When I try to transfer even small files using USB connection, the file transfer process does not start, but the window of file transfer freezes along file manager (Xfce) and only way to get Thunar opening or working again is to power off the phone. This is weird because last time I transferred files using USB in February everything worked normally.
MY SFOS version is 5.0.0.62.
You should really start using sftp for file transfer. It’s infinitely better and if you use KDE on desktop its godlike
SFTP? Really? IIRC this needs additional software to be installed either on the SFOS device or the PC / Laptop (an SFTP server).
ssh / scp and rsync should work out of the box and are both definitely more “godlike” than SFTP.
Yeah, scp is now even installed by default in windows, no need for extra software
Edit: also try KDE Connect, it has native sfos app, has windows build, if it dies when transfering big files it’s probably your router, start hotspot on your laptop and it works flawlessly to transfer gigabytes without a hitch then
Sailfish has ssh server inbuilt in every installation
ssh/scp/rsync they all use sftp
No, ssh doesn’t use sftp, the other way around sure
Well, LOL, the protocol SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)!
But why do you insist in urging people to use the sftp command for transferring files, which is IMO far less convenient (because it is mimicking an ftp-client) than ssh / scp and rsync?
P.S.: It helps to utilise proper capitalisation to avoid misunderstandings (or rather, “mis-expressings”): SFTP is a protocol (specification), sftp a CLI tool.
Hence “no”, ssh / scp and rsync do not use sftp, though all four seem utilise the SFTP protocol nowadays.
Pretty sure you can have ssh without sftp, so saying ssh utilises sftp is backwards, it’s an extension of ssh, not the other way around
Edit: sad times when even old timers like olf go for chatgpt bullshit, wouldn’t expect anything from MM, but olf, shame
I don’t have experience with Thunar but you could just type something like sftp://defaultuser@local-IP-address into the address bar and see if it’ll work. Developer mode and Remote connectiion should be activated on your SFOS phone of course.
Additionally I set my access point (router) to always give my phone the same IP address in my WiFi network, so that I don’t have to find out the IP address again everytime I come home.
I never ever mentioned sftp command
this is the way! I do that with dolphin and its godlike solution
sshfs uses SFTP and that’s really godlike (but too much power might be dangerous):
# mkdir -p /mnt/xa2
# sshfs root@192.168.3.15:/ /mnt/xa2
Now files on your Jolla are just like local files, e.g.:
# emacs /mnt/xa2/etc/issue
For large files I use rsync since it supports resuming interrupted transmits.
with dolphin my sfos phones are literally just like another directory thanks to kio