What’s the best way to sync a folder from my windows pc to my android phone in 2023?

    • counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      New to Syncthing and have been using it to sync between my 2 android devices. Is it possible to sync the same folder to a PC as well?

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        I can confirm this is possible. In the past I had a folder synced between my android phone, android tablet, and windows PC.

        The only issue is you need a full mesh sync unless I set something up wrong.

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          You don’t need every device to be able to talk to every device. As long as devices don’t become isolated, changes are eventually propagated to all copies, even if not all in one step.

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            And having a central node as an introducer makes all devices connect to each other effortlessly.

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        As far as I know there is no limit on the number of devices you can sync. So yes it is possible to sync a folder on multiple devices and not only 2.

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        You can do multi-way sync, and many things sharing the same sync folder. Can make conflicts a bit painful to sort out though

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    Syncthing is great once you have it working. It’s not the most intuitive application though. SyncTrayzor helps a lot for pc usage

    SyncTrayzor

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      Looks like you meant “SyncTrayzor”.
      I’ve considered SyncThing before but it looked very fiddly. SyncTrayzor should be very helpful.

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      Syncthing all the way. Once setup and forget.

      I have it sync to pc, other android devices and Nas. I have also synced my Dropbox to phone

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      This is the setup I’m using, too. Does everyone have the irritating problem on Windows, though, where Synctrayzor really likes to float some sort of tooltip with its own name in the upper-left corner? Even overlays full-screen games for me.

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      Same. The free version is sufficient. I use it to transfer the full resolution photos and videos from the phone to two computers. Syncthing is also good.

  • Carter@feddit.uk
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    As others have said it would havetio be SyncThing. I’m sure other solutions exist but it’s remarkably easy.

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    I am trying to do this with my nextcloud, any idea? (For my phone to download automarically the new version of a file)

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    I use Autosync (Android devices --> Google Drive) and Google Drive’s desktop app. Works perfectly for me.

    You can set it up for a single folder if you like (I keep about 5 folders synced).

  • bet@lemm.ee
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    I don’t do Windows, but I happily sync directories between my Android phones and my Linux PCs (especially a cloud server I lease) with rsync over ssh within Termux.

    If you can set up an rsync server on Windows that should work. Besides actually implementing robust and efficient sync, rsync is also smart about platform differences.

    For the specific case of Windows to Android, I’ve heard of people scripting up tools to shove all the contents of a directory over adb push.