Feature like Dropbox's share link directly from W10 explorer in a self
hosted app?
reddit / selfhosted

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pewpewpostit · 2023-12-21 22:06

Is there an app I could take a look at that syncs local W10 folders
and offers the share link feature? I've been looking at Filebrowser
but that's only a filebrowser and doesn't sync with like Dropbox does
does it?

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zfa · 2023-12-21 22:10

>  but that's only a filebrowser and doesn't sync with like Dropbox
does does it?

Correct but I've run FileBrowser with Syncthing used to sync
underlying dirs for a long time and it works really well.

In my case I have shitty home upload speeds to a syncthing my
'sharing' Windows folder to my VPS and have FB run there for folk to
access tuff via. Worked like a charm with no maintenance (unless I've
broken it myself) for years.

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pewpewpostit · 2023-12-21 22:23

Thanks for the reply! So in your case you let Syncthing sync and then
go in the filebrowser web ui to create a link?

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zfa · 2023-12-21 22:42

Yeah. TBH most stuff is just left in FB dirs and people have access to
the whole lot, but I do sometimes use the 'create share' and send
people direct links for ad-hoc files.

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pewpewpostit · 2023-12-21 22:43

Alright thanks, I'll look into that.

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Fun-Development-7268 · 2023-12-22 09:41

Actually Nextcloud with the client app does this.

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quinyd · 2023-12-23 12:10

Both nextcloud and Seafile should be able to do this.