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I moved to Syncthing when they asked me to move to ext4. I'm glad I did. Now my phone and tablet are first class citizens when syncing and I can have multiple
by dietr1ch 7y ago
I moved to Syncthing when they asked me to move to ext4.
I'm glad I did. Now my phone and tablet are first class citizens
when syncing and I can have multiple roots shared between
different devices. I wish I switched earlier.
- jplayer01 7y agoSyncthing is great and has become a core part of my workflow. It's just really annoying that there's no iOS client. So I have this great sync service that only works across my Android phone, laptop and desktop, while my iPhone and iPad are stuck outside the loop. Which means I have to duplicate some of my workflow onto another service.
- mickael-kerjean 7y agoSyncthing is only for the sync component of Dropbox. If you have an always on node for syncthing and miss the web UI component of Dropbox along with the shared links and full text search, I've built Filestash: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
- veidr 7y agoHey, awesome, dude! Been looking for something just like this, and will definitely try it. The only thing that bugs me about my Syncthing setup is that it's annoying to find a file in one of my sync'd folders from my phone (which is iOS, so no Syncthing client). I don't do that much, but every once in a while you really want to — and in modern times, we mainly want to find files via searching for file content. This looks great, and I will definitely try it tonight!
- _fzslm 7y agothis is great! installing tonight
- jazoom 7y agoI'm trying to understand what this is. So it's not storing any data? It is a web app that is capable of displaying data/files on other servers via the many listed protocols?
- opencl 7y agoSyncthing isn't on the list of supported file providers, am I missing something here?
- mickael-kerjean 7y agosyncthing assume a filesystem, filestash connect to that filesystem with a Dropbox like interface. In its simplest scenario you probably want to connect to your syncthing instance via SFTP as it comes builtin with every server with the SSH package (deeper integration is in the roadmap)
- Avamander 7y agoSyncthing doesn't do symlink following at all which is really god damn annoying and stupid.
- netmare 7y agoIt also doesn't preserve creation time, which is really inconvenient for us Windows folks. I think that's optional metadata in POSIX, so Go doesn't support it and the devs are reluctant to use platform-specific code to implement it. I recently switched from Dropbox and wanted to clean up a folder of some old one-off scripts in groups of year-created. I had to pack them in 7z archives and sync those in order to have the scripts available in multiple machines as I wanted them. It's disappointing when a piece of software is almost perfect, except from that one little thing you need and completely ruins your workflow. I'd love to contribute to Syncthing, but I'm tired of learning new languages, frameworks and paradigms for such trivial (IMHO) changes. I never thought I'd be missing the elegance and simplicity of plain old C.
- GordonS 7y agoI moved away from Dropbox years ago, after it pissed me off on Windows (basically, the Windows client was ludicrously inefficient, and there were constant sync conflicts). I switched to Seafile, backed by Azure blob storage - so much better than Dropbox. The Windows client barely uses any CPU, sync conflicts only occur when I'd expect them to, and of course you can sync files regardless of whether they are in a fixed "Dropbox" folder. I have Seafile and Minio running in containers, so it was super-easy to setup, and is a doddle to upgrade too. Haven't looked back!
- i386 7y agoIsn’t upgrading to ext4 trivial?