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Posted March 24, 2021
Situation:
* At home (or at the office), you have a desktop with a nice comfortable set-up. This is great for getting work done, but you can't exactly take it with you.
* You also have a laptop. It's not as comfortable for getting work done, but it has the advantage that you can take it with you. (Alternatively, perhaps it's not a laptop, but a second desktop that's in a different location.)
* You do the same work on both computers, but need to transfer your files between them.

This is not exactly an unusual situation, and there's lots of variations on this (doing homework in the school's computer lab, but the lab closes so you have to go home and continue working (in times when school is open, of course, not when they're all online because of the pandemic)).

So, in situations like this, what's your preferred way of transferring the files you're working on between computers?

(This can also apply to gaming for those players who don't use cloud saves, or might need to continue playing in places without internet access.)
Posted March 24, 2021
Usb storage (either pen drives or SSD) or local network, via shared folder. Those are my go to methods.
Post edited March 24, 2021 by Dark_art_
Posted March 24, 2021
If the files are small enough and I can (i.e. it's not blocked by the administrator) use it, I prefer cloud storage services. MEGA is the one I use most often. Otherwise I'd just use some USB drive.
Posted March 24, 2021
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dtgreene: Situation:
* At home (or at the office), you have a desktop with a nice comfortable set-up. This is great for getting work done, but you can't exactly take it with you.
* You also have a laptop. It's not as comfortable for getting work done, but it has the advantage that you can take it with you. (Alternatively, perhaps it's not a laptop, but a second desktop that's in a different location.)
* You do the same work on both computers, but need to transfer your files between them.

This is not exactly an unusual situation, and there's lots of variations on this (doing homework in the school's computer lab, but the lab closes so you have to go home and continue working (in times when school is open, of course, not when they're all online because of the pandemic)).

So, in situations like this, what's your preferred way of transferring the files you're working on between computers?

(This can also apply to gaming for those players who don't use cloud saves, or might need to continue playing in places without internet access.)
Thumb drive. Assumes both computers have USB connections (when I was at university, the IT service didn't allow you to connect drives via USB). Where you can't do this, if the file is relatively small, I'll email it to myself. If it's larger, then some form of cloud storage.

However, this hasn't been an issue for me since starting employment as no work files are allowed to come off the secure network, so my work laptop VPNs into the work network from wherever.
Posted March 24, 2021
I've been working at home since last year, but before that I did most of my work at my office. I constantly had to transfer files between the computers at home and the office, some times just to finish a job at home, but other times because my office Internet service was down for days (very common here in Venezuela) and I had to send and download all my files at home (I work as a freelance comic book letterer and I'm always sending and receiving large files), so I couldn't always rely on cloud transfer.

I always carried a pen drive in my pocket, this was my preferred method to transfer files if my Internet was down at home or the office. I also had an external hard drive at the office, in case I exceeded the pen drive's storage limit (usually when making a backup of a bunch of completed jobs).
Posted March 24, 2021
USB Flash stick, Android phone storage or Google Drive, sometimes I put files via messengers.
Posted March 24, 2021
I've been using OneDrive for about five years now. Gives me like a terabyte of storage for all my crap, the folders function exactly like Windows Explorer, I can access everything on my phone as well, and everything works via browser as well if I'm e.g. using a friend's computer. It's failed me about once, years ago, and I can no longer remember how. Besides, it's included in Office that I'm paying for anyway.
Posted March 24, 2021
git push
Posted March 24, 2021
I'm assuming you're using Windows? In that case FileZilla Server on the desktop, FileZilla on the laptop. For Linux, sshd on the desktop, FlieZilla on the laptop.

P.S. I assumed you were referring to local transfers. If you need to connect and copy stuff over the internet, either a file storage solution and a sync client, as others have mentioned, or, if you're not a fan of any clients :), TeamViewer.
Post edited March 24, 2021 by WinterSnowfall
Posted March 24, 2021
USB Pen drive usually does the trick for me.
Posted March 24, 2021
Fileserver or NAS

All important files are stored on the fileserver. PCs make a local copy to work on and then push it back to the fileserver whenever appropriate.


When I want to move files between computers, I'll typically have the source pc copy them to a scratch or archival directory on the fileserver and then have the target pc download them.
Posted March 24, 2021
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Starmaker: git push
What machine do you use as a git server?
Posted March 24, 2021
At work we use OneDrive for Business, which uses SharePoint as back-end and is therefore utter shite.
For source code, we use Git servers.

At home it's regular OneDrive, which is kinda slow but works well enough. On Linux I use rclone to access OneDrive.
We also have a Synology NAS, but I don't allow access to that from outside the home network.
For source code there's GitHub and the aforementioned NAS, which has a Git server package.

USB sticks have failed me too often (not just cheap ones) for me to bother with those anymore.
Post edited March 24, 2021 by brouer
Posted March 24, 2021
I have LAN strewn throughout the house and a network file server.

Across networks, there's SSH tile transfers. Or more often, I'll just remote to home over SSH and work on it directly there.
Posted March 24, 2021
If internet is speedy and reliable enough, I'd use Google Drive or DropBox together with BoxCryptor (https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/). Otherwise a pen drive.
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