all the "easy sharing" features across different platforms are kinda usable for one off uses if you have bt, but for frequent use and multiple files you absolutely want a proper network access to use explorer as usual
Nearby Share isn't Google's or Microsoft's Proprietary thing. It is an Open Standard, thing is Apple never allows such things, as it deliberately wants to lock user experience. Hopefully EU comes with a law where Apple has to open up it's forced locked things due to increase in eWaste. like if I already have a Phone, but want an Apple Watch, I need to dump that phone and get an iPhone. so hopefully EU takes note of this and brings in a law to stop this.
LocalSend is an Open source sharing app available on all platforms yes even iOShit im using it to send file between all my devices iPad to PC, PC to PC, android to iPad/PC, it just work using local network wifi
@@MarcSpctr If Nearby Share is an open standard why are google and microsoft developing their own version of it? It's not a "standard" Also just don't buy an apple watch if you don't want apple. Had an android watch for years (first with android, then with iphone) and it literally never worked.
The fact it's not even ON by default. The fact it doesn't work with Google Nearby Share, Samsung QuickShare etc. The fact their names are all so similar regular people will never know what's what. The fact you need bluetooth even if on the same network. The fact you have to set your network as private. The fact you literally have to download a third party app that isn't even from Microsoft to use it. It's poorly made in every way, and that's a fact.
To be fair on your second point, everyone is equally culpable for just refusing to use a universal protocol. Sometimes it feels like the existence of USB itself is some sort of miracle from an alternate dimension. Also, this crappy "bluetooth as a proxy for proximity" really needs to be solved systemically, Passkeys to the same thing. We need a standard like the Apple proximity thingy to allow devices to just figure out if they're within x meters and perhaps facing each other.
I have found doing this is a pain in the ass to set up but once it is you never have to touch it again. Even if they get disconnected sometimes it just figures it out. Still janky regardless.
If I have to go through all the steps to enable it between two devices in the same network, and it needs stupid bluetooth to share something over a network at which the devices are already connected together I really don't know what the developers thought when implementing the feature? Create another connection while there already is a connection? Why not simplify how a shared folder works? Or simplify the setup for one? Why not make a default folder in documents called "shared files from user" and make that always accessible over the network? There are plenty of options that are technically easier and less of a hassle to setup. Not even talking about the fact that it has nearly the same name as the android equivalent. With the correct app you can also just access shared folders on a windows device. Even the stock file app from Samsung can do that. MiXplorer has a lot of features regarding files and sharing on Android.
Well if we want to make it as seamless as Apple, Microsoft and Google has to sit together and come up with something less stupid. Oh also Samsung and other major phone brands... I have an old LG G6 that has Smartshare Beam, and then there is NFC Android Beam, and then Samsung has Quick Share, Google comes up with Nearby Share, now Microsoft has Nearby Sharing. I end up using old school Bluetooth to transfer files between devices...
With all my complaints about Apple, once you get started in the ecosystem it’s just so easy…. “But then you have to have multiple Apple devices” yup. But if you do, it’s neat….
"you might need to update" someone has never used windows 10 or 11 home because you can't go 5 seconds without it forcibly restarting to update without letting you save what you were doing
Both can be a massive hassle depending on the user. I can guarantee you most average computer users will have absolutely no clue on how to setup a network share, much less connect to it.
Ikr? I'm so glad that I have a NAS and on top of that, in my desktop I have a spare 6TB WD Black that I use as a swap drive between all my laptops and PC's. Combined with a USB C cable for my phone, I'm all set haha
They somehow think they added something for convenience, but because the number of hoops to turn it on and fit the requirements is inconsistent its mostly worthless... - Bluetooth means most DIY built desktops are out. - it's not default to on (with the same account setting)??? - it's windows to windows only... The main usage on mac is between iphones, it just happens to be identical on the laptops and desktops, so it gets used. Between windows machines it's simpler to open a network shared folder... And it's always been a feature... It takes just as many steps to turn on without any dumb extra requirements. Great video though. Made it pretty quick after finding out this was a thing from WAN show chat 😂
@@o4ugDF54PLqUrecently I was moving stuff that we didn't want to throw at the cloud to my moms new laptop and somehow network just worked without any setup, though that probably came from the fact windows figured out it's the same user so it just worked across different users I still haven't figured it out, used to just create torrents as that was easier...
You mean transferring through a router ? How do you increase transfer speeds ? Cause last time i checked, it is limited to 1MBytes/s. I get 11 Mbytes/s when i connect two computers directly with ethernet cable.
also, you can share certain things with the your phone app and if you use the swiftkey keyboard on your phone you can turn on clipboard sharing to copy and paste between devices.
0:00 Moving dadda from one device to another is actually pretty hard, because he's pretty technologically inept. Literally every time I say "Go to your desktop" he responds with "what's the desktop?"
I don't log in with a microsoft account (and never want to). I use local accounts tyvm. - and why would I want to do big data transfer over wifi... that's what Ethernet is for. and it only takes a few seconds to share a folder on a windows machine. right-click on the folder you want to share, click on properties, click the sharing tab, click share, and then click on the person you want to give permissions to share it with, then click ok. it'll even let you send an e-mail or copy a link to the share that you can send to yourself or someone else on your local network so they (or you) can access the share from another machine.
Definitely going to check out the app for Android! I've been having the oddly specific issue that the USB-C port on my docking station is borderline unusable, while both USB-C ports on the computer itself are occupied by the docking connection. I need to rewire my entire setup in order to transfer files to my phone.
Astonishing. As I waited for this video to load I was hooking my phone up to my computer to transfer files and the first words he says are about hooking up devices to transfer files as I was inserting the cable.
Little addition here! After clicking "share" on the file i wanted to share, I had to click the hamburger drop down menu then select "more apps" for the nearby share option to be shown.
This is so convoluted I'd rather continue using usb sticks. Why you need to have a bluetooth connection is beyond me. You should be able to just send files to every PC on your local network, the PC's can see each other and you could still do the popup thing.
AirPlay (edit: AirDrop, thanks) is so much more seamless... I understand some of the flak Apple gets for being overpriced, but lots of these integration features they do in MacOS works about as you'd expect. Windows really needs to step up how it presents it's capabilities - unnecessary complexity
@@astroch nothing would prevent them and hopefully also the linux community to work together on an open standard compatible with windows, android and linux
You pay extra for the low-headache Apple ecosystem. Got a iPhone for dev work a few years back, dipped my toes in that ecosystem, and eventually dove fully in. I love fiddling with stuff, I hate fiddling with stuff that I don't want to fiddle with and when I'm not intending to fiddle with stuff. Daily driver tech I want to just work and do what I want without any hassle, and that's the one thing Apple delivers on pretty consistently.
Apples ecosystem is closed and proprietary. Of course it can be more streamlined since it has a lot fewer things to take into consideration. This is also why Apple sucks.
Weird how this feature is op but microsoft refuses to add to the action center by default also this video kind of makes it look more complicated than it is, simply right-clicking a file and sharing will allow you enable nearby sharing as long as its a supported device. Asides android support cus thats hot mess
I have 2 computers I'd like to share files between in my house. Its unreasonably frustrating to try and get it done without looking up a convoluted guide. Why is it taking until 2023/4 updates to share files on the same router?
People here are saying like it’s much harder than on macOS for no reason. Nearby sharing is a new feature, which is disable by default yet and not available on every device.
Rather just make a sharing folder, dump all the stuff i wanna share there and just take it from the other PC. Clicking share 1 by 1... no thanks. Interesting tho, it reminds me of how phones work.
The Windows Nearby Share app is surprisingly sturdy and low impact And since nearby share is built into all phones that matter, it's such a no-brainer to get
Build a Nas and setup an SMB, then save all pics, downloads, and documents to it. Then, every PC that has credentials to the SMB has access to all those files all the time. That is so much easier and doesn't require a Microsoft account. And it works cross platform. Yes, Windows, Linux, Android, and Mac. Even some home brew on game consoles. Don't even need a powerful computer to host it.
This is what I use across the board without having to log in to any 3rd party. I think people are lazy or crazy to use something like Plex when SMB and, say, VLC work just fine (and no 3rd party sees your indexes)
@@BartT75 Its hardly lazy, VLC doesn't allow me to watch on a TV without a PC (using much less electricity) and present it in a Netflix style service that remembers what I watched, if I stopped in the middle, etc. I use VLC and Plex, they're very different use cases.
I use PhotoSync to backup my phone files to a SMB share on my NAS. No paying for extra storage each month and I periodically can back it up to external drives. Plus no chance of losing access to my photos if someone compromises my Google account. I intended to go one further and install NextCloud but never gotten around to it.
@@alexatkin I use Trunas Core and run NextCloud on it. The Nextcloud is used to back up saved games and custom content for gaming, but the SMB holds all the downloads and files. The automatic sync of nextcloud is key for the saves, and I love having the additional features like calander and mail in one place.
@@alexatkin I should have been more specific, even though we were talking about SMB. I should have said Plex *Media Server* as to avoid anyone thinking I also was referring to cloud streaming
I use Airdrop with my Apple devices, and for windows and Linux I just use snapdrop cause it’s over the local network with no setup necessary These hidden requirements, menus after menus in submenus is very, very microsoftesque
If you mention a link, you have to put it in video description or at least in a pinned comment. I can go google that android to windows file sharing, but for real, why don't you put a link that can be just clicked or copied?
Yes, turning file sharing may be tricky for a novice but checking windows 10 version and specific bluetooth functionality via Device Manager should be more doable. Okay :D
a company could make a killing by making a program that works the same way as having a discord channel with just yourself in it, the way that people actually send files across devices lmao
Transfering between my handheld pc and laptop, I just use Advanced Sharing and set up folders so that I can access it as if it's a network drive. Used wired LAN cable for fastest transfer. For android to PC, I use Solid Explorer on android then transfer through FTP cus wired transfer on phone sucks.
I took an old PC and made it a server. We put all our games on it and when my son gets mad and deletes his game he can redownload it from there and not use data.
Legit was trying to figure out why my Nearby Share wasn't working with my PC last night. Ended up using Samsung's Quick Share and creating a link, which just pops up in my notifications on Windows with the Phone Link app.
guys can you help me out on this, my laptop from lenovo with 32 gbs of ram and the intel iris Xe takes shared gpu memory of 16 gigs by default i can't think of a way to convert into my normal ram so can you help me out. any time i am using more than 16 gigs of ram apps(games) just crash.
I tried to upgrade to Windows 11, and it broke all of my drivers and corrupted my hard drives. 😢 I had to take my computer to a PC repair place, after resetting windows and reinstalling the drivers didn’t work.
I see why nobody uses this.
My thought exactly. I'd have a network connection set up twice as fast - or heck, even just e-mailed the file.
@@danieloberhofer9035 sure but what if you want to transfer a very large file, like a backup of your Steam library?
@@50PullUps Network. That's what 10g is for.
I'd use this if this was wifi only
@@50PullUpsIf it's over Bluetooth then it transfers at less than a megabyte a second and even near by share over wifi it wouldn't be over 2 mbps
all the "easy sharing" features across different platforms are kinda usable for one off uses if you have bt, but for frequent use and multiple files you absolutely want a proper network access to use explorer as usual
Exactly this. I changed my libraries to a cloud location specifically so I could easily access everything from either of my computers.
Except that it's slooow. I never have it faster than 6-7 MB/s while other solutions can manage several times faster speeds.
good thing my pc still runs windows 7, it can use smb 1.0 file sharing without any issues.
that is really insecure @@systemdatabase9710
Lan messenger is also a good option
Can we pleeeease get an open standard for Airdrop-like functionality that works across all desktop and mobile operating systems?
yes please.
I mean, that's what nearby share is
Just doesn't work on iPhones cause Apple be Apple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nearby Share isn't Google's or Microsoft's Proprietary thing. It is an Open Standard, thing is Apple never allows such things, as it deliberately wants to lock user experience.
Hopefully EU comes with a law where Apple has to open up it's forced locked things due to increase in eWaste.
like if I already have a Phone, but want an Apple Watch, I need to dump that phone and get an iPhone.
so hopefully EU takes note of this and brings in a law to stop this.
LocalSend is an Open source sharing app available on all platforms yes even iOShit
im using it to send file between all my devices iPad to PC, PC to PC, android to iPad/PC, it just work using local network wifi
@@MarcSpctr
If Nearby Share is an open standard why are google and microsoft developing their own version of it? It's not a "standard"
Also just don't buy an apple watch if you don't want apple. Had an android watch for years (first with android, then with iphone) and it literally never worked.
The fact it's not even ON by default.
The fact it doesn't work with Google Nearby Share, Samsung QuickShare etc.
The fact their names are all so similar regular people will never know what's what.
The fact you need bluetooth even if on the same network.
The fact you have to set your network as private.
The fact you literally have to download a third party app that isn't even from Microsoft to use it.
It's poorly made in every way, and that's a fact.
To be fair on your second point, everyone is equally culpable for just refusing to use a universal protocol. Sometimes it feels like the existence of USB itself is some sort of miracle from an alternate dimension.
Also, this crappy "bluetooth as a proxy for proximity" really needs to be solved systemically, Passkeys to the same thing. We need a standard like the Apple proximity thingy to allow devices to just figure out if they're within x meters and perhaps facing each other.
I'm still using a shared folder for my local network. It works with windows 11,10 and 7 which is what's important for me.
And I can access it on my iPhone, and I don’t need to be signed into windows.
I have found doing this is a pain in the ass to set up but once it is you never have to touch it again. Even if they get disconnected sometimes it just figures it out. Still janky regardless.
And you don't need an intrusive Microsoft account to use it.
If I have to go through all the steps to enable it between two devices in the same network, and it needs stupid bluetooth to share something over a network at which the devices are already connected together I really don't know what the developers thought when implementing the feature? Create another connection while there already is a connection? Why not simplify how a shared folder works? Or simplify the setup for one? Why not make a default folder in documents called "shared files from user" and make that always accessible over the network? There are plenty of options that are technically easier and less of a hassle to setup. Not even talking about the fact that it has nearly the same name as the android equivalent.
With the correct app you can also just access shared folders on a windows device. Even the stock file app from Samsung can do that. MiXplorer has a lot of features regarding files and sharing on Android.
Yes this works best especially for Android as well
Windows took a peek at MacOS and said... "that, but make it funking horrible!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, pretty much
better than being in a walled garden
As a regular user of both platforms I agree.
I literally tried this 30 mins back and it didn't work😅
Try letting Windows to "search for problems"
it's also never works
@@anatolyivanov890Windows searching vor problems did one time solve a problem for me and I was absolutely shocked.
Once in a lifetime experience.
I mean.. that's why we never use it.
windows networking doesn't work half the time either
sometimes other computers on the network just disappear for no reason
Well if we want to make it as seamless as Apple, Microsoft and Google has to sit together and come up with something less stupid. Oh also Samsung and other major phone brands... I have an old LG G6 that has Smartshare Beam, and then there is NFC Android Beam, and then Samsung has Quick Share, Google comes up with Nearby Share, now Microsoft has Nearby Sharing. I end up using old school Bluetooth to transfer files between devices...
With all my complaints about Apple, once you get started in the ecosystem it’s just so easy…. “But then you have to have multiple Apple devices” yup. But if you do, it’s neat….
Samsung and Microsoft actually _have_ done that. It's called the Your Phone app. It's pretty great. Also supports Android apps on Windows 10.
@@ryanhamstra49yup and now you gotta use apple and not anyone else. That's my issue. It's apples way or no way.
Don't use bt. Use nearby. We all have it.
"you might need to update" someone has never used windows 10 or 11 home because you can't go 5 seconds without it forcibly restarting to update without letting you save what you were doing
That sounds like a tremendous hassle to do, compared to just simply setting up a network drive.
Both can be a massive hassle depending on the user. I can guarantee you most average computer users will have absolutely no clue on how to setup a network share, much less connect to it.
its easier between phones but between pcs and phones a network share is better
settings up a network drive is a hassle as well
I use intel unison instead. far better.😊
Ikr? I'm so glad that I have a NAS and on top of that, in my desktop I have a spare 6TB WD Black that I use as a swap drive between all my laptops and PC's. Combined with a USB C cable for my phone, I'm all set haha
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They somehow think they added something for convenience, but because the number of hoops to turn it on and fit the requirements is inconsistent its mostly worthless...
- Bluetooth means most DIY built desktops are out.
- it's not default to on (with the same account setting)???
- it's windows to windows only... The main usage on mac is between iphones, it just happens to be identical on the laptops and desktops, so it gets used.
Between windows machines it's simpler to open a network shared folder... And it's always been a feature... It takes just as many steps to turn on without any dumb extra requirements.
Great video though. Made it pretty quick after finding out this was a thing from WAN show chat 😂
This is best for instant sharing of small files.
And you thought setting up a local network was hard..... The caveats on this make it significantly harder to get working
This is more complicated than just setting up networking.
For now, yes, but not after the next refresh of the windows folder sharing user interface
lol it's not even close, to fix networking issues you need to sacrifice a few goats
@@o4ugDF54PLqUrecently I was moving stuff that we didn't want to throw at the cloud to my moms new laptop and somehow network just worked without any setup, though that probably came from the fact windows figured out it's the same user so it just worked
across different users I still haven't figured it out, used to just create torrents as that was easier...
@@shodanxxand when is that coming
@grigrp1227 10 years from now I guess.
Always wondered what's that nearby share thing thanks for this vid
I use this all the time to transfer video between my PC and phone, works great!
This sounds more complicated than setting up a local shared folder lol. I still prefer just using a usb or external hard drive though.
You mean transferring through a router ? How do you increase transfer speeds ? Cause last time i checked, it is limited to 1MBytes/s. I get 11 Mbytes/s when i connect two computers directly with ethernet cable.
also, alternatively, any chat app or media sharing site.
also, you can share certain things with the your phone app and if you use the swiftkey keyboard on your phone you can turn on clipboard sharing to copy and paste between devices.
Great to see another Techquickie video!
here quick, windows has shared folders, that creates network drives, if there wasn't like chrome os I would go insane.
Thanks for the genuinely useful tips!
0:00 Moving dadda from one device to another is actually pretty hard, because he's pretty technologically inept. Literally every time I say "Go to your desktop" he responds with "what's the desktop?"
For your own phone and computer, once you set up Syncthing, you've done the work for every file transfer in the future.
We can use the Drop feature via Edge too.
Thank you so much for this video
I don't log in with a microsoft account (and never want to). I use local accounts tyvm. - and why would I want to do big data transfer over wifi... that's what Ethernet is for. and it only takes a few seconds to share a folder on a windows machine. right-click on the folder you want to share, click on properties, click the sharing tab, click share, and then click on the person you want to give permissions to share it with, then click ok. it'll even let you send an e-mail or copy a link to the share that you can send to yourself or someone else on your local network so they (or you) can access the share from another machine.
Thanks for these updates.
Definitely going to check out the app for Android! I've been having the oddly specific issue that the USB-C port on my docking station is borderline unusable, while both USB-C ports on the computer itself are occupied by the docking connection. I need to rewire my entire setup in order to transfer files to my phone.
Just What I have been waiting for! TY
You don't need to update, Nearby Sharing has worked for years.
Android Nearby Share actually uses Wi-Fi, though it might use bluetooth for discovery
Thanks for the tips!
Me: “Mom, can we have AirDrop?”
Mom: “We have AirDrop at home”
AirDrop at home:
Astonishing. As I waited for this video to load I was hooking my phone up to my computer to transfer files and the first words he says are about hooking up devices to transfer files as I was inserting the cable.
Little addition here! After clicking "share" on the file i wanted to share, I had to click the hamburger drop down menu then select "more apps" for the nearby share option to be shown.
This is so convoluted I'd rather continue using usb sticks. Why you need to have a bluetooth connection is beyond me. You should be able to just send files to every PC on your local network, the PC's can see each other and you could still do the popup thing.
3:46 *all modern android devices with Google Services. I sometimes miss the nearby share on my devices where I installed microg...
Does the "Search" feature work yet? Or does it still just show you ads and want to look on the web.
AirPlay (edit: AirDrop, thanks) is so much more seamless... I understand some of the flak Apple gets for being overpriced, but lots of these integration features they do in MacOS works about as you'd expect. Windows really needs to step up how it presents it's capabilities - unnecessary complexity
Airdrop
Windows and google are different companies. You are welcomed
@@astroch nothing would prevent them and hopefully also the linux community to work together on an open standard compatible with windows, android and linux
You pay extra for the low-headache Apple ecosystem. Got a iPhone for dev work a few years back, dipped my toes in that ecosystem, and eventually dove fully in. I love fiddling with stuff, I hate fiddling with stuff that I don't want to fiddle with and when I'm not intending to fiddle with stuff. Daily driver tech I want to just work and do what I want without any hassle, and that's the one thing Apple delivers on pretty consistently.
Apples ecosystem is closed and proprietary. Of course it can be more streamlined since it has a lot fewer things to take into consideration. This is also why Apple sucks.
Weird how this feature is op but microsoft refuses to add to the action center by default also this video kind of makes it look more complicated than it is, simply right-clicking a file and sharing will allow you enable nearby sharing as long as its a supported device. Asides android support cus thats hot mess
i use nearby sharing with phone to windows laptop (and vice versa) and its goooooood
I have 2 computers I'd like to share files between in my house. Its unreasonably frustrating to try and get it done without looking up a convoluted guide. Why is it taking until 2023/4 updates to share files on the same router?
will Nearby Sharing work on a computer if it has a bluetooth dongle?
Neat, literally just as many steps as setting up a workgroup in PC. Just less efficient.
People here are saying like it’s much harder than on macOS for no reason. Nearby sharing is a new feature, which is disable by default yet and not available on every device.
Samsung phones already have a feature called "nearby share" and it has options for "nobody" "contacts only" "my devices" or "everyone"
Love this dude!
Not video related, but this video still has LTX ticket link in the description. Not sure if that's intentional
Rather just make a sharing folder, dump all the stuff i wanna share there and just take it from the other PC. Clicking share 1 by 1... no thanks. Interesting tho, it reminds me of how phones work.
KDE Connect is a good way to share files and notifications from mobile.
Problem is it never uses the network connection, even if they are on the same one. It just falls back to Bluetooth smh.
The Windows Nearby Share app is surprisingly sturdy and low impact
And since nearby share is built into all phones that matter, it's such a no-brainer to get
you mean to say that my cheeseburger phone doesn't matter?
@@smallbutdeadly931 yes
Eat it
You say that like android phones matter.
@@kenzieduckmoooutside of the US, yes. People in other countries have more android phones than iPhones.
Doesn’t matter in the US. The poors that have Android phones can’t afford PCs.
Great video!!
I find it funny that this was posted before Linus and Luke struggled with the same feature on this weeks WAN show
AirDroid. All platforms, and as fast as your Wifi.
Build a Nas and setup an SMB, then save all pics, downloads, and documents to it. Then, every PC that has credentials to the SMB has access to all those files all the time. That is so much easier and doesn't require a Microsoft account. And it works cross platform. Yes, Windows, Linux, Android, and Mac. Even some home brew on game consoles. Don't even need a powerful computer to host it.
This is what I use across the board without having to log in to any 3rd party. I think people are lazy or crazy to use something like Plex when SMB and, say, VLC work just fine
(and no 3rd party sees your indexes)
@@BartT75 Its hardly lazy, VLC doesn't allow me to watch on a TV without a PC (using much less electricity) and present it in a Netflix style service that remembers what I watched, if I stopped in the middle, etc. I use VLC and Plex, they're very different use cases.
I use PhotoSync to backup my phone files to a SMB share on my NAS. No paying for extra storage each month and I periodically can back it up to external drives. Plus no chance of losing access to my photos if someone compromises my Google account.
I intended to go one further and install NextCloud but never gotten around to it.
@@alexatkin I use Trunas Core and run NextCloud on it. The Nextcloud is used to back up saved games and custom content for gaming, but the SMB holds all the downloads and files. The automatic sync of nextcloud is key for the saves, and I love having the additional features like calander and mail in one place.
@@alexatkin I should have been more specific, even though we were talking about SMB. I should have said Plex *Media Server* as to avoid anyone thinking I also was referring to cloud streaming
It's a lot simpler using Warpinator.
Nearby sharing has been helpful for me. Granted, i installed the android companion program, and am not using windows's built in version
I use Samsung Flow app which works great for sharing files between samsung phone and a pc.
the inconsistencies makes me decided to build home NAS
I smashed my 32 Bit PC into 64 Bits, does that 'count'? Uh oh!
Well, I use Nearby Sharing almost everyday to share small image files and docs between my two laptops. Haha works just fine for small files though
What about Intel Unison? Works with my Android phone and AMD laptop. It is just amazing
I've been using bluetooth share for years on W10 to transfer from and to my phone
I use Airdrop with my Apple devices, and for windows and Linux I just use snapdrop cause it’s over the local network with no setup necessary
These hidden requirements, menus after menus in submenus is very, very microsoftesque
one of the few things where being in the apple ecosystem would be nice
If you mention a link, you have to put it in video description or at least in a pinned comment. I can go google that android to windows file sharing, but for real, why don't you put a link that can be just clicked or copied?
Yes, turning file sharing may be tricky for a novice but checking windows 10 version and specific bluetooth functionality via Device Manager should be more doable. Okay :D
***Airdrop enters the chat***
3:25 Why? Why it won't work within WLAN local area network?..it is way more convinent to use snapdrop..it is web type file sharing
I just want to transfer soem games from XP to W10 and some files...why so hard to do over a simple wire? I don't use BT nor am I interested in it.
I tried it just now and haven't found a way to send folders. As far as I can see you can only send individual files. What a bummer
a company could make a killing by making a program that works the same way as having a discord channel with just yourself in it, the way that people actually send files across devices lmao
Transfering between my handheld pc and laptop, I just use Advanced Sharing and set up folders so that I can access it as if it's a network drive. Used wired LAN cable for fastest transfer. For android to PC, I use Solid Explorer on android then transfer through FTP cus wired transfer on phone sucks.
What is the best way to add bluetooth to custom pc? I'm confused so many options are there same goes for wifi but I'm using ethernet for it
Been using bluetooth for small quick files and wifi when bigger files. All this near by thing is complicated.
The Best Windows Feature I Don't Use is Windows
There was a update on android that have nearby share natively work with windows now!
I took an old PC and made it a server. We put all our games on it and when my son gets mad and deletes his game he can redownload it from there and not use data.
An honest attempt by Microsoft.
My only question, why is Riley trying to recreate San Andreas from GTA: V on “Cities: Skylines?”
I always have bluetooth turned off to avoid earphones randomly connecting to my laptop.. I can see that why people don't know about this feature.
nice video....sharing is indeed caring
Or you can use KDE connect.
Very intuitive.
Looks like I'm keeping good ol Bluetooth Send/Receive bookmarked cuz this is WAY too convoluted
You know what windows feature I rarely use these days … the boot loader
Ironically, I just tried to use this today I'm not surprised it didn't work. I ended up just using regular Bluetooth.
Legit was trying to figure out why my Nearby Share wasn't working with my PC last night. Ended up using Samsung's Quick Share and creating a link, which just pops up in my notifications on Windows with the Phone Link app.
Google's nearby share app still won't let me sign in on my pc and won't tell me why
I use google drive to move my files between my phone and computer, and it can be use to move files between any device.
I Hope that Microsoft intgrates the android nearby sharing into windows
It would make our lives so much easier
Quick share is now available for all windows pc
So, it’s like Apple air drop except it doesn’t just work and is too complicated for regular people to figure out if it does
nearby sharing only works with work email accounts, not personal ones.
Seems like a little bit of a hassle. Still probably easier to use some cloud storage service.
WHAT IN TARNATION is going on in that album at 2:52!?!?!
Oh neat, I'll try that out. Oh wait, I live alone, I only have 1 computer. Guess I'll just stick to moving files between drives in files explorer, lol
guys can you help me out on this,
my laptop from lenovo with 32 gbs of ram
and the intel iris Xe takes shared gpu memory of 16 gigs by default
i can't think of a way to convert into my normal ram so can you help me out.
any time i am using more than 16 gigs of ram apps(games) just crash.
So you're telling me that it's just fancy Bluetooth sharing. Man, windows has had this since 7
I tried to upgrade to Windows 11, and it broke all of my drivers and corrupted my hard drives. 😢 I had to take my computer to a PC repair place, after resetting windows and reinstalling the drivers didn’t work.