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Ok I need some help with NextCloud

What I'm trying to do seems very simple, but it's driving me crazy and I'm almost certain that this is why I gave up on this last time:

I want to have a folder on my Mac, where whenever I drop something in it, it syncs to the NextCloud server at a specified location, then I can DELETE it from my Mac, and it STAYS on the server.

The only option I seem to have is full sync, which essentially defeats the entire purpose of external storage. I *know* there has to be a way to do this, but having set it up a couple of different ways from both my Embassy side and from my Mac side, I always get the same result, which is really unnerving because having all my stuff get deleted is the very thing I'm trying to avoid.

Any help will be greatly zapped.

Vlady 2y ago

It sounds like you need a backup solution. Nextcloud syncs to make sure folders are the same. What you are describing exists in Syncthing. It has a mode to copy to a client and never delete.

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Guy Swann 2y ago

sigh... so i need something completely different?

Dr. Hax 2y ago

I'm a huge Nextcloud fan and run a server for my local community, but yeah I think you probably do, given your use case.

If you can share a little more about how you want to use it, maybe we can find something that'd be a better fit.

Do you want to access these files on other computers, phones, tablets, etc.?

Do you want to share them with others?

These are both things Nextcloud does well but backups do not accomplish. It's possible you want both.