the app. Now it works. But that was poor experience nevertheless and I wish it was better designed.