• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    I haven’t got a fucking clue how to do it with phones.

    In a certain way, probably me neither. I use ls, df, md5sum, cp, mv, rsync, tar, gzip, gpg, vim, touch and mkdir in Termux (terminal emulator for Android). For example, say I am replacing MP3 for FLAC. I really like to keep the timestamps of when I added the specific song, but I can’t find any better way than touch -r oldfile.mp3 newfile.flac

    But I also use FX File explorer for certain tasks, as it thankfully keeps timestamps. I absolutely hate how moving photos in Google Photos updates the modified timestamp to the date of when the file was moved. Why?
    And I also have an ancient version of ES File explorer, version 4.0.2.3. Before it enshittified.

    But I am not sure whatever that is installable from within the device, or it’s old enough to require adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block app.apk like some other old apps I use.

    Anyway, I have no idea what’s going on with iPhones and files, or whether that’s a non-existent concept there.