I recently noticed that my nextcloud instance was missing photos. I have the android app set to automatically upload my photos. When I need to clear up space on my phone, I make a separate backup (because I’m a paranoid SOB and hard drives are relatively cheap). I noticed that nextcloud auto upload missed about 10% of the photos. I’m not going to bash the nextcloud devs, as I recognize that I am using a free product and am owed nothing, but I’m making this post so others are aware of this risk. Apparently I’m not alone https://help.nextcloud.com/t/android-client-does-not-auto-upload-all-images/216849/14

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    I’ve been using Syncthing for years and it’s been almost flawless with only rare file sync errors that are clearly shown in the UI. Was going to switch to Nextcloud for everything. Looks like I’ll be sticking with Syncthing for the foreseeable future.

    Thanks for posting this.

    • brb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Syncthing for android is a mess. I need to redo a folder or two every couple weeks because of some unresolvable sync errors or ghost files…

      • vas@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        That’s bizarre. Did you try clearing up the hidden folders .stfolder and .stversions and starting from scratch? I’m not doubting that you experience what you experience, I just never had it and I’m curious how you can even get to such a state. Using “syncthing fork” from F-Droid and Syncthing-v2.0.12 on desktop.

        • brb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          That is what I usually end up having to do. The worst problem I’ve had so far was one directory endlessly reappearing even after deleting it from all devices manually. I looked into it and found out it was because android syncthing can’t handle some characters in the directory names, but of course it doesn’t tell you this. Just renaming the directory duplicated the data with the old name, so I had to setup everything from scratch like you said.