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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You can access all Nextcloud files over WebDAV. That is natively supported by many file browsers, including explorer.exe on Windows.

And you can choose in the Linux client what folders to sync.

What the Linux client (in contrast to the Windows client) does not support is having virtual files in a folder and only downloading files on demand.

Apart from that, have you looked at Opencloud?

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Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
On Windows, Nextcloud seems to tap into some Windows function to provide files on demand. Is there any Linux cloud file service that can do it?

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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Nextcloud implements webdav, which you can use rclone to mount as a remote
  
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  - Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    In my experience it’s not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it’s fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.
    
    The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.
    
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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You could probably do this with FUSE. Guess nobody cared to make that yet.
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It exists and I’ve tried it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2
    
    Thing is, when an app thinks a directory is on a local disk, it does things which do not scale well over a network. e.g. reading every file in the directory to make thumbnails.
    
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  - Kynn@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Seafile has fuse for accessing it as a folder.
    
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naate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

What the Linux client (in contrast to the Windows client) does not support is having virtual files in a folder and only downloading files on demand.

This is specifically what I want.

And…somehow I missed opencloud in all of my searching? I think I may have mentally combined it with OwnCloud/OCIS. It looks promising. Diving into the docs, now.

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Opencloud is a fork of the new Owncloud, I think. Similar to how Nextcloud was forked from the old Owncloud.
  
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