Apps: File Transfer to other OSs

[Pete G.]

As the Gemini's strength is its text editing, one of the things I expected to do a lot would be to either grab text from another machine and edit it, or just create the text on the Gemini and send it somewhere else.  But I've completely failed to find any decent file-transfer app for Android!  I thought at least there'd be ftp.  I found one "Send to FTP", but its UI is terrible, so I dumped it again.  NitroShare also looked good, but when I installed it on the Gemini and my laptop (Mint), the two completely fail to communicate.  (I've added an issue on its Github page, so maybe it could be solved.)

Of course I have termux, which has FTP, but the command-line is not the most convenient interface here!

Does anyone know of something more useful?

[RickDeckard]

As the Gemini's strength is its text editing, one of the things I expected to do a lot would be to either grab text from another machine and edit it, or just create the text on the Gemini and send it somewhere else.  But I've completely failed to find any decent file-transfer app for Android!  I thought at least there'd be ftp.  I found one "Send to FTP", but its UI is terrible, so I dumped it again.  NitroShare also looked good, but when I installed it on the Gemini and my laptop (Mint), the two completely fail to communicate.  (I've added an issue on its Github page, so maybe it could be solved.)

Of course I have termux, which has FTP, but the command-line is not the most convenient interface here!

Does anyone know of something more useful?

ES File explorer

[Pete G.]

As the Gemini's strength is its text editing, one of the things I expected to do a lot would be to either grab text from another machine and edit it, or just create the text on the Gemini and send it somewhere else.  But I've completely failed to find any decent file-transfer app for Android!
Does anyone know of something more useful?

ES File explorer

Urghh... Yalp says that both has ads, and requires GSF.  I'd rather do without both!

I've been working up some shell scripts and things to make termux FTP a little less cumbersome, but a GUI would be nice

[vader]

For a quick transfer from Gemini to PC (doesn't matter the OS), run a web server on the Gemini. The simplest is actually under termux (yes I know, command line). You can set it to run at boot, or create a script and make it an icon on you desktop. From the command line in termux, just do:

make sure you have first installed python:
pkg add python

To create a web server:

cd /your/folder/that/contains/the/docs
python -m http.server

On your PC, go to:

http://gemini_ip_address:8000/   <= obviously put your gemini ip in here

Voila!

Personally, I use scp, but on some antiquated (read windows) systems that don't natively support ssh/scp, I use the web server approach.

[Pete G.]

For a quick transfer from Gemini to PC (doesn't matter the OS), run a web server on the Gemini.

Heh -- that's an interesting idea!  I don't think it quite suits me, though.  I want to go both ways for a start, and I might not have GUI access to the machine I'm transferring to anyway.  My rPi is a good common access point, and, though I can turn on K/B and screen, I usually just connect via a remote Terminal on another machine.  And the shell account on my website ISP is always command-line of course.

I think shell scripts to ease the FTP connections to each machine will do me reasonably well for now.

[RickDeckard]

As the Gemini's strength is its text editing, one of the things I expected to do a lot would be to either grab text from another machine and edit it, or just create the text on the Gemini and send it somewhere else.  But I've completely failed to find any decent file-transfer app for Android!
Does anyone know of something more useful?

ES File explorer

Urghh... Yalp says that both has ads, and requires GSF.  I'd rather do without both!

I've been working up some shell scripts and things to make termux FTP a little less cumbersome, but a GUI would be nice

Buy the Pro version or remove the ads with lucky patcher. Pretty simple.

[petefoth]

On my main Android phone I use a server app on the phone called SSHelper and an app called CyberDuck on the Mac. Not got round to trying it on the Gemini yet, but it should work

Pete

[tuk0z]

Syncthing does the job. It's gui or webUI, cross-OS, and fully opensource.
I use it to sync whatever I need between my newly received Gemini, my Desktop, laptop and a NAS,

[rubus-3.142]

Solid Explorer - allows you to have SFTP, SMP accounts  
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?....solidexplorer2

Folder Sync - syncs with just about anything - i use it at home with my NAS using SMB and over SFTP with my web server
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...foldersync.full

Install termux and use rsync like a Linux pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux

For most decent apps removing adds / enabling the the full functionality means spending cost less than a coffee on the high street and you support the developer!  

IMHO using things like "lucky patcher" is no different to shoplifting - and the downloads you get from various dubious websites are probably full of malware anyway.

No credit card or paypal - buy a playstore gift token with cash and apply to your own account - in the UK available form Tesco, WHSmith and many more places

[SimonTelescopium]

For files I want to share I use Microsoft Onedrive, or BT Cloud then the files are available everywhere.