I think this is it but I can’t find this option in the settings.
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Dalraz@lemmy.ca 5 months agoThe nextcloud client has the option to setup the folder as a virtual folder. this wouldn’t sync the files locally but would download them on first access, kind of like how OneDrive works. Would this not work for OP or did I miss read
archer@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
archer@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
OK so I managed to enable it! :) Thanks for everyone suggestions.
If you have the same issue and find this thread later: on a regular install, open /home/yourusername/.config/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg with a text editor. On flatpak, open /home/yourusername/.var/app/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud/config/Nextcloud/nextcloud.cfg. Add the line
showExperimentalOptions=trueunder the general section. Restart Nextcloud desktop and delete the current synchronization destionation. Readd it and you’ll see the option to use virtual files. Confirm that it’s experimental and you’re done.
cron@feddit.de 5 months ago
TBH, the description in the original post is not very clear.