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I'll be the contrary one: I tried a lot of things and ended up, eventually, going back to Nextclolud, simply because it's extendable and can add more shit to do things as you need it.
File sync and images may be all you need now, but let's say in the future you want to dump Google Docs, or add calendar and contact syncing, or notes, or to do lists, or hosting your own bookmark sync app, or integrating webmail, or....
It's got a lot of flaws, to be sure, but the ability to make it essentially do every task you might want cloud syncing with to at least a level of 'good enough', has pretty much kept me on it.
You are probably right... I did spend two hours today trying to get it running in my current docker environment and couldn't get it running... That's when I decided to look for somethinfg else...
What part were you getting hung up on?
Happy to share the docker-compose.yml I'm using for my setup. It includes OnlyOffice so that I can edit files internally, Google Dcos style. You can skip that section and remove the oonet network definition if you don't need/want it. You'll want to change the volume mount paths (or define volumes if you'd rather not use bind mounts) and change the 'supersecretpasswordhere' to something actually uh, secure.
Anyway, file is at https://thecloud.home.uncomfortable.business/s/32HoxHajW33PRbf
Thank you very much! But seems like the file is not accessable
Ugh, not the best marketing for Nextcloud to have a public share not work, lol. It seems like 25% of people just can't see them but they work for everyone else so who knows.
Anyway, have a pastebin instead: https://pastebin.com/zPyvgxYX
Nextcloud can't do two-way sync on Android. At all. That's like core functionality for the product IMHO and there's a feature request open I think. When I found that out, I basically spit out my coffee. It's fine if you just want to upload photos you take, that kinda works (but my god is it fragile).
Nextcloud is pretty good at quite a few things, including extensibility, but having some omissions in functionality that boggle the mind.
Not saying you're wrong, but what doesn't work right? I haven't noticed any behavior that seems wrong to me. Usually interact with nextcloud via the nextcloud section that gets added by the client in the file picker/file manager on the OnePlus Nord I'm using.
The native Android client just can't do two way sync. Just put a text file or something into any folder (from the web or desktop). Now sync that folder to Android. Now edit it on the web/desktop, and look for the changes on Android (without actively telling it to "sync"). Then change the file on Android, these 2nd changes are never sent back to the server unless you explicitly tell it to "sync" again, manually. That's what I mean with 2 way sync.
There are quite a few files where you just need that to work to use them properly, like the database of a password manager as a prime example. Mine can talk to Nextcloud natively, so I don't need the client for that, but I was incredibly close to just switching to syncthing, if I didn't have active users that use the web office integration of Nextcloud.