Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I constantly would get files stuck in the database that I couldn’t delete. All of the forum parts would talk about going into the database to fix it, but the whole point of NextCloud for me was to completely avoid database management.
I’ve fallen back to using DUFS or copyparty for most things since I really just needed my file store to be browsable via web in some cases.
I probably would still be using NextCloud if they didn’t obfuscate the file system.
ikidd@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They don’t obfuscate the filesystem, it’s right there in clear folder trees under each username in the chosen data folder with all the filenames you see in the UI, you can do whatever you want with it.
I hear this bullshit constantly and I go back to check just to make sure I’m not fooling myself and there it is. Where do people get this from, do you not know how to navigate a filesystem?
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otacon239@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s been a long while since I used it and at one point I did figure out how to browse it, but I remember documentation pointing out that it’s meant to be left alone and do all your file management through NextCloud itself.
Sometimes I needed to do big file operations or drop in a chunk of data straight from the server, but it wouldn’t ingest those files unless I did a sync or upload them using the client.
Maybe things have changed, but last I used it, it was 14 services that were all sort of good when I needed the service to do one thing really well.