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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tutorial: How to copy a photo from Window to iOS without Apple restrictions
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 21:53:21 -0000 (UTC)
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Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 18:41:05 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :
> 
> 
>>> "Microsoft Phone Link
>>> ...
>>> Step 5: Now you can view the notifications and also transfer files
>>> from 	 your PC to your iPhone."
>> 
>> So I gave this a try by setting up the app on my phone and connecting
>> it by Bluetooth to the laptop.  I've got all the permissions set up but
>> it's not working for me.  It also has a convoluted way of working
>> through the actions to share the files.
>> 
>> In this case I must agree with Jolly Roger, Tyrone and whoever else
>> advocates that the Files app works better.  All I had to do was enter
>> the IP address for the laptop in the server section, use my Microsoft
>> account to login from the iPhone to the laptop, and Share a folder on
>> my laptop.  I can easily move files between both devices.
>> 
>> Considering the iOS method works and it's native to the phone, I will
>> stick with that.
> 
> We're all working together (except for the Apple trolls) for the benefit of
> all of us, as it behooves us to be able to seamlessly transfer files
> between all the platforms (where Eli the Bearded had an interesting
> LocalSend use model between Androids, without the PC being involved).
> 
> In that purposefully-helpful light, I know badgolferman to be a normal
> helpful person, well educated, sensible and rational (unlike the Apple
> trolls), so what badgolferman says he did between his iPhone and his PC, I
> believe it happened as he said it did. Files "can" send files to the PC.
> 
> However, I need to make the extremely crucial point that you can jump off
> of a moving horse relatively easily but it's much harder to get back on.
> 
> Sure, you can jump back on (and just as surely, people do it), but you have
> to have everything aligned to jump back onto that moving horse, right?
> 
> The point being the problem was never how to get files from the iOS device
> to the PC, but to push the files from the PC onto the iOS device.
> 
> In the case of Paul's excellent suggestion of LocalSend, the push and pull
> work seamlessly together, such that the flow is bidirectionally easy.
> 
> A push is no different than a pull with LocalSend; but with the Files
> command, a push and a pull are completely different tasks.
> 
> Let's take the push, since we're trying to push an iOS file to the Windows
> PC using the iOS Files program using smb://<Computer Name>/<Share Name>
> 
> The problem badgolferman is likely unaware of when he claims "it works for
> me", is that he very likely has a password on his user account on the PC.
> 
> I do not. Hence, SMB doesn't work. 
> 
> That is, to use "smb://192.168.1.100/SharedDocs", SMB requires you to
> create an account on the PC which has a username & a password.
> 
> The difference with LocalSend is that it does NOT need that username &
> password, which, I think, may be what wasbit might have been alluding to.
> 

It is true that I have a Microsoft account on my PC and indeed had to enter
that during setup of the handshaking process. I can also push/pull in
either direction. Other than you though, I do not know anyone else who
doesn’t have a Microsoft account so the Files method should work for them.
At least now we have several methods of accomplishing the same task and
people have a choice.