[OT] Working with Android devices

[Bob Sneidar]

I use it too on Richards advice. Just a note of caution: If you sync your device with a Nextcloud device, the Nextcloud device considers itself as the master, and your device as a backup. That means that if you then tell the Nextcloud interface to exclude a folder that has already been synced, it will DELETE THE FOLDER FROM YOUR DEVICE!!! 

I've gone around and around with the devs about this, and in their view this is how it ought to be. There is a long thread about this in their forums with a lot of people chiming in with the same degree dismay and consternation as I had, and so far as I can tell, there is no intention to change this model. 

There have been some suggestions about consoling into the nextcloud device and changing some parameters, or a future update adding an option to prevent Nextcloud from treating it's own copy of a folder as the master repository. I only say that to say this: be VERY CAREFUL about how you set up your initial folder syncs. DO NOT THINK sync an entire folder, *then* go back and exclude some folders. This will cause you to lose data. If you need to sync a subset of folders, create a separate sync for each of those folders. 

Bob S


> On Sep 14, 2018, at 09:26 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Peter W A Wood wrote:
> 
> > I have recently got an Android tablet and am seeking advice on how
> > best to work with it in general, not so much with Livecode yet. My
> > main machine is a Mac. I would like to be able to easily swap files
> > with the Android tablet via wifi and to remotely login to it from
> > the Mac.
> 
> How I share files (and a whole lot more) between all my computing devices:
> 
> https://www.nextcloud.com/
> 
> For my own use I have Nextcloud installed on a small server in my office.  For sharing with clients I have another on a VPS.  Nextcloud lets me sync with any number of servers, with fine-grained control over what's synced and what's excluded.  Native clients available for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web