transferring files between two computers that are bloody next to each other
Bluetooth, as i have always believed, is worse than useless, but all this was so annoying i did give it another try. I transferred one 2.7 MB file successfully (after a couple obligatory bluetooth patented errors, but the ‘send to bluetooth’ function on Debian Mint anticipated that and had a retry button), took less than five minutes, which was exciting, but trying to transfer any more than that at a time failed every time.
Set up filesharing:
sudo apt install gnome-user-share
transfer files between computers with USB ubuntu USB-A to USB-C transfer
Bwahahahahahah https://ccm.net/faq/342-how-to-connect-computers-via-usb
transfer files between two computers connected by ethernet cable
OK… everything looks right after following the below but they cannot ping each other…
I was able to ping in one direction, from old computer to new, so i tried to set up an FTP server on the new computer:
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/ftp-server.html
but i always got connection refused, no matter what.
Finally found a second ethernet cable and plugged both into the router for reasonably stable quick transfer.
But the drag-and-drop in the finder would still flake out.
And rsync -ar would eventually get stuck.
Ultimately this seems to work, from https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/rsync-can%27t-copy-certain-files-with-unusual-characters-while-cp-can-827462/
and i need to remember the –progress flag next time. Every time it gets to a big file i just hope it’s at a big file, and hasn’t stalled entirely. Presumably a .tar.bz2 file might be quite large. But it’s been ten minutes. The previous symptom was that it just stopped for hours, no error; hence the first search term below. The second, more useful error to search for was only shown after i ctrl+c’d out.
does rsync time out? rsynk mkstemp failed Operation not supported (95)
Now it’s been an hour on that tar.bz2 file. How can i tell for certain if it’s transferring or just stuck?