Comment on 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

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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?

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    • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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    • FrostKing@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

      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

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• atmur@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Cupcake1972@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pydio Cells/Seafile?

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      • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll look at those ASAP, super hopeful

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• flatpandisk@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Came to same conclusion too

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• Discover5164@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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