Syncing files is only one of its capabilities. It is best suited for use between two individuals/organizations that need to transfer files between themselves more than a few times. Its main advantage for me is that it doesn't require a central storage system, such as Dropbox, to hold the files. It's just you and me and a rendezvous server.
In a previous life, I used Syncthing to transfer terabytes of files from the company I worked for to a third-party printer. It was delightfully reliable, and easy to set up.
If it's a one-off, yeah, you're right that it's not wonderful. I've used Magic Wormhole successfully for that use case.
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Free open source alternative: https://pairdrop.net
Magic Wormhole [1] also exists.
[1] https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
And for a web native version, there's also WebWormhole: https://webwormhole.com/
Syncthing [1] also exists
[1] https://syncthing.net/
Syncthing is for syncing folders like Dropbox
It's not a good solution to send individual large files.
Syncing files is only one of its capabilities. It is best suited for use between two individuals/organizations that need to transfer files between themselves more than a few times. Its main advantage for me is that it doesn't require a central storage system, such as Dropbox, to hold the files. It's just you and me and a rendezvous server.
In a previous life, I used Syncthing to transfer terabytes of files from the company I worked for to a third-party printer. It was delightfully reliable, and easy to set up.
If it's a one-off, yeah, you're right that it's not wonderful. I've used Magic Wormhole successfully for that use case.
So it’s the GPG of file sharing?
Is there something like a Magic Wormhole server, so I can e.g host a file on my NAS (behind a NAT) for download long term?
also Keet: https://keet.io/
There's also LocalSend, which I've found works the best for me personally and is a bit more polished than browser clients
There's also croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc
croc has the advantage of being well-established by now. Most package systems have it.
I vibe coded this in one hour to send files to my work laptop. Static page + webRTC + short lived cloudflare durable object to make the handshake.
https://send.drexl.dev/
..also FilePizza as a web service: https://github.com/kern/filepizza
or tailscale's Taildrop as a native application: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
Are you people seriously suggesting webrtc crap in response to a native app built for much much high speed transfers? Unbelievable