NextCloud integrates into iOS's Files app pretty tightly as a 'storage provider' or whatever Apple calls it. Okay, I guess I should qualify that and say that there's no iOS client that is actually practical to use. It's okay to not like _parts_ of something. Are you familiar with socializing? It's okay to not like something. > If one is not a user, and considers something else to be better, why voice such a strong opinion?īecause people make conversation and have opinions. What's the point that any of us are here talking about anything? > And even if you don't know how to code, suggestions and discussions are better had in an issue tracker, right? Otherwise, what's the point? I happen to agree with those criticisms, even though I generally think Syncthing is a great piece of software. It was constructive criticism, because it presented a specific set of things that could be improved upon. It is a critique of some specific issues. I don't see the reply as needless complaining. Okay, so that was how you were raised and how you operate. > I was raised not to needlessly complain about free things, without considering to take things into my own hands. Sometimes, you can recognize that something is bad without knowing the best way to fix it. > Maybe you took my question the wrong way, but (maybe just as much misguided) I took the "opinion"/"discussion" not as opinion, but for the lack of any helpful suggestion as merely a rant. One of those is making conversation, the other is entitlement. There is a massive difference between voicing your opinion about something in a public discussion forum and hounding the developers of a project because they don't fix bugs or implement new features on your say-so. > I consider the endless ranting by entitled FOSS users an obnoxious trend. One warning: Sycnthing really does not like it when you delete the dotfile folder inside the shared folder(s). Had to switch to Nextcloud, which so far has been working OK, but the number of people that have problems with the iOS client is quite high (problems such as syncs being so slow it takes days to sync a camera roll), and it's generally sluggish and doesn't work in the background (yes, I know, Apple's fault.) However, Nextcloud does allow me to sync contacts and calendars (I think. The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client. Don't want your syncthing clients to try and do NAT transversal / discovery outside whatever network it's on? No problem. Don't want the sync client to run on any network other than your home network? Done. Lots of controls, especially in the forked android client. Worked flawlessly for all of them.ĭitto for a folder shared between my MacOS laptop and Windows desktop. I also used it to sync my password database, and a cross-platform notebook app's database. I'd take a photo with my phone and almost before I could open the shortcut on the desktop, boom, the photo was there, since the android client detects changes in the filesystem. I preferred setting the ignore file to exclude android's thumbnails directory, but otherwise it worked great. I used to use it on Android to keep my 'camera roll' synced to my desktop. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. I assume since the update fails, the armhf is unable to fully install.Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. I tried verifying with dpkg -print-architecture and it returns amd64. However, I don't think the armhf architecture installed correctly because it reflects that in the apt-get update results. It seems I can indeed install resilio-sync with, sudo apt-get install resilio-sync They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and added the following at the bottom of the file: deb resilio-sync non-freeĮrr:31 xenial-security/main armhf PackagesĮrr:22 xenial-updates/main armhf PackagesĮrr:48 xenial-backports/main armhf PackagesĮ: Some index files failed to download. I copied and pasted the selection box with the following commands, echo "deb resilio-sync non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt//resilio-sync.list So, I followed the following instructions located here. Previously, this was bittorrent sync or btsync, but it seems to be now called resilio-sync. This way, I won't have to pay an annual premium for a sizable capacity for my music and photos. I decided that I wanted to discontinue relying on cloud drives and start using a torrent sync among multiple local hard drives. I have a 64-bit desktop PC running Ubuntu 16.04.
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