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Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#91

Post by Toutouxc »

ecf wrote: post #73
kethinov wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto. The sudden inability to mount Google Drive to a folder instead of a separate volume in macOS finally got me to get off my ass and migrate to a self-hosted Nextcloud, something which honestly was pretty far down on my to-do list, so if Google hadn't made Google Drive so much more unusable out of nowhere then they could have continued harvesting data from me for who knows how much longer. They had to put in effo…

You won’t regret setting it up. I was hesitant at first as well but three years later with zero-downtime and 100% auto-update success I can honestly say I’ve spent less than 30 minutes administering it. Currently have it running on DO with daily droplet snapshots and it’s a nice reassurance that wherever happens, I can get back to a working state and never lose any data.

The prices of block storage on DO are pretty steep, I'm seeing $50 a month for 500 GB..? Am I missing something?

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#93

Post by tambourine_man »

Use rclone and be happy.

Seriously, I haven't tried Google Drive for Desktop but I won't even bother, given their track record.

Rclone is simply amazing, the developers are responsive, it supports every backend on the planet. It's a single lightweight binary written in Go, runs on Linux, Mac, Win, x86 and ARM, every feature you could ever need, thoroughly documented… oh, and open source. I mean, what else could one want?

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#94

Post by hamandcheese »

tambourine_man wrote: post #93

Use rclone and be happy. Seriously, I haven't tried Google Drive for Desktop but I won't even bother, given their track record. Rclone is simply amazing, the developers are responsive, it supports every backend on the planet. It's a single lightweight binary written in Go, runs on Linux, Mac, Win, x86 and ARM, every feature you could ever need, thoroughly documented… oh, and open source. I mean, what else could one w…

Looking at the rclone feature set, it’s not clear if it provides a daemon to continuously synchronize a folder. I imagine that this is high up on the list of what “normal users” care about.

For power users, though, rclone does look quite nice.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#95

Post by ecf »

Toutouxc wrote: post #91
ecf wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You won’t regret setting it up. I was hesitant at first as well but three years later with zero-downtime and 100% auto-update success I can honestly say I’ve spent less than 30 minutes administering it. Currently have it running on DO with daily droplet snapshots and it’s a nice reassurance that wherever happens, I can get back to a working state and never lose any data.

The prices of block storage on DO are pretty steep, I'm seeing $50 a month for 500 GB..? Am I missing something?

My storage requirements are low and I’m currently using the 25gb or so of space that comes with the droplet. Unfortunately I can’t comment much on a Nextcloud setup with block storage.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#96

Post by bayindirh »

kethinov wrote: post #71
bushbaba wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I now refuse to use google products. The constant XYZ is deprecated now use this new thing that doesn’t fully work is tiring. And Drive is one of their enterprise products.

Ditto. The sudden inability to mount Google Drive to a folder instead of a separate volume in macOS finally got me to get off my ass and migrate to a self-hosted Nextcloud, something which honestly was pretty far down on my to-do list, so if Google hadn't made Google Drive so much more unusable out of nowhere then they could have continued harvesting data from me for who knows how much longer. They had to put in effo…

We use Nextcloud at the office. It works really well.

On the other hand, I pulled the trigger and got myself a developer license for insync. That’s a great client for Google drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

I was hesitant at first, but it works really well, and they have some neat features (ignore patterns, out of tree syncing, directory merge, etc.)

They have added Dropbox support lately.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#97

Post by rkagerer »

bayindirh wrote: post #96
kethinov wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto. The sudden inability to mount Google Drive to a folder instead of a separate volume in macOS finally got me to get off my ass and migrate to a self-hosted Nextcloud, something which honestly was pretty far down on my to-do list, so if Google hadn't made Google Drive so much more unusable out of nowhere then they could have continued harvesting data from me for who knows how much longer. They had to put in effo…

We use Nextcloud at the office. It works really well. On the other hand, I pulled the trigger and got myself a developer license for insync. That’s a great client for Google drive and Microsoft OneDrive. I was hesitant at first, but it works really well, and they have some neat features (ignore patterns, out of tree syncing, directory merge, etc.) They have added Dropbox support lately.

How solid and reliable is conflict handling on Nextcloud (especially edge cases)?

I did extensive testing on this before adopting Dropbox, but am looking for an alternative now that Dropbox seems to be locking files and plastering ads for their other services instead of working unobtrusively in the background.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#98

Post by contravariant »

pedro2 wrote: post #14

Google Backup & Sync is being replaced by Google Drive for Desktop, née Google [Drive] File Stream. Unlike Dropbox, where filenames are searchable by name on Everything, here that doesn't seem to happen -- at least the indexing takes more than 15 minutes with UI frozen. An interesting tidbit: Google Filestream allows mounting on a folder. Google Drive for Desktop doesn't support it yet. Another interesting tidbit: th…

I'd be happy if I could just stop it placing "desktop.ini" files in every fscking folder.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#99

Post by bayindirh »

rkagerer wrote: post #97
bayindirh wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use Nextcloud at the office. It works really well. On the other hand, I pulled the trigger and got myself a developer license for insync. That’s a great client for Google drive and Microsoft OneDrive. I was hesitant at first, but it works really well, and they have some neat features (ignore patterns, out of tree syncing, directory merge, etc.) They have added Dropbox support lately.

How solid and reliable is conflict handling on Nextcloud (especially edge cases)? I did extensive testing on this before adopting Dropbox, but am looking for an alternative now that Dropbox seems to be locking files and plastering ads for their other services instead of working unobtrusively in the background.

While we use a big share with 10+ users, I personally didn't get many conflicts during the Nextcloud installation's lifetime. I got a couple of "You changed this in two computers, and I need to sync both" states, and it duplicated the files with appending the hostname or something else useful. At the end, I either merged them myself or thought "meh, this copy is not needed anymore, anyway" and deleted one of them.

If other users got any conflicts, and got anything borked, I'd have known, since I'm the admin of the installation. However I can't guarantee anything. I think it's working reasonably well for other people, too.

It has some mitigation strategies, and has a pretty extensive list of transient files (like Microsoft Word lock files), so everything works pretty straightforward for us.

It's creating far less problems than I expected, though.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

#100

Post by benhurmarcel »

Toutouxc wrote: post #91
ecf wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You won’t regret setting it up. I was hesitant at first as well but three years later with zero-downtime and 100% auto-update success I can honestly say I’ve spent less than 30 minutes administering it. Currently have it running on DO with daily droplet snapshots and it’s a nice reassurance that wherever happens, I can get back to a working state and never lose any data.

The prices of block storage on DO are pretty steep, I'm seeing $50 a month for 500 GB..? Am I missing something?

There are cheap Nextcloud instance available elsewhere, such as Hetzner.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

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