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File collecting program?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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What’s the context in which you’re needing to share files?
My first thought is host your own FTP server and send people credentials to log into it with and upload.
I am a teaching assistant, and occasionally people ask me why their code isn't working. I take it to my device so they can continue their work whilst I figure out the issue. I want to minimise the uploading complexity, and the time it takes to upload one.
If it's code, would a private pastebin work for you?
Maybe Gitolite if it's for code?
Is a server a requirement? I haven't tried myself but localsend (p2p) comes to mind.
It would be desirable, as I don't have to be prepared whenever someone starts sending a file, but I suppose I can live without it. Thank you for the suggestion!
If you’re on the same network, take a look at snapdrop. It’s basically cross platform AirDrop.
"Snapdrop is now LimeWire". I didn't even know LimeWire still existed.
Maybe take a look at this fork: pairdrop
Looks like the project is dead…
I’m sure there’s a decent fork. Read the code; there’s not much to it!