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It's all automated so you don't have to think about how it works.
ADB is such a crummy experience for file transfers, and Android File Transfer is somehow even worse. This sounds great!
Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN. Unfortunately it hasn't received the appropriate attention from me lately, mainly because of the difficulties of running tests (and the android emulator) on GH action runners. Attempt to add some basic tests can be found here https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless/pull/62 This submission motivated me to check out the latest state of vi…
Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.
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Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.
Am I missing something? Your phone isn’t using encrypted storage?
If you use KDE Connect, which is cross-platform and not just for KDE, you can mount your phone's storage remotely without touching adb. I believe it uses sshfs in the background. It's all automated so you don't have to think about how it works.
I use it every day to interact between my phones and computers (browse files across devices, transfer them, use the phone screen as computer trackpad, control media playing on another device, run remote commands safely... and I know I'm not using even half of the features).
Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN. Unfortunately it hasn't received the appropriate attention from me lately, mainly because of the difficulties of running tests (and the android emulator) on GH action runners. Attempt to add some basic tests can be found here https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless/pull/62 This submission motivated me to check out the latest state of vi…