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--- file_transfer [2024/06/03 00:05] – [Computer to Computer] add 1-to-many and many-to-many notes qlyoung
+++ file_transfer [2025/10/06 03:36] (current) – dropbox honorable mention qlyoung
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+===== file transfer =====
 File transfer sure is hard. Why is it so hard?
 ==== Computer to computer ====
-By far my preferred system for 1-1 file transfer is the [[https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html|magic wormhole]] protocol with the [[https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport|rymdport]] cross-platform GUI frontend.
+  * My favorite for 1-1 file transfer is [[https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html|magic wormhole]] protocol via [[https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport|rymdport]], although it has significant [[https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport/issues/165|bugs]]
+  * There is also [[https://github.com/schollz/croc|croc]] although it needs a comprehensive security review (along with magic wormhole)
+  * For 1-to-many transfer, I usually prefer Bittorrent
+  * For many-to-many, I like SFTP. Yep, good old SFTP. My preferred server is [[https://sftpgo.com/|SFTPGo]]. It supports S3-compatible cloud storage as a storage backend and allows you to mount as many of those as you want in a virtual filesystem scoped to specific users. Very good. I host it at https://files.qlyoung.net.
+  * Honestly, I hate saying it, but dropbox works fine too
-For 1-to-many transfer, I usually prefer Bittorrent.
-For many-to-many, unfortunately cloud storage a la Google Drive / Dropbox etc appears to be the only real player in town.
 ==== Phone to phone ====
-If it's iOS to iOS, Airdrop works well.
+If it's iOS to iOS and just 1-to-1 or 1-to-many, Airdrop works well. Many-to-many quickly becomes unmanageable.
 For cross-platform iOS <-> Android transfers, I usually reach for [[https://snapdrop.net/|snapdrop]]. However, for transfers of more than 1gb or so, it starts to get sketchy with phone lock timeouts and background task kills frequently resulting in failed transfers.
 I'm not aware of any reliable and broadly available tool that exists in this space. A magic wormhole client for mobile would be amazing. Do you know of one?
+==== Lol ===
+I made this page with its name before seeing this appropriate XKCD: https://xkcd.com/949/
+At least I'm not alone.
+{{tag>technology}}

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