any Nextcloud experts?

[Phil Marsh]

Hi Aaron, I'm wondering if I should just scrap Nextcloud and go to
Syncthing. I suspect Syncthing would be simpler and more robust and I
wouldn't be wasting disk space on having both the original data and
Nextcloud's version of the data on the same server. What do you use for
filesync across machines? thanks,
Phil

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM Aaron D. Johnson <adj at fnord.greeley.co.us>
wrote:

> Phil Marsh writes:
> > My Nextcloud installation has decided to fail.  The server works
> > fine but I find now that there is no way to run the sync tool on the
> > same machine that the Nextcloud server is running on.  All kinds of
> > weird errors and I cannot sync files on the machine that Nextcloud
> > is running on.  Remote syncing works fine, but Nextcloud is useless
> > to me if I cannot run the sync tool on the same machine as the
> > server.
>
> I know nothing of Nextcloud.  But if you have specific error messages
> in log files, from the clients, or elsewhere, then the hive mind might
> be able to offer some specific advice.
>
> Also, I'm cofused.  The last time Nextcloud was mentioned on the NCLUG
> list was October 2023 and you had decided against using it?
>
> Regardless, though, sharing actual error messages would be the first
> step in getting help.
>
> - Aaron
>
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