Alternatively, is transferring files manually between a phone and a computer something we do?
For clarity I’m talking about manually moving files from your own phone to your own computer, not including any field that get synced automatically
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@danirabbit
I used to, but then I set up syncthing...
@danirabbit termux + scp
@danirabbit My personal requirements are completely satisfied by automatic cloud sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac). Airdrop for another Apple person. Carrier pidgeon for others.
@danirabbit nearly all of it is photos, since Apple sunsetted the service that moved photos from your phone to your computer automatically.
@danirabbit
I might be an outlier here, but for some reason my (Motorola from 2022) is a bit unreliable when tranferring over cable.
So my setup is total commander to local SMB server (or, on occasion, to SFTP server depending on where I'm doing it from)
And not to lose the opportunity for a bit of proselytizing: both servers are running Slackware :D
@danirabbit I often LocalSend for this https://localsend.org/, and sometimes I send files to myself via Signal
@danirabbit my iPhone doesn't have an SD card so I'm either bouncing things through iCloud or hooking my phone up via USB to my computer and accessing them that way.
@danirabbit
Android and iOS are not the only two phones.
Why do you want to know?
There are also MMC and SD cards.
Wirelessly can be BT, IR, and even SAMBA via Total Commander. All without Google.
iPhone used the ghastly without iTunes as it would ignore the transferred files.
Cable can be serial, Ethernet or USB.
USB can be Mass Storage, MTP (ghastly), ADB or TCP/IP.
App install, music/video/ebook install, notes/annotation/spreedsheets written on phone, photos/video/audio from phone.
@danirabbit
I find manually transferring files via usb helps me keep track of just what is going where, rather than automatically syncing stuff.
@danirabbit I regularly AirDrop from my iPhone to my Mac instead of waiting for iCloud to sync, I assume AirDrop counts as manually moving files
@danirabbit android, i use syncthing to automatically sync certain folders ideally over the local network. i also have a folder purely for one way transfers (copy/move to the folder from one device. move from the other)
@danirabbit I occasionally make manual backups of my files from my phone to my computer. I also sometimes need a document or photo I downloaded from an app onto my computer where I plug in my phone to my laptop and copy it over. Sometimes I use something like LocalSend to send that file wirelessly but I have had reliability issues with those methods in the past and it usually just ends up being faster to find a USB cable.
@danirabbit i'm not sure if that counts as manually but i usually send files from my linux desktop to android phone/tablet via localsend
@danirabbit i do both, also via web and lan, always dependents of the file. So yes i do!
@danirabbit not my phone, but I have a retro gaming handheld that runs android that I plug in to manage every so often so I can access the folders that Android blocks you from accessing on the device itself.
@danirabbit I'm a bit fuzzy on the "moving files" aspect; I move photos, music, and possibly some other ancillary document, but that does not map to "files" in the desktop sense, because I'm not seeing the file itself on the phone.
@danirabbit I usually just use KDE Connect and use its GVFS thingie to just open up my phone as a transparent folder lol.
Works with scripts etc
