I have to computers that are both running Fedora 40 KDE. Both are connected to the same Wifi network.
I want to use KDE Connect to move files between the computers without having to use a USB drive every time.
I have KDE Connect running on both computers and got them both connected. Sending a ping in KDE Connect from either to the other works fine.
But the file transfer function doesn’t seem to be working. According to the documentation, the other computer should appear in Dolphin as a connected device. It did so right after I set up KDE Connect, but then couldn’t establish a connection. I rebooted both computers, and now they no longer appear as devices in Dolphin. (Ping test still works fine.)
Clicking on the KDE Connect icon in the system tray, clicking on the three bars, and selecting “Share file” does open the “Please choose a file” dialog, and selecting one and confirming does automatically write the file in the Downloads directory on the other computer. This seems to work as intended, but only works to transfer single files, not directories. Which makes it an unusable method for transferring more than a few files. And I would like to avoid the step of zipping and unzipping every directory to transfer it.
If I could make specific directories visible for the other computer in Dolphin, I could just copy the content and paste it on the computer that is receiving. That would be the optimal approach, and is supposed to be a feature of KDE Connect. But the documentation says nothing on how to enable it if it isn’t working already.
How do I turn this on?