I used to use drop box or just email a link, now I use one drive and notes.
I don’t know if this is old school tech, but I attach it to an email and send it to myself.
I use WeChat’s file transfer utility.
Farcebook messenger for links. Google drive for photos and other files.
Some of these methods seem (to me, anyway) unnecessarily convoluted. I transfer files between the PC and my Android devices (tablet or phone) over USB cable using Windows’ built-in MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) which pops up automatically and makes the device look (more or less) like an external drive.
The difference is that MTP is a type of file service, not a disk service; you can’t format anything* or directly play or execute a file over MTP, but you can copy bidirectionally or delete. Another difference is that MTP devices are not mounted and dismounted; file transfer works on a commit/rollback basis. That is, a file is either completely transferred, or else if interrupted is deleted by the receiving device. But to the user this is all just technical minutiae; in practical terms, just plug and go.
* - For instance, when I installed a microSD card in my tablet, it turned out to be formatted in FAT32, and so could not hold any file larger than 4 GB. I couldn’t reformat to exFAT over MTP. I had to remove the card and install it directly into a laptop that happened to have SD card slots in order to reformat it.
I only ever need to get pics from my phone to my desktop. I log in to iCloud on my Windows desktop and there they are.
You know, that’s a great point. The only thing I need to move from my phone to my desktop are photos. Using Google photos, it’s virtually automatic. And the only thing I need to move from my desktop to my phone are my music files. I do that via USB cable.
I have Apple stuff, including an iPhone, an iMac, and iCloud service. Anything that appears on any of these automatically syncs to all the others, or looks like it did and syncs when I try to open it. When I’m using another computer that I don’t own, I can go to the iCloud web site and download or access any of it from there.
Open an FTP server on the phone, then use FileZilla.
Don Cheadle did it in the movie Traitor (2008).
That doesn’t work. At least, it doesn’t work in the sense that you don’t leave a trail. I spent years doing computer forensics consulting. Do you think we couldn’t retrieve an email because they put it in the “draft” or “spam” or any other folder? The message is on the server so it “exists” and there is a record of it. There is also a record of the account being logged in from two or more separate computers.
That’s what I do. Generally, I just want to keep a photo I took with my phone, and email or a FB message are the easiest options.
Dropbox for files. For links and the like I’ll just use Facebook Messenger or email.
Typically Google Drive for things I need in a hurry, or that are small, because I’m an Android/Google type guy, and I’m logged in with the same account on both.
Larger amounts of stuff (like say… a lot of photos), I just plug my phone into my PC and copy it directly, since my PC does USB 3.0 and I have a USB-C cable, and the phone shows up as an external device much like a thumb drive. ISTR that there was some minor fiddling- a driver or something, that I needed to install as well as some sort of permission on the phone in order to do this. But it was trivial and easily looked up on Google.
Depends on the phone and the computer (we have all combinations in our household). For moving from Android to Mac I(or reverse) use OpenMTP to transfer by USB, which works great, particularly for larger files. For Android to/from Windows you can use the Google transfer app which is horrible. For iPhone to/from Mac you can use the native Mac apps (used to be iTunes but dunno what it is now). For iPhone to Windows I use a Mac then copy from Mac to Windows.
For links I just text myself, as I can read the texts on my iphone, ipad and laptop.
For photos, I might use AirDrop, if I’m nearby, or send myself an email. I also send myself emails from work to home and vice versa, if I have links or photos I want to transfer.
My phone is backed using hubby’s desktop, so I don’t have much on my laptop.
In the past week, let’s see, I have used for this purpose Bluetooth, WiFi, USB, and SD card. Files by email I sent to other people. ISTM that, unless the data are ginormous, once you have the two devices on the same LAN you may as well use any file-transfer application (e.g. FTP). In other words, if it’s just a couple of megabytes, it doesn’t really matter how you send it and you can pick your favourite app.