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I moved from next cloud to syncthing some months back. I had nextcloud as an app for Truenas scale. Several times after app dates, next cloud would stop running and would have to setup up everything again.

Syncthing is OK but 2 things annoy me:

A. I get huge amounts of conflict file generated that use up space

B. File sharing with family is complicated. I tried to setup a share account that everyone uses but as syncthing works with device ids, it refuses two accounts from the same machine. I share my Linux laptop with my wife. We each have our own linux account. I've got syncthing running but can't even get my wife's account to sync because I get errors that device I'd already exists.

I don't want to go back to next cloud just for file sharing. I don't generally like the idea of relying on one service for multiple objectives (calendar, file sharing, etc.).

Is there a way to get syncthing to do what I want?

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[–] WIPocket@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Well, fortunately it still works. Also, it seems like the forked version did not stop development.