File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.
Questions tagged [file-sharing]
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File Name NSString adds unnecessary %20 in space
SOLVED (Thanks Regexident)
I have an app that passes the file path of a PDF to a custom -(id)init init method. It is added to the table and when it is selected, it calls the else statement for a non existent file:
- (void) gridView:(AQGridView…

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disable iTunes file sharing
I would like to disable iTunes file sharing of my app. I went to info.plist and added an entry UIFileSharingEnabled equal to NO.
When I run the app, and go to iExplorer my apps still has visible Documnets folder Library and so on. What additional…

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Transfer ownership for ALL files in user's google drive - using google-api-java-client and the Drive SDK
We have a google corporate account and need to transfer ALL of a user's google drive files to another account in certain instances. We want to do what is described at the following link for "all files" but programatically via the latest Drive API…

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FTP client that functions similarly to Dropbox?
I'm trying to help a wonderful designer who is sadly running out of space on her Dropbox, but is already paying for hosting service that has 100GB available for her. Is there a software that works and that is seamlessly integrated within explorer…

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What happens when I download the same torrent file using BitTorrent in two different pcs and using the same internet connection?
If I have two laptops and connect them to the same internet connection then download the same torrent file using a BitTorrent software, what do the trackers see? and how will the torrent software behave??
Let's say in Laptop A I start downloading…

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How to share files between 2 local ios apps without url scheme or external server?
I have 2 local app "A" and "B". I want that the application "A" call the application "B" and "B" send a response to "A" with a file.
Url scheme is a good solution to call Application "B" but it's a bad solution to send files to "A".
How do I send a…

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Is there any reason to open a file with shared-write access?
I've always opened my files two ways -- either read access and shared-read, or read/write access and no sharing.
To me it seems that allowing shared-write could always result in unexpected things happening to the file while you're reading it. Are…

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NSData type for Java?
I am curious to know if there is anything like the Cocoa NSData Class on Java. I have looked around but I can't find anything. I want to make a file sharing client server application.

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iTunes file sharing - how to upload different folders?
i want to use the "file sharing" feature in my app. I want to create a photo-app which has no content when the user starts it. Therefore the user can select an image-folder on his mac or pc. After that and starting the app on his iphone or ipad, all…

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How do I create a file sending client/server with RSocket?
I can't seem to find any resources/tutorials on RSocket, other than just reading their code on GitHub, which I don't understand.
I have a file's path on my server: String serverFilePath;
I'd like to be able to download it from my client (using…

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Sharing Data Between Apps on an iDevice
Is it possible to share on-disk data between iOS applications, or are they truly sandboxed? In other words if I wanted to make a shared repository of data to be accessed (and/or modified) by one or more of my apps, could it be done?
One of the…

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Best way for web application in IIS to access remote fileshare that requires credentials?
I have a web application, hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 that needs to access a remote directory fileshare on a different Windows machine. My website runs under User1, and access to the remote file share via UNC path requires…

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iOS Sharing Extension works on Device but not in Simulator
I had to delete the Sharing Extension I had in my project and start it over from scratch - its working just fine on my iPhone6 now, but its not showing up in the Simulator - which is very weird.
The Photos App in the Simulator for example is unable…

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Android: How to share files on a local network?
I want to create application which can share files through wifi similar to Xender/Superbeam.
I don't want to rely on router or some other hotspot.
I want to create new connection from one device and other devices should able to find and…

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iPhone Documents directory and UIFileSharingEnabled, hiding certain documents
I want the user to be able to access the files in the documents directory but am using core data and dont want the user to be able to access the store (the sqllite db), can i hide it from the user while still allowing file sharing, or can i put it…

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