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Just had NextCloud denying my credentials (not for the first time). I know they weren't wrong because I'm using a password manager. Logs didn't say much. Was about to reinstall (again, not the first time nextcloud went bonkers on me) before I tried a docker compose down && docker compose up. Lo and behold after a restart the credentials worked again.

This stuff is just way too flaky for something so important.

Is OwnCloud good again? My main usecase is saving photos but I don't want them locked away in a database so SeaFile is out.

Edit: I'm going to take the time to reply to you all, bit busy with work and family suddenly. But a little update - I've quickly setup Immich and fired up the CLI to import my library. AFAIK the files are still stored on disk somewhere but metadata is in a database. I didn't realize this before, knowing that I think my mind is made up and Immich is the best solution. Thanks everyone!

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[-] clegko@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

My main usecase is saving photos but I don’t want them locked away in a database so SeaFile is out.

[-] leraje@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Shit. Missed that, sorry.

[-] midas@ymmel.nl 1 points 11 months ago

No problem! It's good software but I've honestly been burned by applications that only keep this kinda stuff in databases. If you do daily backups/exports it's probably OK but I don't trust myself not to fuck it up.

[-] stephenc@waveform.social 2 points 11 months ago

This is my least favorite part of Seafile. If there were a competitive alternative that used a flat file storage backend then I'd switch to that in a heartbeat. But alas, I still have not found one, so I will continue into my 6th year of using Seafile...

Worth noting in 6 years I haven't had any actual trouble with Seafile's storage, and the few times I've needed to I've been able to export data to a normal file system using seaf-fsck even if Seafile isn't running. I'm just not 100% comfortable with it anyway so I understand the apprehension. I'd rather use a standard filesystem and be able to use standard tooling on it.

[-] clegko@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Honestly this is why I’ve resisted going to seafile. I’ve been using owncloud for a while and it’s been solid, but it’s not my favourite thing in the world.

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