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

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In rec.photo.digital, Graham J  <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
> Why not attach the file to an email and send it to the iOS device?

I use Localsend between two Android devices somewhat often. The
scenario:

Device One has a good camera, but no sim card.
Device Two has a terrible camera, but more storage, a sim card, and
physical keyboard.
Both have wifi.

Daily, I only use device Two and suffer the lower quality photos if I
take pictures. On vacation, I bring both devices and use device One for
photos, then at end of day transfer all photos and videos for the day
to device Two. 

On my more recent vacation that was about a gigabyte of files per day.
About five to ten minutes selecting what to copy and another ten minutes
copying. Then on device Two, I would properly tag the photos, because
doing that with a keyboard is much nicer than with a touch screen.


At the end of the trip, after backing up device Two, I delete the
pictures from device One (where storage is tight).

Most people don't realy tag their photos and at most let the OS guess
some tags, but I hold much higher metadata standards than I expect any
AI provided by the OS will achieve. (A lake is different than an ocean
is different than a river is different than a canal and a picture of
water will get tagged "water" and the type of water, and sometimes the
name of the water.)

Issues:

Picking the files to send is a weak point in Localsend.

Plugging in a device to charge *during* transfer also was breaking
LocalSend. Plug in before starting the transfer is not an issue. It
seems to be related to start / stop charging only.

Some wifi routers block Localsend. Devices can't see each other and
manually specifying the IP address (which is a pain in the ass in
Localsend) didn't help. This is an issue when relying on hotel or
whatever wifi instead of something you control yourself. It seems
to be a firewall between devices on the network. You should be able to
get around this with an ad hoc network, but I haven't tried.

Elijah
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device One has 64 gigs, device Two has well over a terabyte

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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 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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