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Have a look at Syncthing
Syncthing doesn’t have an ‘files on demand’ feature though. The way that cloud storage providers do it is by having placeholder files which are selectively synced. Resilio Sync can do it, although it does change the file extension for the placeholder files to .rslsync temporarily.
Unfortunatly like syncthing nextcloud mac app also has the same file extension sync issue (they use .nextcloud).
Is that still the case for the Nextcloud macOS client? Because this post from the devs from a few months ago implies that the .nextcloud file extension behaviour is temporary and that they’re meant to be using Apple’s File Provider API, same way that Dropbox and OneDrive do.
https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/discussions/6267
This is how it shows up for me on Nextcloud desktop client 3.13.0
Looks like that feature is still in beta and therefore only available in the beta client. The stable release still uses the .nextcloud extension workaround.
Update the stable client does have proper virtual file sync.
Regarding the previous virtual file sync system (.nextcloud) you had to enable experimental features to get it. The latest stable just has both versions of syncing and I missed the obsious vfs sync option.
The only downside to the new system is there isn't a make file/folder available offline always option in the context menu (you can get around this by manually setting up synced folders but it is a little inconvient).
Ah! Good to know! I haven’t touched my Mac client sync settings in a while so I’ll check this out.
Update regarding virtual files has more quirks.
Also turns out the reason it was a github release was it is still in alpha 😅 .
Ah no wonder it’s experimental.
It’ll get there eventually.