Looking for a self-hosted file share tool
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@guyinpv seafile
been using it here for quite a while.
each user here has an upload link i store in active directory and it is added to each user's signature.
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@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:
@guyinpv I have never seen this issue.
I have been using ownCloud since version 7 and switched to Nextcloud with version 10/11.
The steps to reproduce it are at the top of this bug report: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/3502
I'd be curious if you tried it. The very last comment on that bug report is a person on version 13 who experienced it. And I did too, on 13.0.1.
The main difference with me is that I used the group folders plugin which, I believe, makes use of the NextCloud ability to connect to external storage. So I'm not sure if this is a bug with normal shares, or only when involving external storage shares.
Whatever the case, if anybody reads any of this, I would definitely stay away from the group folder plugin.
Reading that thread, Group folders are a problem in general.
So blow it out and start over without that app.
It looks like manual clean up was possible by moving the files around while subsequently clicking on things in the GUI.
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What I did by deleting rows in the filecache table referencing the group share seemed to work. I just can't be sure there aren't any other pieces or references anywhere else in the DB. Hoping it doesn't lead to bugs later if there are still leftovers.
@jame_s said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:
@guyinpv seafile
been using it here for quite a while.
each user here has an upload link i store in active directory and it is added to each user's signature.
I tested it for a while on our internal server. I had a heck of a time getting clients to connect though, lots of troubleshooting routing, DNS, ports, etc, was never really stable. Perhaps it would be better on some VPS instead of internal. But there are other reasons I didn't go with it, like pricing model. Some info on that here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/9882/why-would-you-chose-nextcloud-over-seafile/17
Seafile had some great concepts, the desktop tool was pretty nice, fast sync. But it's not quite what I was looking for.
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Speaking of deleting cache entries. This seems to be what the occ command is for
occ files:cleanup.
It even reports that way:
0 orphaned file cache entries deleted"orphaned file cache entries" seems like exactly what I found, it had orphaned entries for the group share folder. When I deleted them, that seemed to me to be "deleting orphaned file cache entries."
So I guess, maybe the
files:cleanuptool is not functional or is where the bug really lies if it's not working?It wouldn't help to put this in a cron job if it doesn't work anyway.
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@guyinpv odd, i have had no issues with clients, everything is done via https. as far as pricing goes, i use the free version and have about 30 users. no stability issues whatsoever.
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@jame_s said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:
@guyinpv odd, i have had no issues with clients, everything is done via https. as far as pricing goes, i use the free version and have about 30 users. no stability issues whatsoever.
Isn't the free version limited to 3 users?
I'm sure a lot of my issues were from trying to run it on an internal server. Doing https and dealing with virtual networking and routing and everything didn't pan out. Probably could do it better on a cloud VPS.
Regardless, NextCloud does have a couple advantages over SeaFile, but that goes the other way around too so..... pick your poison!
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@guyinpv community edition is unlimited and we had no use for the extra pro features, but yes, horses for courses.
