[kwlug-disc] Nextcloud, ownCloud, ...etc

[CrankyOldBugger]

I've been running Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi 5 for a few months now.
While I like the overall look and feel of it, the little glitches leave me
nervous.

For example, the phone (Android) client has failed to connect for some time
now.  I'm following a fairly active discussion online where quite a number
of other people are having the same problem (the Nextcloud client says "no
internet connection available" or something like that).

The main dashboard on the web app is very slow to update.  Many calendar
appointments get completely missed as the calendar module just doesn't read
my google calendar consistently.

I have found that updating either the main program on the Pi, or the
clients on my desktop is too risky to do.  More than once I've ended up
repaving the Pi and just installing the latest version of N/C from scratch.

Backups for the Pi fail over 90% of the time.

Now is this because I'm running on a Raspi?  I don't know.  I haven't run
the base N/C on a server or desktop, at least not in this decade.

Long story short, N/C is still running on one of my Raspis because I don't
have anything else for that Raspi to do.  But N/C is not my main go-to for
calendar, or any of the other apps anymore.


On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 01:33, Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another updoot for Immich.  I found the photo/video upload for Nextcloud a
> little lacking, the Android App often failed in its sync tasks, or missed
> files, and there was no way to manually 'sync all now', you just had to
> trust (hope) that it was running.
>
> Immich has been rock solid, and if you wander into the Android app, you
> can tell it to run the Sync manually if issues occur.
>
> I currently use both, however.  Nextcloud is strictly for file sync
> between laptops, desktops and phones.  Immich is just for my
> photos/videos, and it's shared via reverse proxy, (and some other security
> measures), so I can share Albums out to friends on the interwebs.
>
> It was also easier to import all the photos from the year 2000 onwards,
> from all the varied digital cameras I've owned and include those pictures
> in my local users (family) accounts.  This way, when we go somewhere, and
> return with a bunch of photos, I just upload them and everyone can see them
> in their timeline.
>
> Currently running Immich as an App in TrueNAS Scale 25.x.
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM Ron <ron at bclug.ca> wrote:
>
>> Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote on 2025-10-26 17:00:
>>
>> > I see no need to have these files in nextcloud.
>>
>> The idea being, single storage location, immich for viewing, NextCloud
>> for sharing.
>>
>> Maybe immich supports sharing links?
>>
>> NC has quite a robust sharing feature already.
>>
>>
>> > If disaster strikes and the immich app is unusable, it stored all my
>> > photos in date-stamped directories with original filenames:
>> >
>> > library/cirwin/2025/2025-10-26/PXL_20251026_193329833.MP.jpg
>>
>> Auto-upload can place images into YYYY or YYYY/MM folders, but I don't
>> think that happens with bulk uploads from ~/Pictures or whichever. Not
>> sure, never used the desktop sync.
>>
>> So, that's a nice feature for immich - saves programmatically moving
>> things around, for sure.
>>
>>
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