On 01/05/2018 01:28 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
On 05/01/18 20:19, John Andersen wrote:
Did your daughter use to own an iPhone? I ask, because cabling your android to any computer is virtually unheard of, but its an old Apple requirement. Even if you do cable it, it often ends up being an MTP connection only.
Why then have I always used a cable? And my attempts to use anything else have always been a bit of a disaster ...
Any of a half dozen file managers (most free from the app store) can allow this access via wifi, using ssh, sftp, samba, as well as Google drive, dropbox one drive Yandex, owncloud etc. Enough to access just about any computer local or remote.
Cloud storage :-( NO THANKS! I was shocked (and upset) to discover that Google had uploaded (and deleted from local storage!!!) all the photos on my phone! Oh - and it's pretty clear that when I downloaded them back from Google Photos, they had been modified!!! One thing I do NOT do with my photos is modify the originals!!!
Nobody said you HAD to use cloud storage. Or were you just looking for a reason to rant? And to blame that on your failure to read the directions is a bit over the top don't you think?
Solid Explorer sounded great ... until I took a look :-( What I want is easy file transfer - and having to do it all on a small touchscreen sounds like a nightmare. I like my connections to be bi-directional, and when downloading from my phone I always work with a big screen and a keyboard and mouse.
First of all, this was addressed to Koenraad, and what YOU wanted was the farthest thing from my mind. Most people want to do this from the phone, because that is what they have in their hand most of the time when they want to move pictures or music. They don't want to get up, go to the computer, find their charge cord and cable in. Solid Explorer and ES Explorer (and others) offers FTP/sftp server for the phone side as well. I can't even -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org