Used to use syncthing for files, now I just mount smb shares since I finally found how to do it on Android. Also kdeconnect is indispensable tool for me.
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Mostly Nextcloud, for my Keepass databases that doesn't work though. Because the android client handles files completely different than the desktop versions.
So for that I use syncthing with my home server being a hub, that everything syncs to locally, if I need updates to propagate while I'm not home I VPN in. However I rarely need to do that.
It works for me just fine with KeePass2Android, what exactly is your problem?
Idk rember exactly, on desktop Nextcloud adds a folder structure to the OSs filesystem.
On android it doesn't do that, instead you either open a file from within Nextcloud, which confuses Keepass, and Nextcloud if you change anything. Or at least the sync database feature doesn't work, or smth like that.
If I wasn't careful with adding new entries I'd get a lot of conflicts that weren't a single click to resolve.
Syncthing on Android does exactly what the nextcloud- client does on desktop. So the file is just sitting in a folder, and any changes can be ingested into wherever I have and old version of a database open, by using the synchronize with file option.
I think the problem is that Android doesn't immediately upload the changes since Keepass (which one are you using?) doesn't poll all the time - assuming you opened your .kdbx through "Nextcloud" option. You can always use "Synchronize database..." option of Keepass2Android that will upload or download everything. And even if you have conflicts, they are usually easily solved by merging changes. At least that's my experience.
Maybe its because I use the variant (of Keepass2Android) with "offline" tacked onto the end?
I don't exactly remember why I chose that one though...
Its a running system now, all the syncthing stuff isn't exposed to the internet, so I don't really mind the stuff going on with syncthing-fork atm...
edit: Its a running system, I won't touch it unless I need to...
USB Stick and USB wire?
no need to fiddle with an app, nothing to configure, no updates, works even with relatively big file sizes, surprisingly fast?
SSH or a USB stick that has USB 3 on one end and USB C on the other
I use KDE Connect. Works well with Tailscale when I'm outside my home network.
Samba.
Or one time I made my own simple file sharing website
I know it's not a dedicated (or that good of a) solution but I just upload stuff to a private room on my Matrix server.
SMB share ( Android <-> Windows/Steam Machine
Samba drive + vpn tunnel. If I'm working on my PC and want to do something with my phone: plainapp
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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xmpp and syncthing
Thumb drive.
Mostly nextcloud if it's between my own devices.
For getting a file to someone else I had good luck with sharry. https://github.com/eikek/sharry
I use bitwarden send, all my devices already have access to my password database and i can save and download files or text though it. You can also use the URL to let other devices access it if you want.
SFTP, Caddy WebDAV
I just use SSH+Rsync for everything. I traded two-way sync for minimalism and reliability. I've had nothing but headaches with anything else, especially Syncthing.
My Computer and both Raspberry Pi servers both run Linux and I have Termux installed on my Android phone so OpenSSL and Rsync are easily available.
I made a script that runs Rsync commands from files containing all the information which easily swaps source/target files so I can easily transfer in both directions with a simple command line option. It's reliable and simple and I've had a lot less headaches troubleshooting the rarely occurring issues.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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All my devices are on the same wirguard network. It allows me to use SFTP to mount the fileservers of the others very easily. Then copying files is as simple as copying from one folder to another.