Re: Transferring contents of a large folder (eg 3000 photos) from Android to Windows 10

On 2025-07-19 14:07, Paul wrote:

You could set up FTP on the computer end, to give the various
phone methods another "push" option. Maybe a Wifi protocol would
have slightly better performance than the USB2 (and mainly because
"not using MTP", not just because the link runs at a different speed).
File Sharing might work. FTP might work.

Interestingly, yesterday I was doing a backup of my phone, but using Linux. I used usb3 and MTP.
First I used the GUI method. The part of the software that handled mtp locked. GUI method refused to work after half the files were transferred, need a reboot.
So I found another method, using instead "simple-mtpfs" and rsync. Several files failed to copy, but the thing is, using rsync I just repeated the copy, and after repeating for three times finally all files copied fine.
But my phone remains tied to the cable for possibly hours.
So I wonder about a good ftp server on the phone, to avoid the mtp protocol which seems problematic. But currently I don't have an ftp app that works. Months ago I tried <https://f-droid.org/packages/org.primftpd/>, but this resulted in transferring directories but not the files inside.
So do you know a good ftp or sftp android app that actually works?
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Cheers, Carlos.