In Praise of Snapdrop
In the olden days (in the summer of ’24, before I bought my latest phone), I used to use SSHelper on my (old) Android phone with an FTP client on my laptop(s) for wireless file transfers. Sadly, that has now gone the way of all flesh. Sigh.
With my Ubuntu machine, which is modern and up-to-date, I use LocalSend, which works a treat. My other machine, however, is a fairly antique MacBook, early 2015, still running Mojave (10.14.6), the last Mac OS to include 32-bit libraries (which I must have for one irreplaceable app). And LocalSend doesn’t run on Mojave. Sigh.
Today I went looking (again!) for an alternative. Fortunately, I ran across Snapdrop. It works just like LocalSend, but simply runs in a browser: you visit Snapdrop on your laptop (or whatever), and also on your Android phone, and — hey presto! They are connected, so long as they are on the same wifi network. Hurrah!
There are some limitations, but for my home use (97.3% of the time), these are of no consequence. I’m delighted to have found such a simple and fool-proof solution for my Android⇔Old-MacOS needs!