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Huh, I wonder what the problem was. I semi-regularly send files between my Windows laptop and my Android phone. I do recall never being able to get that functionality working properly with a Mac though.

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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.

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.

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.

Perfect irony would be if the receiving Android attempts to check the incoming file against some kind of Internet service.

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