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Sharing files from Android to any computer is a pain. If you ever need to transfer lots of files (for example while making backups), my recommendation is to us
by notRobot 4y ago
Sharing files from Android to any computer is a pain.
If you ever need to transfer lots of files (for example while making backups), my recommendation is to use an FTP server app on your phone and then download the files on your PC (explorer.exe has native FTP support but use can use Filezilla or a different FTP client too).
- goosedragons 4y agoI don't find using MTP on Windows or Linux that big a pain. It is a little more touchy than Mass Storage mode but compared to the dumpster fire of iOS and iTunes it may as well be perfection. Just plug in the cable and go pretty much. Of course Apple doesn't support it on Mac OS...
- dagw 4y agoSharing files from Android to any computer is a pain. How so? On Windows and Linux I just plug it in and it shows up in my file browser. Mac is the only one that is difficult. Sharing files from an iPhone to a computer on the other hand...
- feet 4y agoThis has also been my experience. I have literally never had problems moving files between my phone and computer with both Linux and windows. The only OS I don't use is MacOS/iOS
- fragmede 4y agoOn that hand, if the computer is running MacOS it's easy, just use Airdrop. Vendor lock-in has its upsides!
- cantSpellSober 4y agoThat's incredibly slow compared to usb
- fragmede 4y agofair point. what is your lifestyle like that you're regularly hitting that difference though? what phone data generator am I missing out on?
- brokenmachine 4y agoIt's called a camera. It takes 4k videos.
- thiht 4y agoAirdrop is great. But most of the times you don’t even need to transfer anything from iOS to Mac, the files are already there, thanks to iCloud. A few years ago I would have hated this because of vendor lock in. As a user, this is just sooo convenient and easy.
- hulitu 4y agoAnd when the internet connectivity is gone, your files are also gone.
- notRobot 4y agoThe MTP protocol is terrible for transferring a large number of big files (hangs and crashes a lot), and there's no way to reliably resume interrupted transfers.
- gorjusborg 4y ago> Sharing files frim Android to any computer is a pain I totally disagree, one of my biggest frustrations with iOS is how awful it is to share files between the it and desktop. Android phones are generally USB mass storage devices, I can just plug it in via USB and it becomes an attached storage drive on any OS. Apple made the decision that it wouldn't use a standard like that, so i need to install iTunes (wtf?!), and that only works on platforms that iTunes supports. I have no idea why you think FTP is faster than wired transfer. That sounds awful.
- fragmede 4y agoFTP is orthogonal to the issue of it being wired or unwired since you can connect the phone as an Ethernet device. Also popularly used for being a hotspot. FTPs pretty weird though. What is this, the 90's?
- rekabis 4y agoThe iCloud app - even for Windows - allows files to be shared surprisingly quick. Granted, it takes time to show up (just like many cloud file sharing systems), but if you have something in iCloud before you even get home, it’s usually accessible on the PC by the time you settle in.
- fragmede 4y agoA cloud service like Google drive/photos is another option. Not the most logically efficient, but it works. I think Dropbox has a feature to share the files locally instead of via the cloud.
- notRobot 4y agoDoesn't really work with several dozens of GBs of files.