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Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend

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On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:43:56 +0100, wasbit wrote :


> Does Localsend bypass the need to have to sign in to an MS account?

Hi wasbit,
You've helped me a lot over the years, so I'd love to be able to help you.
I'm not sure why you asked that, so there must be something I'm missing. 

Paul turned me on to LocalSend earlier today, so there could be stuff I
don't know about it but as far as I'm aware, it's open source software.

AFAIK, no account anywhere is needed to install & run & use LocalSend on
Windows and on Linux but you do need an account to install it on iOS.

Even on Android, you do not need to have a Google Account to install the
LocalSend APK since you can download APKs directly from the link provided.

The only platform that requires that mothership account is Apple's iOS.

Once you have the zip file unpacked on Windows, there are no limitations
that I am aware of (e.g., file type, count, size, platform or direction).

In the words of the child-like Apple trolls, it's just one step: :)
 1. Run LocalSend

Obviously it's more steps than that, but essentially what I did was
download the zip file, and then I unzipped it directly to my app folder:
 C:\apps\servers\localsend\localsend.exe
Then, on Windows, I added a link to my taskbar menu in the same location:
 C:\menus\servers\localsend.lnk

Note: I never use plurals; but I added plurals there for readability.

The interesting thing is that this LocalSend program allows you to send
bi-directionally files & folders (and even text messages) between
platforms, so, for example, you can text your wife's iPad from your PC.

Note that you don't really need this LocalSend tool for bidirectional file
transfer between the normal operating systems, since that already works.

You need this tool for bidirectional file/folder transfer when Apple's
operating systems (particularly the brain dead iOS OS) are involved.

Apple designed iOS to be a dumb terminal in that iOS doesn't do anything
without going through Apple's Cupertino maxtrix servers most of the time.

So, while Windows doesn't need a login account on the mothership servers,
iOS does need you to have an Apple App Store account on Apple's servers in
order to install the LocalSend IPA.

Worse, Apple is the only operating system vendor who inserts a unique
tracking ID which is unique to you & to you alone, into that IPA installer.

That way Apple can track everything you do with that LocalSend application.
Back to your question, AFAIK, a M$ account is never needed for LocalSend.
-- 
The best way to visualize Apple's ecosystem is to think of it as a 
subterranean cavern with passageways to itself but none to the real world.

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Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 09:19 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-04-07 10:43 +0100
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 10:29 +0000
      Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 11:20 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-04-07 13:29 +0100
          Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 12:57 +0000
            Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-07 14:49 -0400
              Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 21:25 +0000
          Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Kash Patel <kash.patel@fbi.gov> - 2025-04-07 13:30 +0000
          Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-04-07 20:18 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-04-08 16:46 +0100
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-08 21:24 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-13 05:24 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-12 23:15 -0700
      Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend david <this@is.invalid> - 2025-04-13 01:00 -0600
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-04-13 07:19 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-13 00:43 -0700
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-14 19:10 +0000
      Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-15 17:21 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-15 10:34 -0700
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-17 16:11 -0700

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