Transfering files between two computers

Created Sunday 19 May 2024

Do it over the network. Physical media has to be transfered twice: once on and once off. Just put it where it's supposed to go in the first place. sftp/ssh is best for this. If you don't have a real computer (anything that's not windows, ☺ ) you can use python. https://www.python.org/.

Setting up python is way harder on windows than any other os. Windows doesn't make computers easy. Oh well. Python out of the box comes with an http server. Invoke python in the folder with the files you want to transfer with the command `python3 -m http.server`. Then, on your other computer you can access the folder and download files one at a time, so it's best to zip them first if there's a lot. It only works if you have local access too, or setup portforwarding (don't portforward this basic http server to the internet, lol).

For more information:
https://realpython.com/python-http-server/

Although that site has weird underscores where the spaces should be in commands they show. Always something.



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