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[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 > And again, I must caution that any local folders set to sync with a
 > nextCloud device, if you then uncheck a subfolder, it will REMOVE THE
 > LOCAL SUBFOLDER! The NextCloud people figured that the NextCloud
 > device must become the master, and your own local files the slave.

Ah, but there's the rub: the concepts of "master" and "slave" do not 
apply to peer syncing systems.

Whether the behavior is correct or not depends on the use-case.  Most 
other sync systems avoid the question altogether by completely 
disallowing subfolder control. So if you want the same, limit your use 
of the options Nextcloud provides - just don't change the checkbox for 
subfolders.

If you do choose to fine-tune your settings for subfolders, for the last 
several years the implications for the choice are described when you 
click the checkbox, requiring confirmation. If that's not what you want 
for your use case, the easiest solution (with any sync system) is to 
just move the folder outside of the one you've designated for syncing.

If this specific scenario is of interest, and simply moving the folder 
isn't an option, these discussions will lend insight into the 
seemingly-simple-but-really-quite-nuanced behavior:

https://help.nextcloud.com/t/unchecked-folders-will-be-removed-from-your-file-system/12335/18

https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/2502

Sync is one of those things that seems simple on the surface, and 
usually is for most users, but there are enough edge cases that good 
sync is rare and good flexible sync even rarer.

Having used Dropbox and Google Drive before moving my important stuff to 
Nextcloud, I've found not only more control over what gets synced and 
how, but also fewer conflict files than I used to see.

All that said....


The real point of my post was to draw attention to the very useful 
WebDAV library bangkok posted from Matthias Rebbe:

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=32377&p=188319#p188099

      You can :
      -upload a file
      -download a file
      -create a folder
      -delete a folder/file
      -list the content of a folder (method PROPFIND)

You can use this to talk to ANY server using the popular WebDAV standard.

You can make custom workgroup solutions for a wide range of services, 
including PCloud and Google Drive, or with custom servers running the 
WebDAV modules available for Apache, Lightttpd, NginX, and more.

The nice thing about also considering Nextcloud in the mix of platforms 
you might support with this library is that you have a ready audience of 
an estimated 250,000 installs, including many governments, universities, 
and both large and small businesses.  Extra bonus points that it has a 
nice UI for user management right in the box, and a thriving community 
of plugins extending it in new ways.

I'm excited about what it's doing for my business today, and how I can 
lend that experience to helping other businesses with custom tools made 
in LiveCode tomorrow.

WebDAV is kinda cool.  And thanks to Matthias' library, it's also fun.

--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems



 >> On Mar 4, 2020, at 22:58 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
 >>
 >> Useful for Anyone to Know:
 >> -------------------------
 >> I've raved about Nextcloud here enough that I'll bet Mark Wieder's 
tired of it <g>, so I'll try to not let me enthusiasm run away with me - 
I could go on about Nextcloud for way more than anyone wants to read.
 >>
 >> It's like a blend of Dropbox, Google Docs, and more than a hundred 
add-on apps for everything from a kanban tool to media streaming to 
videoconferencing - all free and open source:
 >>
 >> https://nextcloud.com/
 >>
 >> I use one internallt, to sync my LiveCode plugins folder across my 
machines, as well as some client projects. And I use another externally 
as a client portal where we share files, a kanban board, etc.
 >>
 >> If you can set up an Apache Server under Ubuntu on a VPS, adding 
Nextcloud is as easy as a one-line Snap call.
 >>
 >> If you're not yet comfortable wrangling servers, there are many 
companies offering hosting listed at the site.
 >>
 >> Nextcloud's file repository is a WebDAV server, which makes it a 
perfect compliment to something that showed up in our community just the 
other day:
 >