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  • LocalSend tutorial for bidirectional file transfer between Android & ev

    From Marion@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 7 10:00:00 2025
    If you need to transfer files bidirectionally over your Wi-Fi LAN between Android and any other common consumer OS, including iOS, try this.

    *Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend*
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=86116&group=alt.comp.os.windows-10#86116>

    That tutorial was specifically written to overcome the arbitrary
    file-transfer restrictions of the brain-dead toy iOS dumb-terminal
    operating system; but it turns out that the method works for everything.

    With this method, you can transfer files to/from Android & every other
    common consumer operating system as long as they're on the same network.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Marion on Tue Apr 8 07:50:30 2025
    Marion wrote:

    transfer files to/from Android & every other
    common consumer operating system as long as they're on the same network.

    I'll add it to the list of things I'll probably never have time to look
    at ...

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  • From Marion@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Tue Apr 8 07:28:19 2025
    On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 07:50:30 +0100, Andy Burns wrote :


    transfer files to/from Android & every other
    common consumer operating system as long as they're on the same network.

    I'll add it to the list of things I'll probably never have time to look
    at ...

    The good news is LocalSend works out of the box. No setup thinking needed.

    However, I agree most of the time we don't need it for Android since we're mostly transferring files to and from a PC which is trivial with Android.

    *The problem that needed it was to go from my Android to my iPad.*
    Try that trick sometime. It's not fun. Nothing with iOS is fun.

    However, "Eli the Bearded" gave an Android-to-Android use model for
    LocalSend which was rather neat given the problem he was solving.
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=86135&group=alt.comp.os.windows-10#86135>

    When he travels, Elijah has two Android devices, one which has a great
    camera, the other a large amount of storage. So he takes pictures all day
    with one Android and then transfers the DCIM folder en masse to the other.

    The only requirement is they need to run LocalSend on the same network.

    Since Android-to/from-PC is so trivial, I think that device-to-device use
    model is the only one that might be practical for Android to/from anything.

    For example, I might want to transfer a folder from my Android to my iPad.

    Anyway, since every post I write should benefit people forever, if anyone
    needs the APK, here are some links you can download now to get LocalSend.
    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.localsend.localsend_app>
    <https://github.com/localsend/localsend/releases/download/v1.17.0/LocalSend-1.17.0-android-arm64v8.apk>
    <https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.localsend.localsend_app/>
    <https://localsend.org/download?os=android>
    <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW6MP732>

    And for all the common consumer platforms:
    <https://localsend.org/download>

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to marion@facts.com on Wed Apr 9 23:28:36 2025
    In comp.mobile.android, Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:
    However, "Eli the Bearded" gave an Android-to-Android use model for
    LocalSend which was rather neat given the problem he was solving.
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=86135&group=alt.comp.os.windows-10#86135>

    When he travels, Elijah has two Android devices, one which has a great camera, the other a large amount of storage. So he takes pictures all day with one Android and then transfers the DCIM folder en masse to the other.

    You can find the post on your local news server, no need to go to the
    web. I was replying in rec.photo.digital, but it was crossposted.

    Subject: Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend
    Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,rec.photo.digital,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Message-ID: <eli$2504071618@qaz.wtf>

    Elijah
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    not sure why this group was not part of the crosspost

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