[1B05H1N]

Do you guys actually share this much locally?

I have my local sync'd to my cloud storage and just pull it down if/when I need it. I'll just email/text people around me if they don't have airdrop compatibility.

[function_seven]

For videos, yeah. When I'm in a room with friends, and one of them is already connected to their TV, it's much quicker to airdrop a large video file (say, 500MB) than it is to send it up to the Internet and have them download it. Aside from the better bandwidth, it's also much faster from the time I tap "Share" to the time it's appearing on their device.

For gifs or a funny photo or whatever, yeah I'll just text it.

[linkdd]

Back when I was teaching, I was using sharedrop to share the project files, slides, exam solutions (after the exam of course), etc... to my students.

I used to set up a local http server with `python -m http.server` until one of my student told me about sharedrop.io

[firtoz]

I'm trying to learn how to use Tiktok (yes, I know, I'm sorry) and other social media and cross-posting isn't really great and some platforms pretty much force you to post from mobile devices or vice versa (Tiktok, Instagram for mobile, LinkedIn for desktop web), and I need to pass source videos from mobile to editors on PC and back and forth for posting on the different media.. It's a big of a mess, I'm kinda sure there are crossposting services out there already, but it works for me so /shrug!

[rainbowzootsuit]

Do consider Syncthing particularly if you are using Android. If using apple iOS you'd need the möbius sync client.

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.mobiussync.com/

One thing that it beats the cloud / centralized sync on is because the connection is direct between devices when the initial transfer is completed the file is completely there on the other device. With a cloud type of sync you do the transfer twice. I've seen stack up on large media or with the structure of cloud services pricing making it expensive depending on how your workflow is setup with inside and outside parties. For example, Dropbox deduction from all parties' storage limits not just the sharer.

You can also point Syncthing at a local sync of Dropbox or Google drive and then forward the files to other recipients from that for some purposes.

[firtoz]

Looks quite powerful, will give this a try!

[firtoz]

Update: I love it, so good!

[dewey]

Sounds much more painful than dropping them in iCloud / Google Drive / Dropbox, as you have to send, accept, save, switch to app, upload instead of just going to the app, select file from cloud storage, upload.

Especially when you might want to upload from multiple devices.

[firtoz]

I haven't figured out the full workflow yet so will consider your way too, thanks for mentioning it!

[windowsrookie]

Yes I do. I'm often moving files between two Macs and sometimes my iPhone. I have a few important documents and maybe 100 photos backed up in my free google drive storage, everything else is stored locally.

Email/Text has very small files size limits so that's not an option for me.

[andreicap]

Yes. I send pictures and videos (with original metadata/quality) to my friends and family, thus avoiding clutter in messaging apps.