angelfish

Hey thanks for the input! Although a bit disappointing to hear your frustrations with nextcloud.

So right now I’m not even trying to setup the “live collaboration” features (although that ultimately was a feature I’m interested in). I guess I’m just testing how well the file syncing works before I commit to moving all my stuff off google drive. Right now I’m just doing tests, I create a .xlsx file from my phone collabora/nextcloud app, make a few edits and save… refresh… wait 10 to 15 minutes, then I try opening the newly saved .xlsx file on my nextcloud desktop file synced folder (after hitting the sync button) with say libre or collabora, and its hit or miss if the file I open is the same as the last edit from my phone. Right now its definitely not at the point where I would trust a large/important file that I frequently collaborate between my phone and desktop. However, the notes, like markdown files or just pdfs are syncing flawlessly between my client devices. So it seams like its got something to do with the office files.

Anyways, I guess I’m just a bit disappointed in the reliability of the syncing with office files and am just curious if anyone else has a nextcloud setup where this all actually works… Also, maybe my expectations are too high coming from my google drive desktop sync which performs very well. Or maybe suggestions to another application that is more reliable and maybe less features and overhead of nextcloud.