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In the forum, I saw a couple of people suggesting,

  1. Syncthing (But Syncthing for Android is dead, AFAIK)
  2. USB stick
  3. Cloud storage

Please suggest if there are any alternatives. Or what is the option that you're using.

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[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If files were easily accessible between profiles, wouldn't that harm the privacy of having multiple profiles?

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. It would provide an attack vectore for sure, that being the data connection between profiles, but if it is implemented in a controllable manner (See qubes os), it's fine. The only issue I see with GrapheneOS in this scenario is: There is no uncompromised host for verification, so I don't really know myself how something safe could be implemented, however I would also think devs don't really want to, since there are ways which OP has already described some of.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

Sorry, my point was when you have control over what gets shared and you basically decide the files yourself, you can also control what kind of data gets shared, so theres not just a straight up hole.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] waldo_was_here@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for link

[–] arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does it work over always on VPN?

[–] Onyx376@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago
[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sorry I've never actually tried it, I just knew it existed

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a syncthing fork that is being maintained.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, it's called Syncthing-fork.

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

Last build is 15 days old.

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hah well how about that.

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Anything where you put the file somewhere under profile A then read it under profile B will work.

Depending on why you want to transfer a file between profiles there are probably different tools you’ll like.