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I use the KDE Desktop on my newer notebooks; it's quite easy to move files between my iPhone & MX Linux on my wireless LAN with KDE Conect. That got me wondering: would it be possible to synchronize file folders with Grsyn or Rsync through KDE Connect? Has anyone tried?

Does this ringing silence mean that this is a bad idea, or does it mean that no one has tried to do this yet?

Probably the latter, but a quick web search of your question brings up this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/a ... file_sync/

For file sync I recommend Syncthing, you can install it on your phone and you sync a folder or more all the time on your computer(s).

@Steve Thank you for your response. That was the first of a very few results of the web search I did before posting; at my level of competence in Linux (low) the barrier that stymied my efforts was the inability to identify the complete path-to-file-internal and path-to-file-external, since I was unable to find a way to open KDE Connect via CLI.

@Adrian Thank you for your response. I was unaware of Syncthing; I'll have to take a look at it!

@Adrian Alas

There are no plans by the current Syncthing team to officially support iOS in the foreseeable future.

iOS has significant restrictions on background processing that make it very hard to run Syncthing reliably and integrate it into the system.

However, there is a commercial packaging of Syncthing for iOS that attempts to work within these limitations.

The attraction for me for KDE Connect is that there is already an iOS app available for both iOS and MX Linux.

I was not aware of iOS limitations... glad I don't use it.

https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2023/0 ... nnect-2-0/

By focussing full time on this, my goal is to implement an mDNS backend for KDE Connect on all supported platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS) before fall this year.

iOS = iPhone?

MXRobo wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:18 pm https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2023/0 ... nnect-2-0/

By focussing full time on this, my goal is to implement an mDNS backend for KDE Connect on all supported platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS) before fall this year.

iOS = iPhone?

Apple gets ... confused a lot. ( which then confuses the herd ;-) )

Although Apple is indeed proprietary hardware (aren't they all?) and software, I use it for the security (such as it is) and updates. My first and second smart phones were Android, until I figured out that if your Android phone was 18 months old it was obsolete and would never get updates again. I switched to iPhones (yes that is iOS) and use them until they are no longer supported. I still use my original iPhone 6s Plus as backup, although it is on the verge of EOL. I hope I can keep my iPhone 13 for as many years.

I look forward to KDE Connect 2.0; maybe they'll come up with a plugin for file synchronization. That would be nice.

I only jest about Apple and iPhone's. Having two mac's and an iPhone in the house and supporting them for years, I think they are very good (Apple and their products have their own issues, but they are good.)

I have not used KDE Connect with an iPhone, however, the reviews and write ups on it look very promising And while I dont think you can rysync with it, it supposedly has a sync feature on the app that looks very good.

Just to make things interesting, I cancelled my home internet connection last week. I was always having connection outages for multiple minutes at a time, so I'm using my 22Gb tethering through Verizon. Although KDE Connect was flawless over home WiFi LAN, I have been unable to successfully use it without a WiFi router LAN or over Bluetooth. Still trying, though.

AltTabDelete wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:57 pm @Steve Thank you for your response. That was the first of a very few results of the web search I did before posting; at my level of competence in Linux (low) the barrier that stymied my efforts was the inability to identify the complete path-to-file-internal and path-to-file-external, since I was unable to find a way to open KDE Connect via CLI.
... abridged

Okay I'll bite the bullet with proviso my skills are probably less than yours and I do not know if this strategy will work with path-to-file-external but it should work with path-to-file-internal
and it is a lazy option?
a - start Konsole
b - open file explorer (I use Dolphin)
c - click and drag the file and plop it into Konsole
d - eh voila! the path to internal file
e - select the whole path
f - Ctrl-Shift-C to copy
g - Ctrl-V to paste it into a Kate text editor
h - edit the path to remove any surplus character
I do not use KDE Connect (yet...) but if the strategy of click n drag into Konsole works well, the beers are on you dude!