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Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. Tha

Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. That has been fine for a few months now. But like come on, I'm actually paying for this. Yes it's just a part of the Office 365 plan, but it _is_ a part of it. Actually was considering moving to self-hosting just last week. Any recommendations for a self-hosted Dropbox/OneDrive alternative besides NextCloud?

Gibbon1 2y ago
I have a product idea that I troll my IT friends with. A set of four thumb drives that sync to each other over their own WiFi network. The ratio of works super duper to terrifies the IT staff is off the charts.
- Neywiny 2y ago
  Well that wouldn't work because Wi-Fi is the wrong choice. Buuuuuuuut if you gave them cellular data plans? Now you're onto something. The Boron by particle comes to mind as a low cost dev option. The USB should let you talk to a computer as a flash drive, you can throw an SD card on/external to it for storage, and use the modem to sync to the others. As long as they're all on battery, should be fine.
  - Spooky23 2y ago
    Why? Generate some sort of peer to peer wlan, join up and sync away.
    - Neywiny 2y ago
      Because if you're within Wi-Fi range of each other, just use Wi-Fi to sync. The product would fail to sell
genewitch 2y ago
That depends, why "besides NextCloud"? Syncthing always gets a lot of traction here. But what do you actually need to share? Folders? Or links to content? PDF? Archives? Matrix homeservers and clients support most mime types in chat, including zip, so you can send anything and have it searchable in the chat as long as you maintain the matrix server. Misskey has a "drive" feature, where all media you share goes, but you can also upload directly to it and link directly to media in the misskey drive. Pastebins work, too. My github^ has the instructions on how to set up the same thing I run, an Up1 pastebin. I'm sure there's better. But nextcloud has first class mobile clients, understands folders and mime types, can be synced over WebDAV, cifs, http, etc. So... Up to you? ^ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genewitch/opensource/refs/heads/master/howto-pastebin.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genewitch/opensource/refs/...
- hedora 2y ago
  I’ve only ever had corruption problems with nextcloud and syncthing. (And also with onedrive) Do any of the options you listed work reliably? Litmus test: sync a few million files totaling a few terabytes, including build output directories. Build a few projects on machine A a few times and run the unit tests (most services desync at this point). Perform a full sync of A and then machine B. Build on B. Repeat. Also, on both machines add non-overlapping files (like pictures, screenshots) to the same directory at the same time.
  - genewitch 2y ago
    Yeah i use a synology for that. my public nextcloud has like 250GB of storage, which is plenty for 4 people to use it for photo backups and whatever else. If i need access to some random file on my network, i use tailscale - there are other options. i could buy/build an ipv6 router and use prefix delegation to get a public ipv6 on my synology. You're looking for storage. Not sync. the clue was "terabytes". Wanna know where i draw the line? you can't sync terabytes to a phone. I'm not trying to sound like a jerk. All of the things we mentioned are software based airquote "storage", dropbox, syncthing, etc. your original thing was "shared a folder with SO" which is why i asked what the folder was, mostly. Matrix will gag encrypting a TB of data. Misskey's drive defaults to like a gig per user. Get a NAS, tailscale (or whatever, set up your own VPN with a fortigate or something), and now you rely on no-one but your ISP(s). Proof that this works, just fine: https://imgur.com/a/q9hLDeH https://imgur.com/a/q9hLDeH note: I use both nextcloud (with a real domain name and certs and everything!) which is a VM on one of our machines in a DC. the synology is at my house. The synology backs up to a dedicated machine (it's in an air conditioned outbuilding with dedicated fiber pulls) with it's own redundant storage array, but that machine is "asleep" 99.9% of the time unless i'm pushing backups. My synology is not publicly accessible. It has ~30TB of storage, iirc. note2: that youtube-rips is 90% <=480p, too!

Gibbon1 2y ago

I have a product idea that I troll my IT friends with. A set of four thumb drives that sync to each other over their own WiFi network. The ratio of works super duper to terrifies the IT staff is off the charts.

Neywiny 2y ago
Well that wouldn't work because Wi-Fi is the wrong choice. Buuuuuuuut if you gave them cellular data plans? Now you're onto something. The Boron by particle comes to mind as a low cost dev option. The USB should let you talk to a computer as a flash drive, you can throw an SD card on/external to it for storage, and use the modem to sync to the others. As long as they're all on battery, should be fine.
- Spooky23 2y ago
  Why? Generate some sort of peer to peer wlan, join up and sync away.
  - Neywiny 2y ago
    Because if you're within Wi-Fi range of each other, just use Wi-Fi to sync. The product would fail to sell

genewitch 2y ago

That depends, why "besides NextCloud"? Syncthing always gets a lot of traction here. But what do you actually need to share? Folders? Or links to content? PDF? Archives? Matrix homeservers and clients support most mime types in chat, including zip, so you can send anything and have it searchable in the chat as long as you maintain the matrix server. Misskey has a "drive" feature, where all media you share goes, but you can also upload directly to it and link directly to media in the misskey drive. Pastebins work, too. My github^ has the instructions on how to set up the same thing I run, an Up1 pastebin. I'm sure there's better. But nextcloud has first class mobile clients, understands folders and mime types, can be synced over WebDAV, cifs, http, etc. So... Up to you? ^ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genewitch/opensource/refs/heads/master/howto-pastebin.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genewitch/opensource/refs/...

hedora 2y ago
I’ve only ever had corruption problems with nextcloud and syncthing. (And also with onedrive) Do any of the options you listed work reliably? Litmus test: sync a few million files totaling a few terabytes, including build output directories. Build a few projects on machine A a few times and run the unit tests (most services desync at this point). Perform a full sync of A and then machine B. Build on B. Repeat. Also, on both machines add non-overlapping files (like pictures, screenshots) to the same directory at the same time.
- genewitch 2y ago
  Yeah i use a synology for that. my public nextcloud has like 250GB of storage, which is plenty for 4 people to use it for photo backups and whatever else. If i need access to some random file on my network, i use tailscale - there are other options. i could buy/build an ipv6 router and use prefix delegation to get a public ipv6 on my synology. You're looking for storage. Not sync. the clue was "terabytes". Wanna know where i draw the line? you can't sync terabytes to a phone. I'm not trying to sound like a jerk. All of the things we mentioned are software based airquote "storage", dropbox, syncthing, etc. your original thing was "shared a folder with SO" which is why i asked what the folder was, mostly. Matrix will gag encrypting a TB of data. Misskey's drive defaults to like a gig per user. Get a NAS, tailscale (or whatever, set up your own VPN with a fortigate or something), and now you rely on no-one but your ISP(s). Proof that this works, just fine: https://imgur.com/a/q9hLDeH https://imgur.com/a/q9hLDeH note: I use both nextcloud (with a real domain name and certs and everything!) which is a VM on one of our machines in a DC. the synology is at my house. The synology backs up to a dedicated machine (it's in an air conditioned outbuilding with dedicated fiber pulls) with it's own redundant storage array, but that machine is "asleep" 99.9% of the time unless i'm pushing backups. My synology is not publicly accessible. It has ~30TB of storage, iirc. note2: that youtube-rips is 90% <=480p, too!