-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2018-01-05 at 21:28 -0000, Wol's lists wrote:
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!!!
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.
I use "ES File Explorer" (which I dislike since it changed hands and now has very intrusive ads; however, it works). Swipe left edge to center. Network, Remote. This will set up an FTP server at your phone, to which you can connect from your LAN. It is very good. You simply connect to it from any local computer with any operating system (for example, 'mc' in Linux). By default there is no password, but you can create one. It is for LAN use, so it is safe as long as you know who is on your LAN. Traffic is not encrypted AFAIK (but WiFi is). I'm certain there are others apps that do this. I can do ssh transfer (initiated from the phone) with another tool, but I found it to be terribly slow (I do not know why). Not for big files. I prefer the cable anytime I can. However, I found that via FTP I can access some files that on the cable get denied permissions. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpP/OQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Wu9ACcD3spydTK3c/jW1Zf6BrNVH71 MpcAn3BuqhO+4WgcQOSjI/Mcoj4/SIUR =MELR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org