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I attempted to update Nextcloud and failed spectacularly. Need to rebuild our family calendars now.
Look into radicale if that's you're using NC as a DAV server - and everyone's using their phone as a client
It's so simple & lightweight (but admittedly the webgui is admin only - no visible calendar)
Of all the nightmare rebuilds, nextcloud scares me the most. I have backup images of that machine laying around like drink coasters.
I've had next cloud break on me before and it runs slow, so I switched to Seafile instead for files, but actually Seafile scares me even more than next cloud because at least next cloud saves files on disk as files you can copy out to somewhere else if you need to access them (I'm not above emergency scp of important files to get the files I need).
Seafile uses some binary format that means I can only get files in and out through the Web interface. If Seafile breaks, I'm SOL to recover data to somewhere else and need to be able to get a working backup or fix it. I can't just scp files to a local machine to work on them.
@Coolcoder360 @lemming741 seafile has a fuse extension, at least: https://manual.seafile.com/latest/extension/fuse/
That said, I switched from seafile to syncthing and never looked back. Turns out I didn't really need the web interface.
Thanks for the info! Tbh I never looked into extensions, honestly like 90% of the point was to get the hundreds of photos off my phone and into somewhere else.
But I'll have to look into that.
Honestly syncthing was very attractive at first, and then I went for next cloud because it looked to me more complete and more full. I'm trying to find something my wife could possibly also use, so next cloud having online editing with collabora was nice to try to have it feel like Google docs, but since I'm migrating away from that then maybe sync thing is worth a try too.