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by wwarek 1678 days ago
Alternatively, using the same technology: https://www.sharedrop.io/ and actually multiple others. Quite convincing to transfer files between devices in LAN, instead of looking for USB cable to connect the phone or trying to establish (never working and much slower) Bluetooth connection.
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There are indeed a lot of similar options. Personally I'm partial to https://file.pizza/ because I find the toppings based URL scheme clever and fairly easy to communicate.
I like sharedrop and was using it for quite some time; but as of late it has become unreliable, either not allowing clicking on other machines, or reporting the transfer as successful when the destination has received nothing at all.

I suspect this is primarily a UI issue, but the whole product is just a UI wrapper on a WWW protocol, so a mere UI glitch is quite devastating.

You find it easier than just using your phone's file manager to access shared drives?
Shared drives ?
Yeah, network drives. Like this: https://i.imgur.com/aRS0EdO.png
* convenient
Of course, thanks