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Taildrop is very convenient for sharing files between servers/devices (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Someone mentioned it in a comment and I genuinely didn't know what I was setting up, but its basically airdrop but to all your devices/servers so if you have an iphone like me you can goto any photo/file click share, taildrop, then pick the device, its a prettty fast transfer. It shows up in the downloads folder on my pc by default.

I no longer have to upload to icloud files to grab my files, it is very convenient and seems to be free forever for personal use up to 100 devices? I had no idea what I was even setting up til I saw the guide afterwards, I thought it was for monitoring server health, but it's made sharing files between devices/servers very convenient. (this was likely obvious, just wanted to share with others who didn't know)

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 27 points 1 week ago

For a second there I thought you'd genuinely connected all your devices to a service you didn't know the first thing about 😄

TIL Taildrop is a new(ish?) Tailscale feature that adds airdrop-alike transfer to your tailnet.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I use KDE Connect for laptop to desktop transfers.

[–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know it's not the same but I've been using syncthing on a Nas to sync files. Don't really have a tool for file transfers though.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But what about when you want to move a few gigs out of your phone to free up space?

[–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been syncing big files to Nas them deleting them from my phone

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you turn off two way sync? I thought deleting data from your phone would make the system to interpret the change as an update and delete the data from your Nas too.

[–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I turned it off, the Nas only receives and keeps previous versions and the phone only sends. For my other shares it's different.

[–] Knossos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also use something called wormhole. Very handy tech.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Also portal which is LAN aware.

[–] Keelhaul@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I use snapdrop/pairdrop for quick and easy file transfers, but I found transfers to be quite slow, so this may be an alternative for larger files.