 All right, so this video is going to be on sync thing sync thing is a very nice program you may have heard of this You may not have but it's definitely worth trying out It is it's a kind of well. It actually answers a lot of questions. I get Some people want to know how to sync files between computers. They don't want to run our sync or something like that They want something that they never have to touch they never have to think about they don't want to set up a cron job Or anything complicated They just want files to sync sync thing can do that Another thing sync thing can do is it can actually run on these odious devices It can run on phones So if you want to keep the files you have on your phone and sync with your computer Sync thing is a great thing You don't have to do any tethering or something like that In fact, this is what I use to keep if I you know download a file on my phone It will automatically through sync thing go to my computer and I can modify it or do whatever I want with it Now sync thing works both ways if you make updates on one device it updates all the other devices connected to it So it's very useful if you just want to never have to think about keeping basic files and sync So sync thing pretty much is in any Linux repository For any distro if you just pretty much Install it. It's usually it's in the main repository in arch. I already have an installed So obviously I don't need to reinstall it But pretty I'm pretty sure it's in Ubuntu and Debian and stuff like that But if not, it's in you know a PPA or something But anyway, I already have sync thing installed. In fact, I actually have it set up now to run sync thing Just throw it in whatever command prompt you have And the interesting thing about it is that sync thing actually runs in your browser by default Which you might like you might not like it's not actually a command line interface by default But you know, it's actually pretty useful to have this So this is what it looks like now. I already have mine preconfigured But I'll tell you the basics of it now down here. I'm gonna get rid of my face for a second down here We have remote devices. This actually is an old device. It doesn't matter I could probably actually delete it But this is my phone right here my LG phone or something And of course you can see it's not connected now to add different devices Sometimes sync thing can automatically detect devices on the local Network, but the typical way to do it is go to the actions tab click show ID And you have this this is the ID for this particular computer So if I give this to my phone and I add this device on my phone If I go down to this and say add remote device and I copy and paste that device ID in there I can add any device and once you add a device on another device It's sort of a reciprocal or reciprocal adding because all devices Automatically sort of add each other So anyway, that's really all you have to do to set it up set up remote devices And you'll see over here that I have folders now all of these folders are the local folders that exist on my computer That are syncing with other devices now the relevant one here is actually phone So you'll see if I pull up My directory structure here. I actually have this folder phone And this is really the entire SD card or I might I might be more than that of my my phone my Android device right here So the nice thing is, you know, I basically have the entire thing if I need to do something If I need to get a file or if I need to do some kind of file operation that I'd like to have a computer for I can actually just do it right here and syncing will automatically sync it up with my phone So anyway, how you of course do this is if you check you can of course add folders. Actually, let's add a folder as an example So let's say I want to add a documents folder The folder path is going to be you know my actual documents folder and you can select What of the which device is you want to share it with and then you just click save and that's going to be fine Now, of course It's actually not transferring files yet. Just because my phone is currently disconnected But it scans through them make sure is every sure everything's okay See there's some error in one particular file. It's not really important for us at least, you know for our example here But it takes a little bit of time to scan all the files depending on how big they are But we don't have to worry about documents now once everything is in place Once all the files have been scanned. I'm actually going to log on to the Wi-Fi on my phone and Autumn what automatically happens if you you know look at this folder phone here And if you look at the remote device in a second, it is going to pop up Give it a second. It might actually be a sec. Yeah Sorry, my phone's a little the local internet's a little slow But what you're going to see is that this is going to be marked as connected And oh, yeah, you see now it's going so it is now transferring files from the my LG device my phone To this actual folder here and there are two items actually the reason the things I'm transferring is a video I just recorded on my phone So that's all that that's doing And that will be done. I might want to pause the video until this is done. So I'm gonna I'm gonna do that All right, it looks like everything's done actually I removed the documents folder because it was taking too long But all the phone folder is now synced. It was actually a little more than two files I forgot I had some other new stuff, but yeah, sometimes all of the files will be staggered And I will say if you want one of the other things you can do is go down to the edit Option here and you have some more advanced things you can do like for example By default it's just going to choose what files to sync in a random order But one of the nice things is that you can if you want only small files first There's a reason you might you know need that You can set that setting or largest ones first or sort them by what's newest or oldest or stuff like that So you have a bunch of different options. I I don't have anything special set here But that's something you might want to look into which is pretty nice No, oops do not remove that, please. Oh, yeah, there it is. It's behind my head. That's the option. I want Yeah, so I should say there are other settings that you can set Of course, I have a different gooey. I use the darker gooey and stuff like that Just be sure to explore it But ultimately this is all you really need to know to use the web interface now if I go to my phone folder I think it's in the DC. I am yeah down here and you will see that I have some videos down here that I actually just recorded So that yeah, so that's what I needed So that's about it. That's all for the main interface I will say you can look at the manual for sync thing and there are like again It's primary interface is through the browser, but you do have some options for manipulating it by command line if you need to You know one thing that I occasionally Need is to get my device ID. So oh, well actually it's right in front of you anyway So device ID just prints out your device ID and I might need to you know Use our sync to put it on some other server or something like that to use it But there are a couple other options here The one the one thing I don't like about sync thing is I like it to have a more cohesive command line interface But you know, especially if you're a newer user, you know What it has is fine and even you know, this is one of the the GUI programs that I don't mind using at all One last note. I don't think I said this before Notice the address that it's projecting on so it's gonna be you know To a hundred twenty seven point zero point zero point one, you know your local host or whatever And then the port that it uses is eighty three eighty four and that's all I think you can change that But that's what sync thing is going to use by default So if you tell sync thing not to pop up automatically not to pop up a browser automatically which you can set in the settings You'll have to put that you'll just have to remember this port or look it up by command line or something like that But that's the one it uses So anyway, that's about it. I hope this is helpful. This is something. This is a tool that it's really nice using Just because it can save you a lot of effort, especially I mean the main reason I use it nowadays is just for my phone. Sometimes I keep computers in sync I'm not using another computer right now, but it is a very helpful tool just because you know, it very When you use something like our sink sometimes there's a problem or which is a great command I actually I don't think I've done a video on that Maybe I should do one But one of the things that our sink I don't feel does as well as sync thing is Integrate like if you are making changes on two different devices Sync thing will be able to you know sort of sort through the changes and stuff like that and make it You know nice and easy for you But anyway that that's about it. So I hope you guys learned something and I'll see you next time