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Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times (lemmy.world)

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 90 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

No if I have to keep fixing it , it is not worth my time.

I installed owncloud years ago and came to the same conclusion and just got rid of it. I use syncthing nowadays though its not the same thing.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I've adapted all of my setup to syncthing, and never looked back.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Any guidance on this? I looked into Synthing at one time to backup Android phones and got overwhelmed very quickly. I'd love to use it in a similar fashion to NextCloud for syncing between various computers too.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, it works in a different way than NextCloud. You don't have a server, instead you just make a share between your computers and they are all peers.

It takes some getting used to the idea, but it's actually much simpler than NextCloud.

[–] squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

So if I wanted to sync photos from my phone to the computer, then delete the local copies on my phone to save space, that would not work?

E: But keep the copies on the computer, of course

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You would have to move them into some folder you are not syncing.

[–] rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf 1 points 7 months ago

@squidspinachfootball @marcos Syncthing syncs. It does one way syncs, but if your workflow is complex and depends on one way syncs that's probably not what you want.

Sync things between operational systems, then replicate to nonoperational systems, and backup to off site segregated systems.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It really wasn't all that complicated for me. Install the client on two devices set a share up on one device go to the other device Hit add device put the share ID in. Go back to the first devices admin and say allow the share

[–] FrostKing@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I was very intimidated as well, I'll try to simplify it, but as always check the documentation ;)

This is the process I used to sync between my Windows PC and Android phone to sync retroarch saves (works well, would recommend, Pokemon is awesome) I've never done it on a Linux, though i assume it's not too different

https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html

I downloaded the Synctrazor program so that it would run in the tray, again I'm not sure what the equivalent/if this would be necessary on Linux.

No shade to the writers, but the documentation isn't super noob friendly, as I figured out. I'd recommend trying to cut out all the fluff, and boil it down to bare essentials. Download the program (whichever one seems right for your device, there's an app for Android) and follow the process for syncing stuff (I believe I used a video guide, but it's not actually as complicated as it seems)

If you need specific help I'd be happy to answer questions, though I only understand a certain amount myself XD

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm absolutely at that point with Nextcloud. I kind of didn't want to go the syncthing route, but I'll probably give it a shot anyway since none of the NC alternatives seem any better.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried nc it for a while I would have taken me till the end of days to import all of my files.

I suspect I could keep it running by doing lockstep backups and updates. But it was just so incredibly slow.

I just want something that would give me remote access to my files with meta information about my files and a good search index.

[–] Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pydio Cells/Seafile?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I'll look at those ASAP, super hopeful

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Came to same conclusion too

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

i have been running the new owncloud (ocis) and, with some quirks and very basic functionality, it's been running for 2+ years and survived multiple updates without major complications