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Is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network or the Internet.

Is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network or the Internet. There are numerous ways and protocols to transfer files over a network. Computers which provide a file transfer service are often called file servers. Depending on the client's perspective, the data transfer can be called uploading or downloading.

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How to open a browser on a Google Compute Engine VM

How can I open a browser in my VM instance? And how safe/unsafe can this be? The instance is a Ubuntu 16.04 The only way I know to access the VM is via the SSH button provided by google on the cloud console website. I want to use it regularly, with…
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How do I let a user upload files to internal storage?

I am writing a small app that reads files that must be regularly written to storage on the device from a source external to the device, be it USB, Bluetooth, Airdroid, etc. From what I've read, nothing like that can write to internal storage. I…
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How to send file over serial port in Windows Command Prompt

I'm trying to send files over a COM port, but failed every time. First, I configure a serial on each machine like this: MODE COMx:115200,N,8 where x is the COM port number. After this I'm trying to do: COPY file.zip COM1: /B and the reverse on the…
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Browse file system of Raspberry Pi from android via bluetooth

Use Case: I am working on a project which involves a android phone and Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi unit would be planted with sensors in the field and once in a while user would walk around with the phone and try to get the readings from the…
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Atomic file copy under .NET

I am building a server app that copies files using System.IO.File.Copy(...) function. My files can be rather large, therefore, it has a fair chance that if the machine crashes, it happens during copying. After restarting the service, I should be…
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How can I transfer a document between two apps on the same iOS device?

I have an iPhone app that some of my users are running on their iPad in emulation mode. We're thinking about creating an iPad-optimized app, as well, which would be a separate app in the App Store (more features, different price point). The problem…
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File transfer between android and iPhone via bluetooth?

I was thinking of developing an iPhone and android application so that they can share data between each other via bluetooth. Is it possible? If yes how? Thanks for your help
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python socket file transfer

I'm trying to write transfer files or chunks of data over a socket. I feel as if I'm reinventing the wheel, but my searches for a simple solution have failed (everything I find is either too simple or too complex). The server would run on a phone…
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Sender and receiver to transfer files over ssh on request?

I created a program that iterates over a bunch of files and invokes for some of them: scp user@host: However, in my case, there may be thousands of small files that need to transferred, and scp is opening a new ssh connection for…
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How to transfer a file using a proxy with JSch library

I want to transfer files to a remote location and I am bound to use a proxy server for that. I was able to connect to the FTP location via following command : sftp -o "ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -X connect -x : %h %p"…
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FileTransfer using XmppFrameWork in ios

i have implemented some code of file transfer by using this tutorial : Please Click Here. and the code which i am using : - (void)sendToOtherDevice:(NSData *)fileData receiverJid:(NSString *)receiverJid { XMPPJID *jid = [XMPPJID…
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Slow file transfer using Multipeer Connectivity framework

I'm sending a file between two devices using iOS 7's Multipeer Connectivity Framework. I'm using NSStreams to tranfer the file, as my previous attempt using MCSession's sendData:toPeers:withMode was really unreliable. Unfortunately the transfer…
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How to list files directory/files using Apache Common vfs

i am new using Apache Common vfs, I success connect to the server I already read docs but i'm stuck in this code. How i can list directory/files? .... Session session = null; FileSystemManager fsManager = null; FileSystem fs =…
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Which Protocol is best for File Transfer

What is the best protocol I can use to transfer a big file, which should be fast and reliable? It must support low bandwidth systems since I need a file transmission across India. The file size may be 100 to 500MB.
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Bluetooth file transfer Android

I am facing a problem in sending large files over bluetooth sockets. Smaller files get transferred correctly. I believe upto 161280 bytes get transferred correctly. EDIT: I did some more testing and narrowed down the cause. It seems that…
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