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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36410134

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36348624

I am running grapheneos and got nc from fdroid if it matters. I also use nc on my local network only.

So I could not find logs that pointed to any specific file giving the errors. Still I took the advice that it might have to do with file names. That made me suspect it had to do with my music folder which has some foreign music, so i renamed files with a special character. So far it seems that was it. This was odd because those files have been there and synced for a while, but the message was not happening until recently. Still wanted to update in case someone else has this issue there is some resolution that might be helpful.

So I couldn't really find what are the offending filenames, but they were from the music folder. I guess I didn't mention that that was the most recent folder I set as a two way sync. I get most of my music from yt-dl and naturally wanted to have it on both my laptop and phone. I since have discovered Power Ampache 2 . It is a music player and it can just stream and download your music on your Next Cloud. So far it works well and I have no more errors regarding filenames as I no longer need the Next Cloud app to do a two way sync.

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[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This is the way! Slowly replace Nextcloud components with better things until you're no longer dependent on it

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As someone who uses nextcloud exclusively for calDAV and cardDAV, what replacements are recommended?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

+1 for radicale. It just sits there and works.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

https://github.com/tchapi/davis uses the same library as nextcloud (and basically every other Foss calendar app) and just tries to wrap an admin interface around it.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm not the right person to ask this question as these 2 are the only reason I haven't nuked Nextcloud yet. Looked at Radicale but shared calendars look like a nightmare to set up. But in the era of LLMs, I may just have one of them set it all up and migrate it for me.

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree. In principle Nextcloud is a great idea and project but it has a lot of issues that make maintaining a pain. I had it for over 2 years and at every update it was painfull. I gave up and moved to Syncthing+Radicale. Is there something I miss? Yes, the ability to share as Syncthing doesn't allow sharing.

[–] sicco@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

The trick is to wait several point releases before updating. This makes it much more stable.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Syncthing doesn’t allow sharing Like, between users? You can set up a shared folder with that user, although I know it's not the same.

I've recently been made aware of Copyparty, which is a web GUI for serving files, with great access control, and the main dev reported people have been running it over a Syncthing-synced directory without any issues. Has an Android app too. I don't have any need for sharing over HTTP right now, but if I did, that would be my go-to.

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Documentation is impressive. I need to take a look. Thanks for sharing.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Copyparty is clearly labor of love, some UI choices are questionable, but the docs and the ease of setup are amazing

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What to use for Calendar and Contacts management?
Yes I know about Radicale, I'm talking desktop UI wise because fuck doing any substantial event organizing on a phone.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

I would like to know too, that's the last reason why i still have to host that forsaken piece of software.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I use Vivaldi's built in calendar as the UI to Radicale.

Just a suggestion

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What should I use if I just want dumb file storage that is accesible from any device (linux/windows/android) remotely? I'm already self hosting a media server if that matters

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you don't need a web GUI, just WebDAV is a good protocol, nginx can serve files over it. SFTP is good too.

Here's a tutorial for WebDAV / Docker, it boils down to one command. No databases, performance issues, security nightmares.

https://sfuhrm.de/building-your-own-secure-webdav-server-with-docker/

"The image is only around 5.3 MB in size and the container takes around 10 MB of memory."

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

This looks nice, thank you

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] marius@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

CloudAfterNsxt

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Depends on which functions of NC you're using.

Personally, I found thst no-one used the gallery, calendar or contacts apps in NC, so I replaced it all with radicale and syncthing.

But if you're using all the collaboration stuff, then you'll need to look into it a bit more.

For me, NC was way overkill, nightmare to maintain and an extra layer of software (ie vulnerabilities) exposed to the interwebs thst I didn't need

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

I moved to Syncthing. Some people say Seafile is good.