On 2024-01-18 13:56, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>
>>> 'Wireless sharing with your PC, made easy.'
>>> 'Send and receive photos, documents and more between nearby Android
>>> devices1 and Windows PCs.'
>>> <https://www.android.com/better-together/nearby-share-app/>
>>
>> Nearby Share was already enabled on phone, but I was unaware of the
>> Window app, installed it, tried to send a file from Win->Android, it
>> just sits there "pulsing" various blue shapes while it tries to detect
>> the phone ...
>
> Just now, I installed the Windows program [1] and I can send from
> Android to Windows and from Windows to Android.
>
> The first time it took a little while - a few seconds - to find the
> phone. The second time it was faster.
>
> Can you transfer a file in the other direction, Android to Windows?
>
> BTW, my laptop has Windows 11 (23H2).
>
> I'm largely unimpressed by Nearby Share! It may be handy for an
> incidental transfer of a file or a few files, but the user interface is
> not very friendly, nor powerful.
>

I have only tried phone to phone.

> I am still looking for a file manager type UI on both Android and
> Windows, where you can copy-and-paste and cut-and-paste/drag
> files/folders from one device to the other via a network (Wi-Fi/mobile)
> connection. Nearby Share isn't that, not at all.

Try Ghost Commander on the phone. It can connect to a Windows share
(smb) and others (sftp (ssh) to Linux, or plain ftp). There are other
similar tools.

....

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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.

Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-01-18 13:56, Frank Slootweg wrote:
[...]
> > I am still looking for a file manager type UI on both Android and
> > Windows, where you can copy-and-paste and cut-and-paste/drag
> > files/folders from one device to the other via a network (Wi-Fi/mobile)
> > connection. Nearby Share isn't that, not at all.
>
> Try Ghost Commander on the phone. It can connect to a Windows share
> (smb) and others (sftp (ssh) to Linux, or plain ftp). There are other
> similar tools.

Yes, I've used tools like that, but, as I said, I *also* want it the
other way around - file manager on Windows to 'share' on Android -, but
that is always a hack, because 1) Android can not be a Network Share for
Windows (it can be a SMB share for Linux, because the Linux client can
use a port which Android allows for the SMB server), 2) FTP is clumsy
and doesn't provide all file operations and 3) WebDAV is even harder to
set up on both sides.

So you need a software supplier which provides *both* the Android side
*and* the Windows side. Google's Nearby Share seemed to fit that bill,
but, as I wrote, it can't do copy-and-paste and cut-and-paste/drag from
a filemanager like UI.