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I'm kind of surprised I've struggled with this so long. Right now I've been using nextcloud camera upload, and mostly it works ok but shits the bed once in a while without me noticing and I need to spend time fixing it and it's never as simple as turning it off and on again.

I recently tried syncthing, and while it works, it frequently crashed and got stuck in a state where it says it's on and working by my destination folder is shown as disconnected, and the options to restart syncthing from the side menu are greyed out and the only way to make it work again is by force closing it and reopening it.

I'm running vanilla stock Google Android and truenas, does anyone have a better solution?

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've had nothing but issues with NC instant upload, and stopped using it. It's error prone and needs constant hand holding for no good reason. It didn't handle taking a picture and then deleting it instantly very well (and will throw your notifications at you for this, often more than 1). When you have limited connectivity it will utterly confuse itself and ask you to resolve conflicts for 100 files for no reason, when it could just checksum server and client files and notice they are all the exact same. Also when set to only upload on WiFi, and not being connected to WiFi it often still spams notifications that the "upload failed", despite not being supposed to upload anything. And btw. it could upload files just fine, they failed only because upload on mobile is disabled!

It's a nightmare. Commonly also referred to as a cluster fuck.