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.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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 for rid of it. I use syncthing nowadays though its not the same thing.
atmur@lemmy.world 5 months ago
linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 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.
Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Pydio Cells/Seafile?
linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ll look at those ASAP, super hopeful
flatpandisk@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Came to same conclusion too
Discover5164@lemm.ee 5 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
marcos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yep, I’ve adapted all of my setup to syncthing, and never looked back.
0110010001100010@lemmy.world 5 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.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 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.
squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee 5 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?
linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 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 5 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