Easy-Transfer

About

This project aims to solve one simple problem: To quickly send files from your phone to your computer! And to do so:

• device & OS independent
• with maximum transmission rate
• very user friendly

Usage (Windows)

After installation (see below), the app is ready for use:

• Double-click easy-transfer.exe on your PC
• There might be a windows security pop-up to trust the .exe
• There might be a firewall pop-up to allow acces to your network - that is required for the file-transfer to work
  -> a window with a QR code will appear
• Scan the QR code with your phone and open the link
  -> an upload website will open on your phone
• Select files / folders to upload
• Press the colorful "Upload" Button
  -> the selected files will be copied to your PC
• Find uploaded files on your PC in the ./data directory (next to easy-transfer.exe file)

Linux & MacOS: the executable does not have a .exe file ending, otherwise it is very similar.

Capabilities / Limitations

The transmission only works if your phone / device is in the same local network (WLAN, LAN) as your PC. In case your sending device is a PC, this also works for PC to PC transmissions. Open the link of the upload website on the sending PC via browser.

Technical Details

The .exe serves a website to be accessed by the sending devices plus a simple file server for retrieving files over local network.

The sender website uses standard, multi-platform browser APIs for upload. To keep the app lightweight and easy to maintain, it's written in Go + vanilla Javascript + Axios for the file transmission.

Install

You can build the program from source, or download the .exe from the latest release.

Info: For building from source, you need Go installed on your system. See below.

Clone the project and build it manually:

git clone https://github.com/chucnorrisful/easy-transfer.git
cd easy-transfer
go build

# run the executable (or just double-click it in the explorer)
./easy-transfer.exe

Install Go

Install the Go programming language on your PC.

For Windows

Browse the official download page of Go and install the Go compiler for your PC.

For Linux/Debian

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install golang-go