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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by francescovv on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:50AM (#39914659)
That was between two Android phones, with receiving phone being "oppo" or some such, with stock firmware. Receiving phone would see incoming file request, ask user to accept, then error out with "unknown file", and no way to actually save it. I've sent files via bluetooth from lineageos to lineageos, no problem.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by Varriount on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:53AM (#39914679)
I could totally see it being something stupid in how Android manages file associations or something. The default file managers tend to be fairly crippled and only actually show a subset of files present.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by actionfromafar on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:50AM (#39914953)
Perfect irony would be if the receiving Android attempts to check the incoming file against some kind of Internet service.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @10:45AM (#39918184)
It also possible it just dropped it silently in the Downloads directory.

Otherwise ironical that all of this behaves like the 90s PalmOS which could not store a file unless a program would accept it.

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