WormHole: great tool to easily transfer files via LAN

@all

New update is online!
There are progress bars.
There is working 'Use last destination'. Together with the 'Accept all' settings, no more requester on the target side only for overwriting.

Please try and tell me how it works for you.

Unfortunately the OSX/Linux archives still as is. There is still no time to make them properly.




Downloads here.

@lazi

Thank you for the update (v0.2), which I just tried.
File transfer between PC (Win11) and AmigaOne X5000

- PC v0.2 -> X5000 v0.2 works smoothly and quickly.

- X5000 v0.2 -> PC v0.2 slow copying (approx. 5000 kb/s), aborts the copying process for files larger than approx. 300 MB.

- X5000 v0.1 -> PC v0.2 fast copying (over 17000 kb/s), test file of 1.46 GB was copied without problems.

I'll stick with WormHole v0.1 OS4 for now, even though there's no progress bar. However, I can see in the network dock that data is being copied :)
I hope this feedback helps you a little for the next update :)
Thank you for your work

@McFly

Thanks for testing it! Changed back the speed related thing and uploaded it as 0.3.

downloads

@lazi

Thanks for the new version and yes it is cool You did a great job with the status display under AmigaOs4.1 it looks great.

Under MacOs I still use version 0.1 and under AmigaOs4.1 version 0.2. There were no problems with the file transfer, currently I move a lot of large files (1-2GB) via WormHole and everything was really fast and was transferred completely.

@lazi
many thanks for the v0.3 (OS4)
Now the copying to the PC is much faster and there was no interruption with files larger than 1GB
top job :)

OSX64 native version is fixed, tested on a Mac. Please try it if you interested. It should be executable now.

A little back story of WormHole, to give some light for what and why.

"Computing is starting with network" said one of my teacher back then. As an A500 user I hardly shared his statement at that time
He was quite right. In my defence, it was hard to see before the first public internet service.
Time has passed, so around me there is a LAN now with more and more Amigas are connected to it.

The main goal behind WormHole was to have something to quickly share files between my Amigas.
The features that all other solutions lacked:
- configless
- keep all the Amiga file attributes
- handle icons

That led me to bother with this.

And it worked for my Miggys. And even more when put WormHole to a temporary pc and drop some files to it without even log in to any network shares.
Useful to get those Amiga files which are uploaded to Amiga no-go sites.

As I am using Hollywood from ages it has had the side effect of being on many platforms.
Before it was ready, or before well-tested, I uploaded to my site to be handy. It waited there to reach a quality that might be worth sharing with others. This may never have happened.

At last, I am really glad that McFly found it and he, TJ and Maijestro took the time to make some nice video testing it. This kind interest encourages me to make it better.

Initially the speed was only a secondary option. But nobody seems to pay attention to TJ's warning about how dangerous a wormhole can be, just by dumping gigabytes large of files down it.
I checked it and found a design flaw that makes it slow with larger files.
The transfer is divided into small data packets with a header. Each packet is transmitted with an openconnection, closeconnection frame. I need to do some tweaking to avoid unnecessary open/close connections.

A nice feature should be the clipboard sharing which is suggested by PJS I think. Another one I'm thinking of is printing pdf files on a pc or mac thrown in from an Amiga.

My idea is that holding the mouse button over the window will bring up a menu to select the WormHole function. File transfer/Print/Display image/etc. Double click to share clipboard.

What do you think?

@lazi

WormHole 0.3 Native Osx_x64 version tested and runs without problems. It behaves the same as under AmigaOs4.1 including progress animation at startup. Nice

Thank you for briefly explaining how you came to develop WormHole and yes I agree that today you can't do without network transfers anymore and especially when there are several computers in the network.

Since I have my X5000 I was always looking for a fast solution which was not available, smb2fs was fine for me until I also came across WormHole, the speed of the transfer is simply impressive.

What I personally would like to see in future versions of WormHole:

- a fix function under MacOs so that WormHole remembers its position.

- The progress display is really great, but maybe we can add a % display 0-100 that would be really cool.

- under MacOs the icon of WormHole could be a bit bigger maybe you could add a 150% display or ?

- cool would be under Macos if Wormhole is started automatically....currently my Mac serves as a network drive for my X5000 and AmigaOs4.1

- maybe also an automated update function which searches for networks, often I have to start WormHole on both systems, but additionally still assign the computer to be used with active WormHole

Otherwise you still have a few ideas in mind.

Quote:

I'm not sure if I've understood it correctly or if we need it. For printing we already have AirPrint which is also in development and yes it is great.

Thanks again for this great tool WormHole

Thought I would try the MorphOS version today.

Would not launch and get this error.

Screen doesn't support alpha transparent windows!
File: Wormhole.hws (current line : 1353 - In Function: Open Display)

Running MorphOS 3.19 on an AmigaOne X5K

As a side note, I tried the newest Mac OS version as well, and still have issues with any files of size. Just seems to lock things up to a crawl.

I have Candi in AmigaOS running and when a transfer of size starts, the whole Candi desktop becomes a crawl and halts and stops in any animations.

Just a note is all.

TJ

@AmigaSociety

Try to change the Ambient display settings.

MorphOS Preferences / Screens / Edit Screen / Enhanced Display

Tick that item and ok, use/save...

Let me know if it helps.

@lazi

Thanks

I never unchecked those boxes and confirmed mine had the Enhanced checked and it is working today and testing now.

Maybe when I tested it was unchecked but today it works so maybe it was.

Will report more later.

Small files went zippy quick in transfer. Large files like a 600MB is taking a very long time but slowly workings its way over.

Mac Pro 2019 and AmigaOne X5K running MorphOS 3.19 and the recent Wormhole.

I would guess this 600MB has taken 10 minutes already and is only at 350mb transferred so far. I am transferring to RAM disk on the X5K.

If a speedup is able to be done, this Wormhole application can be really nice.

Thanks for the hard work.

TJ

@lazi

WormHole for MorphOS...

... What Is It?

an EASY way to transfer files on your local network between MANY platforms!

MacOS - AmigaOS - MorphOS - AROS - Windows - Android

TJ