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Mr Swordfish

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MC v34 Feature request
« on: March 18, 2025, 10:52:44 am »

Well, not so much as a new feature request, but rather a request to make an existing feature work.

The issue is with the device sync functionality for Windows -> Android.  It works perfectly when going from Windows to Windows, but I've never gotten it to work going from Windows to Android.   At the suggestion of others here on the forum, I have a folder on the Windows system and sync to that, then use a 3rd party tool (Resilio Sync) to sync from that folder to to Android.

This works reasonably well, but with two issues: 1) I wind up having to burn about 500G of storage space on the Windows machine to duplicate the library and 2) Resilio Sync is counter-intuitive and difficult to use, plus they no longer support their "home" version.

It would be a HUGE improvement to make the sync to Android functionality work as simply and reliably as the Windows -> Windows functionality.


I'm assuming the issue has something to do with incompatabilities between the Windows file system and the Android file system, but my naive take is that this should be surmountable.

PS -  I've purchased the MC34 license, but haven't upgraded yet.  I have a new Windows 11 desktop PC that will replace my current Windows 10 PC, and will install the new version when I move to the new PC.
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JimH

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Re: MC v34 Feature request
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2025, 12:19:16 pm »

Android prevents file transfer unless you allow it in Android settings for USB.  This changed a few years ago.
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Re: MC v34 Feature request
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2025, 04:15:21 pm »

I'd recommend syncthing, then you can forgo wires completely.
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Mr Swordfish

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Re: MC v34 Feature request
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2025, 08:53:58 am »

Android prevents file transfer unless you allow it in Android settings for USB.  This changed a few years ago.

So, does this feature work reliably now?  I haven't tried it in a while, but my recollection was that the failure mode was more erratic than just "unable to transfer files".  Hence the sync-to-windows folder & use 3rd party app to sync to android.
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Re: MC v34 Feature request
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2025, 08:57:30 am »

I'd recommend syncthing, then you can forgo wires completely.

But I'd still be eating up a couple hundred gigs of storage space to copy all the files to a second folder on Windows, right?
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