Post ASuHiD4AgDHo41FUIK by samloonie@mstdn.ca
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(DIR) Post #ASuGmrKAqLAq7tO3Xc by john@sauropods.win
2023-02-21T14:13:19Z
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Does anyone have experience with #NextCloud or #Seafile? I'm looking to move away from Dropbox, and need something that works reliably with a fairly large amount of data (1-2tb) and multi gigabyte files. Needs to work with Mac and iOS (although I think iOS can access SFTP natively through the Files app, which might be fine.)#filesync
(DIR) Post #ASuHiD4AgDHo41FUIK by samloonie@mstdn.ca
2023-02-21T14:23:38Z
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@john I signed up at pCloud. It has more than one way to access one's storage. I'm on Linux, but I see there is an iOS client.
(DIR) Post #ASuK6BtQtRJxHdmxrk by john@sauropods.win
2023-02-21T14:50:29Z
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@samloonie I was talking to someone that other day that said it was struggling with large files - has that been your experience?
(DIR) Post #ASuNp5gf75QEvhuuWG by samloonie@mstdn.ca
2023-02-21T15:32:07Z
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@john I don't seem to have tried it with anything over about 250 megabytes. How big did you have in mind? I could try experimenting some more. It provides several ways to access it: a virtual drive, a shadow of a directory (like Dropbox), web browser access, and some single file thing I haven't tried yet. I spent last week experimenting with Syncthing, which does file sharing between devices without "cloud" storage. It's like Dropbox between friends.
(DIR) Post #ASufWYTXeXt3t85iIy by john@sauropods.win
2023-02-21T18:50:32Z
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@samloonie I have a couple of hundred files over 2gb, so it would have to work with them pretty smoothly. I also wouldn’t want it to break on very large files like renders, which might get up to I guess 50gb, but that’s less crucial.
(DIR) Post #ASuuxEJ6FGsKT5NtsO by samloonie@mstdn.ca
2023-02-21T21:43:19Z
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@john My ISP gives me 150 megabits per second down and about 30 up. I did a copy of a 2.3 gigabyte file to the virtual drive and poked around the virtual drive while it was being transferred. It seemed to behave smoothly. My math must be off because it was faster than I expected. Using it in the mode where it copies a local directory to the cloud is probably better. I've had the virtual drive mount point freeze my home directory access up for a timeout when the network failed.
(DIR) Post #ASy24PxIcLgbm8RSF6 by casraf@fosstodon.org
2023-02-23T09:47:20Z
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@johnNextCloud works great, they have cross platform apps or you can just use WebDAV
(DIR) Post #ASy9jv1ughTHheKuvI by john@sauropods.win
2023-02-23T11:13:07Z
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@casraf I've read in some places that it can have problems with syncing many large files, which I'm worried about, because I have many large files!
(DIR) Post #ASyMF3KL5VQtraZDlY by casraf@fosstodon.org
2023-02-23T13:33:19Z
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@johnI came across one issue but it was because I didn't set up my server to allow large requests. Once I upped the file transfer/post body size limits I had no such issue, though I think the largest I tried was about 9GB. I set the limit to 16 arbitrarily but that can be higher, I think. I have a gist with nginx conf somewhere if that helps.
(DIR) Post #ASyNL5jLAJh30ahkLA by john@sauropods.win
2023-02-23T13:45:40Z
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@casraf Good to know, I'll definitely give it a go.
(DIR) Post #ASycNSdkSO7zxBg1kO by john@sauropods.win
2023-02-23T16:34:04Z
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@atomdmac yeah, Photoshop files are the common big ones. But I currently use Dropbox to sync pretty much all my files, so I want a replacement for that.
(DIR) Post #ATOJP5VzEpak1DK8Dg by kirt@mstdn.science
2023-03-08T02:03:59Z
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@john what's wrong with Dropbox?cc @TashTaylor @Slothy and other mes @kirt@mastodon.social @kirt@forall.social @kirt@ecoevo.social
(DIR) Post #ATPBTk83ZbCAfDncJc by john@sauropods.win
2023-03-08T12:09:56Z
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@kirt@mstdn.science @TashTaylor @Slothy @kirt@mastodon.social @kirt@forall.social @kirt@ecoevo.social There’s list of changes here, and they aren’t good: https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes