I am seeing an issue with nextcloud not syncing a file within the folder that should automatically two-way sync. I have found that the file needs to be uploaded to nextcloud in order for syncing to happen, but once it is uploaded, it syncs normally when two way sync is enabled. I don’t think that has anything to do with you’re issues, but it’s food for thought.
It should be saving the file you open to that folder, then. It needs a local copy in some capacity for you to edit it, and that’s where it should be at. Once you’re done editing, it should upload automatically. I should also note that I’m using the F-droid version of nextcloud on android, they did have to make changes to the play store version due to syncing policies from google messing things up.
I both open from nextcloud and from the folder. I did just check my settings, and I have two-way folder sync on the folder that I edit locally. Everything seems to update correctly if it was opened through nextcloud regardless of which folder it’s in, but only the folder I have sync setup on my phone updates if edited locally and only every 15 minutes. I’ll test some more things and check if something isn’t working as I expect. I did notice some settings had been changed and I wasn’t uploading from my phone as expected, so I have some confirmations to do on my end before I can absolutely confirm my phone is working properly.
As far as desktop goes though, I haven’t had any issues with it being unable to sync.
I’m on opensuse/fedora/Debian and haven’t noticed any issues. Libreoffice for my office suite on all of those. Collabora office (not through nextcloud) on my phone.
I have disabled nextcloud office and CODE server because of the troubles it gave me. So all my edits are directly to the the file itself, even on mobile, using a separate editor.
I’ve not had any issues with file syncing on desktop. Android has a few issues due to google screwing with permissions and making it unable to sync all file types through nextcloud, but I don’t recall having any issues with collabora on my phone syncing. Nextcloud does seem to have full file sync permissions in it’s android/media/etc. folder, and that’s where I open my documents from, so if you’re not opening your files from there, maybe that’s the issue.
I’ve rarely had nextcloud office work well, to the point that I’ve given up. That said, it’s supposed to work through the web interface to properly track different users and changes like a google doc. Opening up the file in libreoffice/collabora on desktop is a different process and works just as normally opening a file on your computer, including creating the lock files. I don’t think there’s a way to use a desktop office suite with nextcloud office to leverage the collaborative aspect of it.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think any collaborative office suite has figured that out without it actually being a web app disguised as a desktop app.
The lock file is there to prevent another person from opening up the document at the same time as you, when you save the document in your desktop app, close it then let it sync, is the document still wiped or are you and you open it with the correct changes on your other devices?
I’ve become much more selective with my video quality. I’ve found that 480p encoded from a raw source produces pretty acceptable quality, anything that isn’t made to be eye candy I’ll encode myself from a raw file down to 480p. There have been many things that have been very hard to find, so I feel it’s more important that they exist, rather than be in the highest definition possible. Quality of pixels is more important that quantity of pixels.
Same. I use these drives in a mirrored setup or to hold data that’s replaceable. If they make it a few months without showing errors they might get entrusted to something more important. I’ll shell out for a new drive for my constantly in use drives, luckily I read the warning signs and bought a few 20tb HDDs when ram and SSDs started skyrocketing. I’m kicking myself for not grabbing a few backup m.2 nvme and 2.5" SSDs, because I’m already doing the hardrive shuffle in my mini PCs. I’m fine living life with networked rusty spinners, but I really really don’t want to go back to spinny boot/high throughput drives.
Nextcloud has worked wonderfully for pretty much everything except for the office suite, which almost never works, I’ve heard AIO runs it fine. I’ve just had more useful luck with collabora on my phone and libreoffice on desktop that I’m not willing to fuss about to try and get it to work for the fifth time just for it to break again.
As for installation, I went the nextcloudpi route on a normal PC and haven’t really had any issues that weren’t my own fault. The biggest struggle I had was figuring out what packages I needed to install on a minimal Debian install before I could successfully run the installer.
I did spin up a nextcloudpi lxc container on proxmox since I’m expecting to containerize it in the future and it just started up perfectly along with the normal office suite issues.
Suspiciously so (͡•_ ͡• )
Saturday morning: “Incus and podman seem interesting. I bet I could swap everything over while the family is out this afternoon”
Sunday evening: “Dad, when will the lights work again?”
Debian for servers, fedora/opensuse for desktop. I like Debian on server because it’s slow to change and every how-to will pretty much work with very little need for delving deeper. I used opensuse for a server for a little bit, but it was mostly an exercise in seeing how much I actually understood linux since there’s almost no directions for opensuse anywhere, so you really need to know how it works and translate instructions for other distros to it. I was using Tumbleweed and at one point there was an update that broke my networking that I couldn’t figure out, I wasn’t running anything really important on it, so instead of doing the instruction translation thing all over again for Leap (OK, I did actually do it, but I was already thinking of shutting it down and did a few months afterwards), I just took what I needed off of it, shut it down and moved the scraps onto my debian server.
I’ve used Debian for desktop as well and had zero complaints, it’s a little behind on updates because stability is more important. I’d actually put on par with a real enterprise distro, rather than the community testing ones like you get with Fedora and opensuse. Boring, does what it’s supposed to, misses a lot of vulnerabilities because they’ve already been fixed. All the new cool features that get added to everything shows up next release.
I liked Fedora a lot, it’s pretty really solid workstation (I use the KDE version, I’ve hated gnome with a passion since 3) but I’m not a fan of the direction IBM seems to be dragging redhat, so I’ve been transitioning to opensuse on desktop. Opensuse is pretty on par with Fedora, just a little different, but there are a few things that aren’t available of you need vendor software because they test on Debian and Fedora, release a .deb and .rpm and that’s the end of it. I keep a fedora VM around for one off packages that don’t work in opensuse or aren’t available. I’m taking some online courses, so the fedora VM is mostly used for the weird things my university requires that I can still use Linux for, and a windows VM for when things get real bad, which I haven’t actually used after the “learn to use Microsoft office” course.
I don’t do any gaming anymore or use any special purpose software for my normal use, so it doesn’t really matter to me which flavor I use. Except that I dislike gnome 3 because I have preferences that don’t fit the developers idea of hire a use should use their computer, and xfce because…I don’t really know, probably the right-click menu thing, I have no good reason.