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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 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by atmur@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 91 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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 got rid of it. I use syncthing nowadays though its not the same thing.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pydio Cells/Seafile?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'll look at those ASAP, super hopeful

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Came to same conclusion too

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 1 points 11 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 -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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?

E: But keep the copies on the computer, of course

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You would have to move them into some folder you are not syncing.