If they are local, you can just put it on a thumb drive and physically transfer it.
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If they’re not local, you can put it on a pen drive and mail it to them.
Absolutely, that is definitely preferred when possible!
I used vaultwarden just the other day for this purpose. I mean, I use vaultwarden daily as a password manager, but it also has secure file transfer.
If its a file from my seedbox: Direct share link (optional pw)
Local file: OneDrive
My use case is a bit different than yours but still worth mentioning, I think; I have Sharry running in Docker and it makes sharing and receiving files super easy. All downloads and uploads are resumable so they work well even in unstable networks.
I've use Plik before with success.
I have a minio instance that I use to distribute files
Not sure if this works for you but I didnt see it mentioned. I use plex for my media server, so I would just put whatever it is on there and then someone else can log in remotely and download it through the app on their mobile, and I think also via the website too.
I know this works if the person is downloading from android but haven't tested otherwise.
That should work for media files at least, but I believe they'll also need Plex pass to be able to download anything.
Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).
That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it's more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.
Reminds me I had been needing to find something for this too. Looks like I had thought about using Croc.
Just share the folder on soulseek. Probably not advisable for any sensitive information though xD
Wormhole.app, can't recall if they have a limit atm
I use wormhole, but when I've wanted to use that website for receiving, I can never tell how to do it.
Can you actually use that site to receive files?
So just like when you send a file you fwd a link, someone tfering files to you must provide the link. They expire in a maximum of 24 hours though so do be aware of that.
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Whoever uploaded them has to send you a link to them. It does have a limit of 10gb, but its pretty reliable I'm my experience.
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I tell them to start their Nextcloud client. Or if they don't have it, give them the share link.
I host pingvin for people to send stuff to me. To send, usually I'll just move the file into a folder that exposed to Nginx with indexing and send that link. Otherwise I'll also just use my pingvin instance.