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Computers as I used to love them

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Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by southerntofu »

causi wrote: post #5

Does Syncthing allow you to sync two differently-named folders as one folder while preserving the respective names? For example, your pictures folder may not be called the same thing on your phone and computer, or across Windows and Linux, or you want to sync game save files between Android and Windows.

I'm not sure it's supported in a GUI, but a simple symlink should do the trick. Say your photos folder is called Pictures on one machine, and Photos one another: just ln -s Pictures Photos (admitting you've moved all the contents of photos to Pictures and removed the Photos folder itself) and that should just work (didn't test).

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causi wrote: post #5

Does Syncthing allow you to sync two differently-named folders as one folder while preserving the respective names? For example, your pictures folder may not be called the same thing on your phone and computer, or across Windows and Linux, or you want to sync game save files between Android and Windows.

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Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by southerntofu »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #8

OneDrive is pretty good and underrated IMO

And suffers from the same underlying problem as Dropbox and iCloud: it's profit-driven proprietary software. Are you sure your interests as a user are aligned with that of Microsoft as a company? Are you confident that will not change over time?

Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by southerntofu »

gigatexal wrote: post #10

I agree that this is amazing -- the only thing is I trust and embrace lock-in with icloud because I can't be bothered to be a storage systems admin. Could it be configured to sync to blob storage on s3 since ingest is free?

I can't exactly recommend to use Amazon services, but if you're doing it anyway something like s3fs-fuse [0] should do the trick so that S3 appears as a standard filesystem to syncthing.

[0] https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by dt2m »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #8

OneDrive is pretty good and underrated IMO

Agreed. The recent Google Drive update which completely broke file metadata on Mac OS, along with it often times mounting twice, requiring a reboot to fix it, prompted me to test out all the different cloud storage solutions.

As stated in the OP Dropbox has become far too bloated, and just feels wrong. iCloud Drive only works 90% of the time, and doesn't play nice with apps that use absolute paths (even many Cocoa MacOS apps, which do this under the hood).

OneDrive is the only client that gets out of my way, just works, and even can automatically move unused files to the cloud without them disappearing from the filesystem entirely. It's crazy to think that Microsoft are making better Mac OS software than Apple.

I haven't considered going the self-hosted route yet, but Syncthing looks promising if you don't need folder sharing or robust iOS support.

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Post by mab122 »

gtsnexp wrote: post #2

Have you heard of NextCloud ( https://nextcloud.com/ ) ?

That requires you to have always on, central server running and stroing things. Devices running syncthing are run as equals. (or they can be configured not to be)

One cool feature is also encrypted syncing where some nodes dont even have the key (ie VPS syncs but doesnt know what it syncs, and only your devices have the key)

Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by southerntofu »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #7

I disagree about the Dropbox folder criticism. It's actually simplifies things a lot: whatever you put there is synced. Very straightforward. You won't break anything. Syncthing, on the other hand, is far too geeky and easy to ruin things if you somehow sync a rapidly updated folder. I've moved a few people to Syncthing and in the end they all were not very happy with it for one reason or another. It also isn't as cl…

> ruin things if you somehow sync a rapidly updated folder (...) It also isn't as clear on the sync state of a file.

Do you have a link/resource elaborating on these questions?

Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by datavirtue »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #8

OneDrive is pretty good and underrated IMO

Agreed. I use it as part of my personal Office 365 Enterprise account and it has been fairly annoyance free compared to Dropbox/iCloud.

I really only treat these cloud storage services as a sync and as an additional convenience backup. I don't ever think of them as primary storage.

Box is another popular one, which has SSO and other options to allow it's use in more restricted environments. It's at about the same annoyance level as OneDeive.

This guy mentions Drop Box being good in 2012...that's when I stopped using it due to the various bloat and annoyances.

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