WormHole: great tool to easily transfer files via LAN

@lazi

I hope I didn't cause you too much stress with my video. But the interest in WormHole shows that this program is very popular.
I also hope that this will generate some donations for your work.
WormHole works perfectly for my computers, A1200, X5000, Win11PC :)
Thank you again for this great tool

@Maijestro

Oh thank you!
TJ

@lazi

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I have recorded how WormHole works for me on my Mac, although I suspect they will continue to ignore me

In the first video, you can see WormHole's behavior after I run “chmod +x” WormHole_OSX/WormHole.app/Contents/MacOS/WormHole. When I launch WormHole here, it shows me the icon and I don't have to launch it directly from the HollyWood player.

I tested it with a 1Gb file that I transferred from my Mac to my X5000, you can see it in the second video...also I posted WormHole on my YouTube channel to show people how fast the file transfer is. For me personally, it's currently the fastest network transfer available to us.

WormHole under MacOs:



Direct transfer of files, tested with a file over 1Gb in size

@Maijestro

Gonna watch now.

My 1st test previously using the Hollywood Applet on my Mac chocked on a 1.6gb file so I killed it.

I will make sure to download the new version you chmoded and will see what happens with it.

btw, who is it ignoring you?

TJ

@Maijestro

Enjoyed your videos.
Thanks for sharing.
TJ

I tried @Maijestro and it does run, nice.

My issue here is slowness and integrity of the download.

I sent a 300MB .MP4 from my X5K to the Mac Pro, it did eventually arrive. Kind of slow but made it and it played fine. The full size of the file was there as well.

On the return trip, it took 3 to 4x as long as the whole file did not arrive even though it appears in the directory I asked it to save in.

The original file was about 350mb and the return was only 305mb and won't play in Emotion.

The original mp4 played fine but yeh, something seems to truncate large files for me and they don't all come over same size or useable.

Just my 3 cents so far.

But small files 2 to 5mb, fine. Larger not so much, for me.

TJ

@Maijestro

can you tell me the names of the apps you had in your top status bar that showed the speed of your network transfer.

I want to install that.

Thanks

TJ

@AmigaSociety

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You can find the AmiDock addons among others in zTools, it is a small tool collection with installer. Search for it in the AmiStore and you will find it quickly.

About WormHole, I'm not sure why the transfers are slow for you, for me it's exactly the same, it's really very fast, faster than smbfs and for large files it's perfect for me. For smaller files I will continue to use smbfs.

Maybe I am missing it but is there some progress meter inside or that works with WormHole that shows how much transfer remains for the larger files?

TJ

@Maijestro

Ah funny, I own zTools. I need to go grab that again. I did an reinstall a number of years ago and forgot I owned it. Hopefully Amistore remembers. haha

TJ

Hi, guys. I decided to join in the fun today and have been testing Wormhole here between an X1000 and a Mac Pro 2019. Smaller files in both directions arrive quickly and intact, including pictures and PDFs and smaller videos. The videos that have worked for me are in the 200MB range. Longer videos, a gigabyte or more that I have tried, have arrived incomplete or corrupted it seems.

Whatever text is inside the Wormhole GUI is so tiny that it is difficult to read, and I do not see any progress indicator.

But you're off to a great start, and I certainly understand you did not intend for this to be released yet. It is exciting to see beginnings of a very useful utility and to be able to offer feedback and encouragement.

@lazi

Hi Lazi!

THANKS for your work on this utility! It's got great
potential!

I tested it on my X5K and 460 and with a bunch of relatively
small transfers and a couple ~75MB files. Everything worked
fine, but I never saw any progress indicators.

I've also got another SAM that's downstairs - obviously not in
convenient reach for accepting file transfers. I was hoping
"Always Accept" would let me set distant machines to just
receive files. But even with "Always Accept", Wormhole still
brings up a file requester each time. Could there be some
"auto" setting?

Curiously, since with a file requester you can cancel transfers,
doesn't it make the preceding "Accept?" requester kind of
redundant? ;D

I was also wondering about "Keep last destination" - is that so
you can set the default download location? If so, it appears
to not being saved with settings.

I hope I can offer several suggestions for your consideration:

1) Provide a setting where you can name your machine. Both my
Amigas just appear as the name of their net interface ("ether").
...or Wormhole could use the "hostname" set in Roadshow?

2) Could there be a way to send the contents of the clipboard
to the remote wormhole's clipboard? Maybe just click in the
center of the wormhole? Even just ASCII text would be great.

3) Even if you implement the progress "ring", could you add an
option for showing an AmigaOS notification at completion of a
transfer?

I look forward to seeing linux x86 and mac PPC builds so I can
try Wormhole with my work machines (where I really need the
ability to echange files).

In any case, I put it in AmiDock and look forward to new
versions!

THANKS AGAIN!

PJS

@lazi

I was excited to give WormHole a go, but alas it doesn't work for me.

When I start it on my X5000, it just blinks between red and yellow. On my Windows 10 machine, it shows green.

Edit:

Ah, the issue was my firewall on Win 10. Switching it off allowed my X5000 to connect. Now I need to figure out how to configure firewall to allow WormHole.